Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges

Archdiocese of Bourges

*Archidioecesis Bituricensis*

Archidiocèse de Bourges
Archdiocese of Bourges; Archidioecesis Bituricensis; Archidiocèse de Bourges
	Bourges Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Tours
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Tours
Statistics
Area	14,210 km2 (5,490 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2022); 533,000; 500,000 (93.8%)
Parishes	58
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Stephen in Bourges
Patron saint	St. Ursinus of Bourges
Secular priests	66 (Diocesan); 19 (Religious Orders); 18 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Jérôme Daniel Beau
Metropolitan Archbishop	Vincent Jordy
Bishops emeritus	Hubert Barbier; Armand Maillard
Map
Website
	Official website

The Archdiocese of Bourges (Latin: Archidioecesis Bituricensis; French: Archidiocèse de Bourges) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire. Bourges Cathedral stands in the city of Bourges in the department of Cher. Although this is still titled as an Archdiocese, it ceased as a metropolitan see in 2002 and is now a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of Tours.

In 2002 it lost its metropolitan function (and thus the archbishop no longer wears the pallium), its province having ceased to exist (the province had already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had initially corresponded - Albi had been erected as an archbishopric in the medieval context of heresiological conflict; Orléans, Chartres, and Blois - historically dependent on Sens - had been attached to Paris, from which they passed to Bourges in the 1960s). The Archdiocese (also the three above- mentioned sees) is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tours; other dioceses until recently dependent on Bourges are now suffragans of the Clermont-Ferrand Archdiocese. Historical ecclesiastical geography has here thus changed to correspond with France's new regions, much as diocesan and provincial boundaries from Napoleon's Concordat of 1801 onwards changed mainly in accordance with those of the Revolution's départements.

History

The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.

Bishops of Bourges

To 600

St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
Sevitianus
Aetherius
Thecretus
Marcellus (all prior to 337)
Saint Viateur (Viator) 337–354 ^[1]
: Leothère 354–363
: Pauper 363–377
Palladius (377–384)
: Villice 384–412
: Avit 412–431
: Saint Pallais II 448–462
Leo (453)
Euloge 462–469
Simplicius (472–480)
Saint Tétrade 494–506
Rorice 512–?
?–? : Siagre
?–? : Saint Humat : ?–?^[1]
Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535)) 533–535
Saint Honoré II^[1] 535–537
Saint Arcade 537–549 ^[2]^[3]
Saint Désiré (549–552)
Saint Probien 552–559
Saint Félix 560–573
Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century)
Sulpitius I of Bourges (584–591)
Saint Eustase 591–591
Saint Apollinaire^[4] 591 – † 5 octobre 611

From 600 to 1000

Austregisilus (612–624)
Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624–644)
Saint Florent (647–660)
Adon (662–680)
Agosène (682–683)
Roch (696–736)
Sigin (736–761)
Landoaire (761–764)
Dédoat (764–780)
Ségolène (780–785)
Saint David (793–802)
Bertholan (815–827)
Agilulfus (c. 829–840)
Raoul of Turenne (840–866)
Wulfad (866–876)^[5]
Frotharius (876–c. 893)
Adace (890–900)
Madalbert (900–910)
Saint Géronce de Déols (910–948)
Laune de Déols (948–955)
Richard de Blois (955–969)
Hugh of Blois (969–985)^[6]
Dagbert (987–1013)^[6]

From 1000 to 1300

Gauzlin Capet (1013–1030)^[6]
Aimo de Bourbon (1031–1071)^[7]

...

Alberich of Reims (1136–1141)
Henry de Sully (d. 1200)
William of Donjeon (1200–09)
Girard de Cros 1209–1218
Simon de Sully 1218–1232
Philippe Berruyer 1232–1260
Jean de Sully 1260–1271
Guy de Sully 1276–1280
Simon de Beaulieu 1281–1294
Gilles de Rome 1295–1316

1300 to 1600

Renault de la Porte 1316–1320
Guillaume de Brosse 1321–1331
Foucaud de Rochechouard 1331–1343
Blessed Roger le Fort 1343–1367
Pierre d'Estaing 1367–1370
Pierre de Cros 1370–1374, became Archbishop of Arles, and cardinal
Bertrand de Chenac 1374–1386
Jean de Rochechouart 1382–1390^[8]
Pierre Aimery 1391–1409
Guillaume de Boisratier 1409–1421
Henry d'Avangour 1421–1446
Jean Coeur 1446–1483
Pierre Cadoüet 1483–1492
Guillaume de Cambray 1492–1505
Michel de Bucy 1505–1511
Andrew Forman 1513
François de Tournon 1526-1537 (elevated to Cardinal in 1530)
Renaud de Beaune 1581

1600 to present

André Fremiot (1602–1621)
Roland Hébert (1622-1638)
Pierre d'Hardivilliers (1639-1649)
Anne de Lévis de Ventadour (1649-1662)
Jean de Montpezat de Carbon (1663-1674)
Michel Poncet de La Rivière (1675-1677)
Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (1677–1694)^[9]
Léon Potier de Gesvres (1694-1729)
Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld (1729-1757)
Georges-Louis Phélypeaux d'Herbault (1757–1787)
Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur (1788–1802)
Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy (1802–1811)
Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Louis des Gallois de La Tour (1817–1820)
Jean-Marie Cliquet de Fontenay (1820–1834)
Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle (1825–1841)
Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont (1842–1859)
Alexis-Basile-Alexandre Menjaud (1859–1861)
Charles-Amable de la Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais (1861–1879)
Jean-Joseph Marchal (1880–1892)

Bishop Armand Maillard

Jean-Pierre Boyer (1893–1896)
Pierre-Paul Servonnet (1897–1909)
Louis-Ernest Dubois (1909–1916), appointed Archbishop of Rouen (Cardinal later that year)
Martin-Jérôme Izart (1916–1934)
Louis-Joseph Fillon (1934–1943)
Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (1943–1969) (Cardinal in 1960)
Charles-Marie-Paul Vignancour (1969–1984)
Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau (1984–2000)
Hubert Barbier (2000–2007)
Armand Maillard (2007–2018)
Jérôme Daniel Beau (25 July 2018– )

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Philippe Labbe, Patriarchium Bituricense dans Novae Bibliothecae Mss Librorum, t.II
^ Nominis : Saint Arcade de Bourges
^ Forum orthodoxe.com : saints pour le 1^er août du calendrier ecclésiastique
^ Les vies des saints ..., t.X, Paris, Herissant, 1739, p. 230
^ Thomas Bauer (1998). "Wulfad, Erzbischof von Bourges". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 168–170. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c Devailly, Guy (1973). Le diocèse de Bourges (in French). Paris: Letouzey & Ane. p. 247. OCLC 815696. Hugues de Blois 969–985
^ Gams, p. 523.
^ Eubel, I, p. 139. Joseph Hyacinthe Albanès; Ulysse Chevalier; Louis Fillet (1901). Gallia christiana novissima: Arles (in French and Latin). Montbéliard: Soc. anonyme d'imprimerie montbéliardasie. p. 741.
^ Entry 394 in Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 4, p. 94. Paris: Plon, 1886 (at Google Books). Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (1642–1694), VIAF.

Bibliography

Reference works

Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. (Use with caution; obsolete)
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Eubel, Conradus (ed.). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.

Studies

Du Tems, Hugues (1774). Le clergé de France, ou tableau historique et chronologique des archevêques, évêques, abbés, abbesses et chefs des chapitres principaux du royaume, depuis la fondation des églises jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Vol. Tome premier. Paris: Delalain.
Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. p. 78.
Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères.

External links

(in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L'Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
Archevêques de Bourges
Lists of Bishops and Archbishops

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[Labbe-1] Philippe Labbe, Patriarchium Bituricense dans Novae Bibliothecae Mss Librorum, t.II

[2] Nominis : Saint Arcade de Bourges

[3] Forum orthodoxe.com : saints pour le 1^er août du calendrier ecclésiastique

[4] Les vies des saints ..., t.X, Paris, Herissant, 1739, p. 230

[5] Thomas Bauer (1998). "Wulfad, Erzbischof von Bourges". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 168–170. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.

[Devailly-6] Devailly, Guy (1973). Le diocèse de Bourges (in French). Paris: Letouzey & Ane. p. 247. OCLC 815696. Hugues de Blois 969–985

[7] Gams, p. 523.

[8] Eubel, I, p. 139. Joseph Hyacinthe Albanès; Ulysse Chevalier; Louis Fillet (1901). Gallia christiana novissima: Arles (in French and Latin). Montbéliard: Soc. anonyme d'imprimerie montbéliardasie. p. 741.

[9] Entry 394 in Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 4, p. 94. Paris: Plon, 1886 (at Google Books). Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (1642–1694), VIAF.

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