The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nevers ( la, Dioecesis Nivernensis, link=no; french: Diocèse de Nevers, link=no) is a

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of the

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of the

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in France. The diocese comprises the

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. Suppressed by the

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and united to the

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, it was re-established in 1823 as

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of the

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and took over a part of the former Diocese of Autun and a part of the

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History

The ''

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'' mentions as first Bishop of Nevers St. Eladius, restored to health in the reign of Clovis by

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, Abbot of St. Maurice. According to

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, the first authentic bishop is Tauricanus, present at the

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in 517. A number of former bishops of Nevers are venerated as saints: St. Jerome (800–816) who rebuilt the cathedral in honour of the martyrs

Cyricus and Julitta Cyricus ( el, Κήρυκος, am, ቂርቆስ, arc, ܡܪܝ ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ ܣܗܕܐ ''Mar Quriaqos Sahada''; also Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr), and his mother, Julitta ( el, Ἰουλίττα, am, እየሉጣ arc, ܝܘܠܝܛܐ, ''Yul ...

, which until then had been dedicated to Saints

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. It is possible that in the 7th century three other saints occupied the See of Nevers: St. Diè (Deodatus), the same perhaps who died a

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in the

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. The following bishops of Nevers were notable: *the future cardinal

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(1320–22) who, in 1329–30, defended ecclesiastical immunities against the barons in the celebrated conferences of Paris and Vincennes presided over by

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; *

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(1540–47) subsequently cardinal and whom the Leaguers wished to make King of France under the name of Charles X; *

Jacques Spifame Jacques-Paul Spifame de Brou, born in Paris in 1502 and died 25 March 1566 in Geneva, was a French prelate who converted to be a Calvinist during the 16th century. Family Jacques-Paul Spifame de Brou was the son of Jean, lord of Passy and Bisseaux ...

(1548–58) who became a

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in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; *the polemicist

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(1578–1606), the Confessor of King Charles IX and a voluminous writer. Among the saints of this diocese must be mentioned: *Sts. Paul, priest; Péreux and Pélerin, martyrs between 272 and 303; * St. Paroze (Patritius), Abbot of Nevers in the 6th century; *the hermit St. Franchy (Francovæcus); the priest St. Vincent of Magny in the 9th century; *the blessed Nicholas Applaine, once Canon of the collegiate church of Prémery (15th century), whose cassock

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demanded of Bishop Pierre de Fontenay. * Claude Fauchet,

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during the Revolution, was a native of the diocese. The Abbey of La Charité sur Loire, founded in 1056, and known as the "eldest daughter" of Cluny, was inaugurated on 9 March 1107 by

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; Bishop Hervé of Nevers was present. The celebrated

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of Saint-Denis, then a simple cleric, has left an account of the ceremony. The

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Abbey of Corbigny, founded under

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, was occupied by the

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in 1563, as a basis of operations.

Bernadette Soubirous Bernadette Soubirous (; ; oc, Bernadeta Sobirós ; 7 January 184416 April 1879), also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (''Lorda'' in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in ...

, the visionary of Lourdes, died in the Convent of the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction in Nevers, 16 April 1879. The chief places of pilgrimage in the diocese are: Notre Dame de Pitié, at St. Martin d'Heuille, dating from the 14th century; Notre Dame de Fauboulvin at Corancy, dating from 1590; Notre Dame du Morvan at Dun-sur-Grandry, dating from 1876. Among the congregations for women which originated in the diocese must be mentioned: the

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, a teaching order founded in 1622 at Nevers by the Duke of Gonzaga and the Nevers aldermen; the Hospitallers, founded in 1639 at

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by Sister Médard-Varlet; the congregation of

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, founded in 1680, with mother-house at Nevers.

Bishops

To 1000

*c. 506: St Euladius *c. 517: Tauricianus *c. 538–c. 541: Rusticus *c. 549–c. 552:

Aregius Aré or Aregius of Nevers was bishop of Nevers in France and is known because he subscribed to the deeds of both the Fifth Council of Orléans The Fifth Council of Orléans (28 October 549) assembled nine archbishops and forty-one bishops. Sacerdos ...

(Aridius) *Euphronius *c. 567: St Aeoladius (Eloade) *c. 580 – 26 February 594: Agricola *Fulcilius *c. 624–c. 653: Rauracus *c. 658: Leodebaudus *c. 660: Hecherius *c. 665 – 668 : Deodatus ( St Dié) *c. 666: Gilbert *c. 672: Rogus *c. 691: St Itier *c. 696–c. 697: Ebarcius *c. 702: Opportunus *c. 726: Nectarius *c. 747: Chebroaldus *Raginfredus (Raginfroi) *Waldo *c. 800–816: Hieronymus (Jerome) *c. 817–c. 829: Jonas *c. 833: Gerfredus (Gerfroi) *Hugo I. *c. 840 – 22 July 860: Hériman *Raginus *c. 861: Abbo I. *c. 864: Luido *866–c. 884: Abbo II. *c. 886–c. 892: Emmenus * . 893: Adalgaire (?)*894–c. 905: Franco *c. 906–c. 914: Atto *c. 916: Launo *c. 935–c. 947: Tedalgrin *948–c. 955: Gaubert *c. 958: Gérard *959–979 or 980: Natran, O.S.B. *980–c. 1011: Roclenus

1000 to 1300

*1013 – May 1065 : Hugues II. de Champ-Allemand *c. 1066 – 1 June 1074 : Malguin *1. November 1074 – c. 1090 : Hugues III. de Champ-Allemand *c. 1096 – c. 1099 : Gui *18 December 1099 – 8 August 1109 : Hervé *1110 – c. 1120 : Hugues IV. *1121 – c. 1145 : Fromond *1146 – 1159 : Geoffroi *1160 – 14 January 1177 : Bernard de Saint-Saulge *1177 – 25 April 1188 : Theobaldus (Thibaut) *1188 – 15 June 1196 : Jean I. *1196 – 11 January 1202 : Gauthier *c. 1204 – 19 May 1221 : Guillaume I. de Saint-Lazare *1222 – 4 December 1222 : Gervais de Châteauneuf *1223 – 28 July 1230 : Renaud I. *1232 – c. 1240 : Raoul de Beauvais *1240 – 1252 or 1253 : Robert Cornut *1252 or 1253 – 1254 : Henri Cornut *1254 – 31 May 1260 : Guillaume II de Grandpuy *c. 1262 – 14 January 1273 : Robert II. de Marzi *1273–1285 : Gilles de Châteaurenaud *23 July 1285 – 28 July 1294 : Gilles II. du Chastelet *28 March 1294 – 4 June 1314: Jean II. de Savigny

1300 to 1500

*1314 – 2 February 1319 : Guillaume III. Beaufils *28 January 1320 – 19 May 1322 : Pierre Bertrand *19 May 1322 – 1332 : Bertrand I. Gascon *1333 – 12 September 1334 : Jean III. Mandevillain *20 January 1335 – 15 March 1339 :

Pierre Bertrand de Colombier Pierre Bertrand de Colombier (1299–1361), French cardinal and diplomat, was born at Colombier in Ardèche. He was nephew and namesake of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand of Annonay. After a careful juristic education he was successively advocate at ...

*15 March 1339 – c. 1357 : Bertrand II. (Tissandier) *6 November 1359 – 1361 : Renaud II. des Moulins *2 August 1361 – 1371 :

Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut or Montaigu, Montagu, known as Cardinal de Laon, born between 1320 and 1325 and died 8 November 1388, was a fourteenth-century French cardinal, who was the bishop of Nevers (1361–1371) and bishop of the Diocese of La ...

*1371–1372 : Jean IV. de Neufchâtel *1374–1380 : Pierre V. de Dinteville *1381 – 16 January 1395 : Maurice de Coulange-la-Vineuse (Avignon Obedience) *1395–1400 : Philippe I. Froment (Avignon Obedience) *1401 – 22 July 1430 : Robert III. de Dangueil (Avignon Obedience) *1430–1436 : Jean V. Germain *30 August 1436 – 1444 : Jean VI. Vivien *8 October 1445 – ? : Jean Troufon * 4461448 – 1461: Jean VII. d'Étampes *23 September 1461 – 3 June 1499: Pierre VI. de Fontenai

1500 to 1800

*24 January 1500 – 1505: Philip of Cleves *9 August 1503 – 31 May 1505: Niccolò Fieschi, Administrator *31 May 1505 – 12 September 1507 : Antoine de Fleurs *29 October 1508 – 30 July 1512 : Jean VII. Bohier *9 January 1513 – 11 February 1519 : Imbert de la Platière de Bourdillon *13 March 1519 – 22 April 1539 : Jacques I. d'Albret *5 June 1540 – 23 January 1545 :

*5 May 1546 – 1558 :

*27 January 1559 – 7 April 1578: Gilles Spifame *22 July 1578 – 1 March 1606 : Arnaud Sarbin de Sainte-Foi *19 November 1606 – 17 June 1643 : Eustache I. du Lys *1643–1666: Eustache II. de Chéri *28 August 1667 – 3 September 1705 : Edouard I. Valot *1705 – 20 July 1719: Edouard II Bargedé *1719 – 20 February 1740: Charles II Fontaine des Montées *1740 – 4 April 1751: Guillaume IV d'Hugues *4 April 1751 – 1782: Jean-Antoine Tinseau *5 January 1783 – 1788: Pierre VII. de Séguiran *1789–1790: Louis-Jérôme de Suffren de Saint-Tropez **1791–1801: Guillaume Tollet (Constitutional Bishop of Nièvre)

From 1800

*1823–1829: Jean-Baptiste-François-Nicolas Millaux *1829–1834: Charles de Douhet d'Auzers *1834–1842: Paul Naudo (later

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) *1842–1860: Dominique-Augustin Dufêtre *1860–1873: Théodore-Augustin Forcade,

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(later

Archbishop of Aix The Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Aquensis in Gallia et Arelatensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Aix-en-Provence et Arles''; Occitan Provençal: ''Archidiocèsi de Ais de Provença e Arle'' or ''Archidioucès ...

) *1873–1877: Thomas-Casimir-François de Ladoue *1877–1903: Etienne-Antoine-Alfred Lelong *1906–1910: François-Léon Gauthey (later

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) *1910–1932: Pierre Chatelus *1932–1963: Patrice Flynn *1963–1966: Michel-Louis Vial (later

Bishop of Nantes The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes ( la, Dioecesis Nannetensis; french: Diocèse de Nantes; br, Eskopti Naoned) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Nantes, France. The diocese consists of the department of Loire- ...

) *1966–1987: Jean-François-Marie Streiff *1988–1997: Michel Paul Marie Moutel, P.S.S. *1998–2011: François Joseph Pierre Deniau *2011–present: Thierry Marie Jacques Brac de la Perrière

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* pp. 333–334. (in Latin) * p. 189 (in Latin) * * p. 237 (in Latin) * p. 263 (in Latin) * p. 284. (in Latin) * * * *

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External links

* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919''
retrieved: 2016-12-24.

Acknowledgment

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Nevers Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the principal city of the ...

Nevers

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Bishops

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1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

1500 to 1800

From 1800

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