Catholic diocese in France
The Diocese of Vannes (
Latin : Dioecesis Venetensis ;
French : Diocèse de Vannes ) is a
Latin Church
diocese of the
Catholic Church in
France .
Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is
Vannes Cathedral in the city of
Vannes . The diocese corresponds to the department of
Morbihan , and is suffragan to the
Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo . Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop since his appointment in 2005.
History
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(December 2016 )
In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the
Concordat of 1802 , to include part of the
ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo , which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the Dioceses of Vannes and
Saint-Brieuc and the
Archdiocese of Rennes .
In fiction
Alexandre Dumas makes
Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later , the last book of his
d'Artagnan Romances .
[1]
Bishops of Vannes
Two fifth-century bishops of the diocese were named Paternus, or Padarn.
[2] The second, now venerated as a saint, was elected at the
Council of Vannes .
[3]
to 1600
1600 to 1800
1599–1622: Jacques Martin
1622–1646: Sébastien de Rosmadec
1648–1671: Charles de Rosmadec
1671–1687: Louis Casset de Vautorte
[4]
1687–1716: François d'Argouges
1716–1717:
Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan
1717–1719:
Jean-François-Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin
Antoine Fagon † (29 Aug 1719 Appointed – 16 Feb 1742 Died)
Jean-Joseph Chapelle de Saint-Jean de Jumilhac † (2 Apr 1742 Appointed – 17 Apr 1746 Appointed,
Archbishop of Arles )
Charles-Jean de Bertin † ( 1746 Appointed – 1774 Died)
Sébastien-Michel Amelot † (10 Nov 1774 Appointed – 1801 Resigned)
since 1800
Antoine-Xavier Maynaud de Pancemont
[5] † (9 Apr 1802 Appointed – 13 Mar 1807 Died)
Pierre-François-Gabriel-Raymond-Ignace-Ferdinand de Bausset-Roquefort † (19 Nov 1807 Appointed – 8 Aug 1817 Appointed,
Archbishop of Aix )
Henri-Marie-Clauce de Bruc-Montplaisir † (27 Aug 1817 Appointed – 18 Jun 1826 Died)
Simon Garnier † (28 Jun 1826 Appointed – 8 May 1827 Died)
Charles-Jean de la Motte de Broons et de Vauvert † (4 Jul 1827 Appointed – 5 May 1860 Died)
Louis-Anne Dubreil † (5 Jun 1861 Appointed – 24 Oct 1863 Appointed,
Archbishop of Avignon )
Jean-Baptiste Charles Gazailhan † (24 Oct 1863 Appointed – 1865 Resigned)
Jean-Marie Bécel † (30 Dec 1865 Appointed – 6 Nov 1897 Died)
Amédée-Jean-Baptiste Latieule † (22 Mar 1898 Appointed – 21 Oct 1903 Died)
Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud † (21 Feb 1906 Appointed – 2 Oct 1928 Died)
Hippolyte Tréhiou † (15 Apr 1929 Appointed – 9 Jan 1941 Died)
Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec † (11 Oct 1941 Appointed – 24 Sep 1964 Retired)
Pierre-Auguste-Marie Boussard † (24 Sep 1964 Appointed – 16 Nov 1991 Retired)
François-Mathurin Gourvès † (16 Nov 1991 Succeeded – 28 Jun 2005 Retired)
Raymond Michel René Centène (28 Jun 2005 Appointed – present)
References
Bibliography
Reference works
Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873).
Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo . Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 649–650. (Use with caution; obsolete)
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913).
Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) pp. 520.
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914).
Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 264.
Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923).
Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 329.
Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935).
Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667) . Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06 . pp. 362.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952).
Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730) . Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06 . pp. 408.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958).
Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799) . Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06 . p. 436.
Studies
Chadwick, Nora Kershaw (1969).
Early Brittany . Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
ISBN
9780900768262 .
Duchesne, Louis (1910).
Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises . Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French) pp. 375–379.
Hauréau, Barthélemy (1856).
Gallia Christiana: In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa... De provincia Turonensi (in Latin). Vol. Tomus Quartus decimus (XIV). Paris: Typographia Regia. pp. 915–970, Instrumenta , pp. 209–224.
Jean, Armand (1891).
Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. pp.
454 –458.
Leguay, Jean-Pierre (1988).
Histoire de Vannes et de sa région (in French). Toulouse: Privat.
ISBN
9782708982727 .
Le Mené, Joseph-Marie (1888).
Histoire du diocèse de Vannes (in French). Vol. Tomes I et II. Vannes: E. Lafolye.
Morice, Pierre-Hyacinthe (1742).
Mémoires pour servir de preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne: tirés des archives de cette province, de celles de France et d'Angleterre, des recueils de plusieurs sçavans antiquaires, et mis en ordre, par Dom Hyacinthe Morice,... Tome I [-III] (in French and Latin). Vol. Tome I (de 3). Paris: Charles Osmont.
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