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Archdiocese of Bordeaux. The current bishop is Philippe Mousset, who was appointed in 2014.

History

The ''

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of Ado'' gives St. Front as the first bishop of Périgueux;

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is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the ''Chronicle of

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'' that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361. Among its bishops are: *

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(1447–1468) *

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, Cardinal of Givry, who was only the administrator, not the bishop, from 27 August 1540 to 27 August 1541. *the future

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(1836–1840), subsequently

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, later placed under the patronage of

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, seems to have existed before the reigns of

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who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of

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(1153). About 936

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, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by

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, on 13 January 1318.

Bishops

to 1000

* Saint Front * Agnan * Chronope I. * c. 356: Paterne * c. 380: Gavide * c. 410: Pégase * c. 506 – c. 533: Chronope II. * c. 540: Sabaude * c. 582: Chartier * c. 590: Saffaire * c. 629: Austier * c. 767 – c. 778: Bertrand * c. 805 – c. 811: Raimond I. * c. 844: Ainard * c. 900: Sébaude * 977–991: Frotaire * 992–1000: Martin

1000–1200

* 1000–1009: Rodolphe de Coué * 1010–1036 or 1037: Arnaud de Vitabre * c. 1037–1059: Géraud de Gourdon * 1060–1081: Guillaume I. de Montberon * 1081–1099: Renaud de Tivier * 1100–1101: Raimond II. * 1102–1129: Guillaume II. d'Auberoche * 1130–1138: Guillaume III. de Nanclars * 1138–1142: Geoffroi I. de Cauze * 1142–1147: Pierre I. * 1148–1158: Raimond III. de Mareuil * 1160–1169: Jean I. d'Assida * 1169–1182: Pierre II. Minet * 1185–1197: Adhémar I. de La Torre * 1197–1210: Raimond IV. de Châteauneuf

1200–1400

* 1210–1220: Raoul I. de Lastours de Laron * 1220–1233: Cardinal Raimond de Pons * 1234–1266: Pierre III. de Saint-Astier * 1267 – c. 1280: Elie I. Pilet * c. 1282 – c. 1295: Raimond VI. d'Auberoche * 1297 – c. 1312: Audouin * 1314–1331: Raimond VII. * 1332–1333: Giraud * 1333–1335: Pierre IV. * 1336–1340: Raimond VIII. * 1340 – c. 1346: Guillaume IV. Audibert * 1347–1348: Adhémar II. * 1349 – c. 1382: Pierre V. Pin * 1384–1385: Elie II. Servient * 1387 – c. 1400: Pierre VI. de Durfort

1400–1600

* c. 1402: Guillaume V. Lefèvre * c. 1405: Gabriel I. * 1407–1408: Raimond IX. de Castelnau * 1408 – c. 1430: Jean II. * 1431 – c. 1436: Berenger * 1437–1438: Elie III. * 1438–1439: Pierre VII. de Durfort * 1440–1441: Raimond X. * 1441 – c. 1446: Geoffroi II. Bérenger d'Arpajon * 1447–1463: Elie IV. de Bourdeille * 1463–1470: Raoul II. du Fou (also Bishop of Angoulême) * 1470–1485: Geoffroi III. de Pompadour (also Bishop of Angoulême) * 1486–1500: Gabriel II. du Mas * 1500–1504: Geoffroi III. de Pompadour * 1504 – c. 1510: Jean III. Auriens * 1510–1522: Gui I. de Castelnau * 1522–1524: Jacques de Castelnau * 1524–1532: Jean de Plas * 1532–1540:

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* 1540–1541:

, Cardinal de Givry * 1541–1547

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, administrator * 1548–1550: Jean de Lustrac * 1551–1552: Geoffroi de Pompadour * 1554–1560: Gui II. Bouchard d'Aubeterre * 1561–1575: Pierre VIII. Fournier * 1578–1600: François I. de Bourdeille

1600–1800

* 1600–1612: Jean VI. Martin * 1614–1646: François II. de La Béraudière * 1646: Jean VII. d'Estrades * 1646–1652: Philibert de Brandon * 1654–1665: Cyr de Villers-la-Faye * 1666–1693: Guillaume VI. Le Boux * 1693–1702: Daniel de Francheville * 1702–1719: Pierre IX. Clément * 1721–1731: Michel-Pierre d'Argouges * 1731–1771: Jean VIII. Chrétien de Macheco de Prémeaux * 1771–1773: Gabriel III. Louis de Rougé * 1773–1790: Emmanuel-Louis de Grossoles de Flamarens * 1791–1793: Pontaud

from 1800

* 1817–1836: Alexandre-Charles-Louis-Rose de Lostanges-Saint-Alvère * 1835–1840:

Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (born at Montigny-lès-Cherlieu, a village of Franche-Comté, in 1792; died at Reims in 1866) was a French cardinal and theologian. The son of a vine-grower, he at first laboured in the fields, and did not begin his s ...

(also

) * 1840–1860: Jean-Baptiste-Amédée Georges-Massonnais * 1861–1863: Charles-Théodore Baudry * 1863–1901: Nicolas-Joseph Dabert * 1901–1906: François-Marie-Joseph Delamaire * 1906–1915: Henri-Louis-Prosper Bougoin * 1915–1920: Maurice-Louis-Marie Rivière * 1920–1931: Christophe-Louis Légasse * 1932–1965: Georges-Auguste Louis * 1965–1988: Jacques-Julien-Émile Patria * 1988–2004: Gaston Élie Poulain, P.S.S. * 2004–2014: Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse * 2014–present: Philippe MoussetDavid M. Cheney, ''Catholic-Hierarchy:''
''Bishop Philippe Mousset''
Retrieved: 2016-07-01.

References

Bibliography

Reference books

* p. 397-398. (in Latin) * pp. 215. * p. 272. * p. 277. * pp. 311–312. * p. 334. *

Studies

External links

* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919''
retrieved: 2016-12-24. {{DEFAULTSORT:Perigueux, Diocese of Roman Catholic dioceses in France