The former

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diocese of Grasse was founded in the 4th or 5th century as the diocese of Antibes. It was originally suffragan to the Archbishop of Aix, and then to the Archbishop of Embrun. The see moved from

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in 1244. It remained at

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until the

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. The diocese was suppressed by the

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, its territory passing to the

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History

The city of Antibes was a colony of the Greek city of Massilia (Marseille). The Romans included it in the ''Alpes Maritimae''. In church organization, Antibes belonged to the Province of Alpes Maritimae, whose Metropolitan was the Archbishop of Aix. Its Metropolitan later, before 1056, became the

Archbishop of Embrun The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Embrun was located in southeastern France, in the mountains of the Maritime Alps, on a route that led from Gap by way of Briançon to Turin. It had as suffragans the Diocese of Digne, Diocese of Antibes and Gras ...

. The first known Bishop of Antibes is Armentarius who attended the

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in 442.

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considered it possible that the Remigius, who signed at the

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in 396 and in 417 received a letter from

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, may have been Bishop of Antibes before Armentarius. Ralph Matheson, however, believes that this Remigius was Remigius of Aix. On 19 July 1244,

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transferred the seat of the diocese from the port city of Antibes to the interior city of Grasse, due to a depopulation of Antibes and the repeated attacks of pirates, ''propter insalubritatem aeris et incursus piratorum''. In 1181, King Idelfonso of Aragon granted Bishop Fulco of Antibes the seigneurial rights over the city of Antibes. The cathedral of Grasse was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was supervised by a Chapter composed of (originally) five dignities (Provost, Sacristan, Archdeacon, 'capiscolo' cholasticusand Archpriest) and four Canons (one of whom was designated the Theologus). The office of Provost, however, was abolished on 30 July 1692. The office of Archdeacon of Grasse was established by Bishop Bernardo de Castronovo on 16 May 1421. The diocese of Grasse was suppressed by decree of the Legislative Assembly of France on 22 November 1790. The arrondissement of Grasse was separated from the

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in 1886, and given to the bishopric of Nice which since unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and

Vence Vence (; oc, Vença) is a commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France, north of Nice and Antibes. Ecclesiastical history The first known Bishop of Vence is Severu ...

Bishops of Antibes

*c. 442: Armentarius *c. 506–c. 529: Agroecius *c. 529–541: Eucherius * 549 – 570 573: Eusebius * c. 573 – c. 585: Optatus * 614: Eusebius * c. 647–653: Deocarus * 788: Autbertus * 28: Heldebonus* 30: Aimarus* c. 987 – 1022: Bernardus (I.) * 1026 – c. 1050: Heldebertus (I.) * 1056 – c. 1088: Gaufredus (I.) * 1089 – 1093: Aldebertus (or Adelbertus II.) *c. 1110 – c. 1135: Manfredus Grimaldi * 1143: Gaufredus (II.) * 1146–1156: Petrus * 1158–ca. 1165: Raimond (I.) * 1166–1177: Bertrandus (I.) * 1178–1185: Fulco * 1186–1187: Guillaume (I.) * 1188–c. 1195: Raimond (II.) Grimaldi * 1199: Olivier *c. 1208–c. 1211: Bertrandus (II.) * c. 1212–c. 1215: Guillaume (Gausselin) de Saint-Marcel * 1218–1245?: Bertrand d'Aix, O.P.

Bishops of Grasse

from 1245 to 1505

* 1246–1253 Raimond (III.) Villeneuve, O.P. * c. 1255 Pontius * 1258–1277 Guilelmus de Barras * c. 1281 – 1286 Pons d'Arcussia * 1287–1298 Lantelmus de Saint-Marcel * 1298–1299 Guillaume Agarni * 1299–1343 Geoffroy (III.) * 1343–1348 Pierre de Béreste * 1348–1349 Jean Coci (Peyroleri) * 1349–1374 Amédée * 1374–1379

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* 1379–1382

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* 1383–1388

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(Avignon Obedience) * Mar–Oct 1389 Milon Provana, O.Min. (Avignon Obedience) * 9 Oct 1389 – 1392

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* 29 February 1392 – 1407 Pierre Bonnet (Avignon Obedience) * 1408–1427

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* 1427–1447 Antoine de Roumoules * 1448–1450 Guillaume Guezi * 1450–1451 Pierre de Forbin (Gorbin) : 1450 Dominique de Guiza * 1451–1483 Isnard de Grasse * 1483–1505 Jean-André Grimaldi

from 1505 to 1791

* 1505–1532

Augustine Grimaldi Augustine Grimaldi (1482 – 14 April 1532) was Regent of Monaco (1523–1532), Bishop of Grasse, Abbot of Lérins, and founder of the village of Valbonne. Family Augustine was the son of Lambert Grimaldi, Lord of Monaco (1420–1494) and Cl ...

* 1532–1533 René du Bellay * 1534–1536 Benoit Théocréne * 8 Jan 1537 – 18 March 1548

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(Administrator) * 1551–1565 Jean Vallier * 1567–1570 Jean Grenon * 1570–1588 Étienne Déodel : 1588–1598 Georges de Poissieux * 1592–1601

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* 1604–1624 Étienne Le Maingre de Boucicault, O.F.M.Obs. * 1625–1628 Jean de Grasse-Cabris * 1630–1632 Jean Guérin * 1632–1636 Scipion de Villeneuve-Thorenc * 1636–1653

Antoine Godeau Antoine Godeau (24 September 1605, in Dreux – 21 April 1672, in Vence) was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism ''Discours de la poésie chrétienne'' from 1633. Biography His verse-writing early won the ...

* 1653–1675 Louis de Bernage * 1676–1681 Louis Aube de Roquemartine * 1682–1683 Antoine Le Comte : rançois Verjus: ean Balthazar de Cabanes* 1692–1710 François Verjus * 1711–1726 Joseph de Mesgrigny, O.F.M. Cap. * 1726–1752 Charles-Octavien d'Anthelmy * 1752–1797 François d'Estienne de Saint-Jean de PrunièresSaint-Jean de Prunières was born in the diocese of Gap in 1718, and held a licenciate in Civil and Canon Law (Valence). In 1791 he fled into exile at Savillian in Piedmont, and then in 1794 he moved to Bologna, where he died in 1797. Jean, p. 199. Ritzler-Sefrin, VI, p. 228 with note 2.

References

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Reference works

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Studies

* *Bianchi, Constant. "L'application de la Constitution civile du clergé dans l'ancien diocèse de Grasse," ''Annales de la Société scientifique et littéraire de Cannes'', 13 (1951–54), pp. 97–108. * *
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Acknowledgment

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