The Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat (

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: ''Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat'') is a

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. The Diocese of Périgueux is a

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of the metropolitan

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. 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: * Raymond V, Cardinal of Pons (1220–1223) *the future cardinal, Hélie de Bourdeilles (1447–1468) * Claude de Longwy, Cardinal of Givry, who was only the administrator, not the bishop, from 27 August 1540 to 27 August 1541. *the future Cardinal Gousset (1836–1840), subsequently

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. The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos of Limoges, 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 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, 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 Chartier may refer to: Canada * Clément Chartier (b. 1946), a Métis leader * Eugène Chartier (1893–1963), a violinist, violist, conductor and teacher * Paul Joseph Chartier (1921–1966), died when a bomb he was preparing exploded in a washroo ...

* 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

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) * 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: Foucaud de Bonneval * 1540–1541: Claude de Longwy, Cardinal de Givry * 1541–1547 Agostino Trivulzio, 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 (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