Moûtiers Cathedral () is a

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Moûtiers en Tarentaise Moûtiers (; Arpitan: ''Motiérs''), historically also called Tarentaise, is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. Moûtiers is the main access point to the Les Trois Vallées ski region ...

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. The

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is a national monument, and was formerly the seat of the

Archdiocese of Tarentaise The Archdiocese of Tarentaise () was a Roman Catholic diocese and archdiocese in France, with its see in Moûtiers, in the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie. It was established as a diocese in the 5th century, elevated to archdiocese in 794, and disba ...

, which was abolished under the

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. It was afterwards the seat of the re-formed Bishopric of Tarentaise from 1825 until 1966, when the diocese of Tarentaise, Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and the

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were amalgamated to form the present

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Catholic Encyclopedia: Tarentaise

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