The Diocese of Verdun ( la, Dioecesis Virodunensis; french: Diocèse de Verdun) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is a

suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...

in the ecclesiastical province of the

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Archdiocese of Besançon. The Diocese of Verdun corresponds to the '' département'' of Meuse in the ''

région France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (french: régions, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collect ...

'' of Lorraine. The diocese is subdivided into 577 parishes.

History

The diocese dates back to the 4th century. Traditionally the city was first evangelized around 332 by St Sanctinus, Bishop of Meaux, who became the first bishop. Sanctinus erected the first Christian oratory dedicated to

St. Peter ) (Simeon, Simon) , birth_date = , birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire , death_date = Between AD 64–68 , death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire , parents = John (or Jonah; Jona) , occupation ...

and St. Paul. "Other bishops worthy of mention are: St. Possessor (470–486); St. Firminus (486–502); St. Vitonus (Vanne) (502–529); St. Désiré (Desideratus) (529–554), St. Agericus (Airy) (554–591), friend of St.

Gregory of Tours Gregory of Tours (30 November 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florenti ...

and of Fortunatus; St. Paul (630–648), formerly Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Tholey in the Diocese of Trier; and St. Madalvaeus (Mauve) (753–776)." Until 1801 Verdun was part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Trier. On November 29, 1801 it was suppressed and added to the

Diocese of Nancy The Diocese of Nancy and Toul (Latin: ''Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. After a considerable political strugg ...

. On October 6, 1822 the diocese was re-established.

After the Concordat

Amiens France Cathédrale-Jean-Paul Gusching en 2014-01 (cropped)

* 1823–1830: Etienne-Bruno-Marie d'Arbou * 1826–1831: François-Joseph de Villeneuve-Esclapon * 1832–1836: Placide-Bruno Valayer * 1836–1844: Augustin-Jean Le Tourneur * 1844–1866: Louis Rossat * 1867–1884: Augustin Hacquard * 1884–1887: Jean-Natalis-François Gonindard * 1887–1901: Jean-Pierre Pagis * 1901–1909:

Louis-Ernest Dubois Louis-Ernest Dubois (1 September 1856 – 23 September 1929) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris. He played a leading role in the period of adjustment to the separation of Church and State in France. Early life He was born in ...

20th century

* 1910–1913: Jean Arturo Chollet * 1914–1946: Charles-Marie-André Ginisty * 1946–1963: Marie-Paul-Georges Petit * 1963–1986: Pierre Francis Lucien Anatole Boillon * 1987–1999: Marcel Paul Herriot

21st century

*From 2000 to September 2014:

François Paul Marie Maupu François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, Kin ...

*From September 2014: Jean-Paul Gabriel Émile Gusching

References

Books

External links

Website of the diocese
Roman Catholic dioceses in France Roman Catholic dioceses in the Holy Roman Empire Dioceses established in the 4th century 4th-century establishments in Roman Gaul {{France-RC-diocese-stub