Latin
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: ''Archidioecesis Bituricensis'';
French
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: ''Archidiocèse de Bourges'') is an
archdiocese
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History
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of the
Latin Rite
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in
France
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Cher
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and
Indre
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in the
Region
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Bourges Cathedral
Bourges Cathedral (French: ''Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges'') is a Roman Catholic church located in Bourges, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen and is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. Built atop an earlier Romanesque ...
stands in the city of
Bourges
Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry.
History
The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, ...
Cher
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. Although this is still titled as an Archdiocese, it ceased as a metropolitan see in 2002 and is now a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of Tours.
In 2002 it lost its
metropolitan
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* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
function (and thus the archbishop no longer wears the
pallium
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), its province having ceased to exist (the province had already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had initially corresponded -
Albi
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had been erected as an archbishopric in the medieval context of heresiological conflict;
Blois
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With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...
- historically dependent on
Sens
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Sens is a sub-prefecture and the second city of the department, the sixth in the region. It is crossed by the Yonne and t ...
- had been attached to
Paris
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, from which they passed to Bourges in the 1960s). The Archdiocese (also the three above- mentioned sees) is now suffragan to the
Archdiocese of Tours
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; other dioceses until recently dependent on Bourges are now suffragans of the Clermont-Ferrand Archdiocese. Historical ecclesiastical geography has here thus changed to correspond with France's new regions, much as diocesan and provincial boundaries from Napoleon's Concordat of 1801 onwards changed mainly in accordance with those of the
Revolution
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's ''départements''.
History
The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the
Middle Ages
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there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of
Aquitaine
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. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.
Bishops of Bourges
To 600
* St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
* Sevitianus
* Aetherius
* Thecretus
* Marcellus (all prior to 337)
* Saint Viateur (''Viator'') 337–354 '' Philippe Labbe, '' Patriarchium Bituricense'' dans '' Novae Bibliothecae Mss'' Librorum, t.II
* : Leothère 354–363
* : Pauper 363–377
* Palladius (377–384)
* : Villice 384–412
* : Avit 412–431
* : Saint Pallais II 448–462
* Leo (453)
* Euloge 462–469
* Simplicius (472–480)
*
Saint Tétrade
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494–506
* Rorice 512–?
* ?–? : Siagre
* ?–? : Saint Humat : ?–?
* Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535)) 533–535
* Saint Honoré II 535–537
* Saint Arcade 537–549
* Saint Désiré (549–552)
* Saint Probien 552–559
*
Saint Félix
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Saint Apollinaire
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591 – † 5 octobre 611
From 600 to 1000
* Austregisilus (612–624)
* Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624–644)
* Saint Florent (647–660)
* Adon (662–680)
* Agosène (682–683)
* Roch (696–736)
* Sigin (736–761)
* Landoaire (761–764)
* Dédoat (764–780)
* Ségolène (780–785)
* David (793–802)
* Bertholan (815–827)
* Agilulfus (c. 829–840)
* Raoul of Turenne (840–866)
* Wulfad (866–876)
* Frotharius (876–c. 893)
* Adace (890–900)
* Madalbert (900–910)
* Saint Géronce de Déols (910–948)
* Laune de Déols (948–955)
*
Richard de Blois
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(955–969)
* Hugh of Blois (969–985)
* Dagbert (987–1013)
Gilles de Rome
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1295–1316
1300 to 1600
* Renault de la Porte 1316–1320
* Guillaume de Brosse 1321–1331
* Foucaud de Rochechouard 1331–1343
* Blessed Roger le Fort 1343–1367
*
Pierre d'Estaing
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1367–1370
*
Pierre de Cros
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1370–1374, became Archbishop of Arles, and cardinal
* Bertrand de Chenac 1374–1386
* Jean de Rochechouart 1382–1390
* Pierre Aimery 1391–1409
* Guillaume de Boisratier 1409–1421
* Henry d'Avangour 1421–1446
*
Jean Coeur
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* Jean (female given name)
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* Je ...
Renaud de Beaune
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Life
He held secular positions such as Councillor of Parliament and Chancellor of Francis of Valois, Duke of Touraine. The royal court greatly favoured hi ...
1581
1600 to present
*
André Fremiot
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Jean-Joseph Marchal Jean-Joseph is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793), French Jesuit missionary
*Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (1754–1807), French cavalry general of the Napoleonic wars
* Jean-Joseph Ansiaux (176 ...
(1880–1892)
*
Jean-Pierre Boyer
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Louis-Joseph Fillon Louis-Joseph may refer to:
*Louis Joseph Bahin (1813-1857), American painter in the Antebellum South
* Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
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(1934–1943)
*
Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre
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He was the cousin ...
Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau
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Plateau was born in Saint-Servan and ordained a priest on June 28, 1947. Plateau was appointed auxiliary bishop to the Arch ...