Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: France - third draft

See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.

This is just a working draft, only posted to make it easier for collaborators to assist in perfecting the list. The draft ought not be trusted at this stage. Claes.Tande@katolsk.no

40-100

Limoges - France

40-100

Marseille - France

40-100

Sens - France

40-200 (Apostolic origin alleged, existed definitely before 600)

Ajaccio - France

40-500

Aix (Apostolic origin alleged, 5. Century more likely) - France

100-200

Bayeux - France

100-200

Besançon - France

100-200

Lyon - France

100-200

Rouen - France

100-200

Albi - France

100-200

Angoulême - France

100-200

Autun - France

100-200

Beauvais - France

100-200

Bordeaux (Metr.) - France

100-200

Bourges - France

100-200

Chartres - France

100-200

Clermont - France

100-200

Evreux - France

100-200

Langres - France

100-200

Le Puy-en-Velay - France

100-200

Lyon (Metr.) - France

100-200

Maguellonne - France

100-200

Meaux - France

100-200

Mende - France

100-200

Metz - France

100-200

Nice - France

100-200

Orléans - France

100-200

Poitiers - France

100-200

Reims - France

100-200

Saintes - France

100-200

Sées - France

100-200

Sens (Metr.) - France

100-200

Soissons - France

100-200

Vesuna / Périgueux - France

200-453

Rennes - France

220 (maybe legendary, but certainly before 325)

Die - France

240-254

Arles - France

250~

Paris - France

250~

Narbonne - France

250~

Toulouse - France

250~

Tours - France

250-280

Vienne - France

257-300

Auxerre - France

300-400

Aps / Viviers - France

300-400

Avignon - France

300-400

Besançon (Metr.) - France

300-400

Chalons - France

300-400

Cimiez - France

300-400

Digne - France

300-400

Fréjus - France

300-400

Gap - France

300-400

Grenoble - France

300-400

Marseille (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Narbonne, later the same century D again) - France

300-400

Nevers - France

300-400

Reims (Metr.) - France

300-400 (or 500-600?, apostolic origin alleged)

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - France

300-400

Strasbourg - France

300-400

Tarbes - France

300-400

Valence - France

300-400

Verdun - France

300-500

Bayonne - France

300-500

Lectoure - France

300-500

Le Mans - France

300-500

Couserans - France

300-500

Vernay - France

300~

Amiens - France

320-350

Agen - France

330-344~

Troyes - France

350-400

Antibes - France

350-410

Apt - France

354?

Embrun - France

372

Angers - France

374

Nantes - France

400-450

Darantasia / Tarentaise - France

400-465

Vannes - France

400-500

Rouen (Metr.) - France

400-500

Tours (Metr.) - France

400-500

Agde - France

400-500

Belley - France

400-500

Boulogne - France

400-500

Comminges - France

400-500

Coutrances - France

400-500

Acqs / Dax - France

400-500

Laon - France

400-500

Mariana - (Corsica) France

400-500

Nebbio - (Corsica) France

400-500

Nîmes - France

400-500

Rodez - France

400-500

Saint-Brieuc - France

400-500

Aire - France

400~

Auch - France

400~

Cahors - France

417

Arles (Metr.) - France

419-439

Vence - France

444

Quimper - France

445

Narbonne (Metr.) - France

445

Vienne (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Arles) - France

465

Cimiez (incorporated in Nice) - France

499

Arras (detached from Reims) - France (or F 540?)

500-600

Lescar - France

500-600

Oloron - France

500-600

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - France

529~

Saint-Pol-de-Léon - France

531

Noyon - France

533

Carcassonne - France

571~

Elne / later transferred to Perpignan - France

580

Cambrai (new name, previously Arras, whence the see was moved) - France

591~

Aleria (detached from ....) - France

600-700

Thérouanne (detached from ....) - France

794

Aix (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Arles) - France

794

Embrun (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Arles) - France

794

Tarentaise (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Vienne) - France

824

Acci / Accia - (Corsica) France

848

Dol (Metr., erected by Duke Nominoë of Brittany, detached from ....) - France

848

Tréguier (erected by Duke Nominoë of Brittany, detached from ....) - France

879

Auch (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Eauze) - France

879

Eauze (Metr. incorporated in Auch) - France

1093

Arras (detached from Cambrai) - France

1146

Noyon (detached from Tournai and Noyon) - France

1244

Grasse (new name, previously Antibes) - France

1275

Die (joined to Valence) - France

1275

Valence and Die (new name after Die joined Valence) - France

1295

Pamiers (detached from Toulouse) - France

1317

Alet (detached from Narbonne) - France

1317

Castres (detached from Albi) - France

1317

Condom (detached from Agen) - France

1317

Lavaur (detached from Toulouse) - France

1317

Lombez (detached from Toulouse) - France

1317

Luçon (detached from Poitiers) - France

1317

Maillezais (detached from Poitiers) - France

1317

Mirepoix (detached from Pamiers) - France

1317

Montauban (detached from Toulouse, and from Cahors) - France

1317

Rieux (detached from Pamiers) - France

1317

Saint-Papoul (detached from Toulouse) - France

1317

Saint-Pons (detached from Narbonne) - France

1317

Saint-Flour (detached from Clermont) - France

1317

Sarlat (detached from Périgueux) - France

1317

Toulouse (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Narbonne) - France

1317

Tulle (detached from Limoges) - France

1317

Vabres (detached from Rodez) - France

1475

Avignon (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Arles) - France

1536

Montpéllier (new name, previously Maguelonne) - France

1553

Boulogne (reestablished, detached from ....) - France

1559

Cambrai (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Reims) - France

1559

Thérouanne - France

1559

Saint-Omer (detached from Thérouanne) - France

1563

Accia [Acci] and Mariana (merged) - France

1567

Boulogne (new name, See transferred from Thérouanne) - France

1601

Perpignan-Elne - France

1622

Paris (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Sens) - France

1648

La Rochelle (detached from Saintes, and including all of the suppressed D Maillezais) - France

1648

Maillezais (suppressed, incorporated in La Rochelle) - France

1678

Albi (Metr., was considered part of the Metropolitan Province of Bourges -

Note: It seems that the Metropolitan status of Bourges was never recognized

by Rome) - France

1687

Die (detached from Valence - by King Louis XIV) - France'

1687

Valence (new name, previously Valence and Die) - France

1697

Blois (detached from Chartres) - France

1731

Dijon (detached from Langres) - France

1742

Saint-Claude (Abb., suppressed, incorporated in the new D Saint-Claude) - France

1742

Saint-Claude (detached from Saint-Claude [Abb.], from Besançon, and from Lyon) - France

1777

Nancy (detached from Toul) - France

1777

Saint-Dié (detached from Toul) - France

1779

Chambéry (detached from Grenoble) - France

1788

Moulins (detached from Autun) - France

1789

Moulins (abolished, reincorporated in Autun) - France

1801

Accia and Mariana (suppressed, incorporated in Ajaccio) - France

1801

Agde (suppressed, incorporated in Montpellier) - France

1801

Aire (suppressed, incorporated in Bayonne, and in Bordeaux) - France

1801

Albi (Metr., suppressed, incorporated in Montpellier) - France

1801

Aleria (suppressed, incorporated in Ajaccio) - France

1801

Alès (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon, and in Mende) - France

1801

Alet (suppressed, incorporated in Carcassonne) - France

1801

Apt (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon, and in Digne) - France

1801

Arles (Metr., suppressed, incorporated in Aix) - France

1801

Auch (suppressed, incorporated in Agen) - France

1801

Auxerre (suppressed, incorporated in Troyes) - France

1801

Avignon (D, previously Metr.) - France

1801

Avranches (suppressed, incorporated in Coutances) - France

1801

Beauvais (suppressed, incorporated in Amiens) - France

1801

Belley (suppressed, incorporated in Lyon) - France

1801

Blois (suppressed, incorporated in Orléans) - France

1801

Boulogne (suppressed, incorporated in Arras) - France

1801

Bourges (Metr., defined as Metr. by the Concordat of 1801, had locally been

regarded a Metr. for centuries) - France

1801

Cambrai (D, previously Metr.) - France

1801

Carpentras (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Castres (suppressed, incorporated in Montpellier) - France

1801

Cavaillon (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Chalon [-sur-Saône] (suppressed, incorporated in Autun) - France

1801

Chalons [-sur-Marne] (suppressed, incorporated in Meaux) - France

1801

Chartres (suppressed, incorporated in Versailles) - France

1801

Clamecy (suppressed, incorporated in Autun) - France

1801

Comminges / Saint-Bernard de Comminges (suppressed, incorporated in Toulouse, and in Bayonne) - France

1801

Condom (suppressed, incorporated in Agen) - France

1801

Couserans (suppressed, incorporated in Toulouse) - France

1801

Die (suppressed, incorporated in Valence, and in Grenoble) - France

1801

Dol (suppressed, incorporated in Rennes, and in Saint-Brieuc) - France

1801

Embrun (Metr., suppressed, incorporated in Digne) - France

1801

Fréjus (suppressed, incorporated in Aix) - France

1801

Gap (suppressed, incorporated in Digne, and in Grenoble ....) - France

1801

Glandèves (suppressed, incorporated in Nice, and in Digne ...) - France

1801

Grasse (suppressed, incorporated in Nice) - France

1801

Langres (suppressed, incorporated in Dijon, and in Troyes) - France

1801

Laon (suppressed, incorporated in Soissons) - France

1801

Lavaur (suppressed, incorporated in Montpellier) - France

1801

Lectoure (suppressed, incorporated in Agen, and in Toulouse ....) - France

1801

Le Puy-en-Velay (suppressed, incorporated in Clermont ....) - France

1801

Lescar (suppressed, incorporated in Bayonne, and in Agen ....) - France

1801

Lisieux (suppressed, incorporated in Bayeux, in Sées, and in Evreux) - France

1801

Lombez (suppressed, incorporated in Bayonne, and in Toulouse ....) - France

1801

Luçon (suppressed, incorporated in La Rochelle) - France

1801

Mâcon (suppressed, incorporated in Autun, and in Lyon) - France

1801

Marseille (suppressed, incorporated in Aix) - France

1801

Mirepoix (suppressed, incorporated in Carcassonne, and in Toulouse) - France

1801

Montauban (suppressed, incorporated in Toulouse) - France

1801

Narbonne (suppressed, incorporated in Carcassonne, and in Montpellier) - France

1801

Nebbio (suppressed, incorporated in Ajaccio) - France

1801

Nevers (suppressed, incorporated in Bourges) - France

1801

Nîmes (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Noyon (suppressed, incorporated in Amiens) - France

1801

Orange (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Pamiers (suppressed, incorporated in Toulouse) - France

1801

Périgueux (suppressed, incorporated in Angoulême) - France

1801

Perpignan-Elne (suppressed, incorporated in Carcassonne) - France

1801

Reims (suppressed, incorporated in Meaux, and in Metz) - France

1801

Rieux (suppressed, incorporated in Toulouse) - France

1801

Riez (suppressed, incorporated in Aix, and in Digne) - France

1801

Rodez (suppressed, incorporated in Cahors, and in Saint-Flour) - France

1801

Sagone (suppressed, incorporated in Ajaccio) - France

1801

Saint-Claude (suppressed, incorporated in Besançon) - France

1801

Saint-Dié (suppressed, incorporated in Nancy) - France

1801

Saintes (suppressed, incorporated in La Rochelle, in Angoulême, and in Poitiers) - France

1801

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (suppressed, incorporated in Chambéry) - France

1801

Saint-Malo (suppressed, incorporated in Rennes, in Vannes, and in Sait-Brieuc) - France

1801

Saint-Omer (suppressed, incorporated in Arras) - France

1801

Saint-Papoul (suppressed, incorporated in Carcassone, and in Toulouse) - France

1801

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (suppressed, incorporated in Valence, and in Avignon) - France

1801

Saint-Pol-de-Léon (suppressed, incorporated in Quimper) - France

1801

Saint-Pons (suppressed, incorporated in Montpellier) - France

1801

Sarlat (suppressed, incorporated in Angoulême) - France

1801

Senez (suppressed, incorporated in Digne) - France

1801

Senlis (incorporated in Beauvais) - France

1801

Sens (suppressed, incorporated in Troyes) - France

1801

Sisteron (suppressed, incorporated in Digne) - France

1801

Tarbes (suppressed, incorporated in Bayonne, and in Agen) - France

1801

Tarentaise / Moutiers-en-Tarentaise (suppressed, incorporated in Chambéry) - France

1801

Toulon (suppressed, incorporated in Aix) - France

1801

Tréguier (suppressed, incorporated in Saint-Brieuc, and in Quimper) - France

1801

Tulle (suppressed, incorporated in Limoges) - France

1801

Uzés (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Vaison (suppressed, incorporated in Avignon) - France

1801

Vabres (suppressed, incorporated in Cahors, and in Montpellier) - France

1801

Vence (suppressed, incorporated in Nice) - France

1801

Verdun (suppressed, incorporated in Nancy) - France

1801

Versailles (detached from Paris, and from Chartres) - France

1801

Vienne (Metr., suppressed, territory incorporated in Grenoble, and in Valence, but the title [name] Vienne adduced to Lyon) - France

1801

Viviers (suppressed, incorporated in Mende) - France

1817

Arles (Metr., reestablished, detached from Aix) - France

1817

Auxerre (reestablished, detached from Troyes) - France

1817

Chambéry (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Lyon) - France

1817

Moulins (reestablished, detached from Autun, from Bourges, and from Clermont-Ferrand) - France

1817

Noyon (reestablished, detached from Amiens [the bulls had no effect, and it was suppressed again in 1822]) - France

1821

Auxerre (suppressed, incorporated in Sens) - France

1822

Aire (reestablished, detached from Bayonne) - France

1822

Albi (Metr., reestablished, detached from Montpellier, which was part of the Metropolitan Province of Toulouse) - France

1822

Annecy (detached from Chambéry) - France

1822

Arles (Metr., incorporated in Aix) - France

1822

Auch (reestablished, detached from Agen) - France

1822

Avignon (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Aix) - France

1822

Beauvais (reestablished, detached from Amiens) - France

1822

Belley (reestablished, detached from Lyon) - France

1822

Blois (reestablished, detached from Orléans) - France

1822

Chalons (reestablished, detached from Reims) - France

1822

Chartres (reestablished, detached from Versailles) - France

1822

Embrun (title adjoined to Aix) - France

1822

Fréjus (reestablished, detached from Avignon) - France

1822

Gap (reestablished, with territory but not title from Embrun) - France

1822

Langres (reestablished, detached from Dijon) - France

1822

Le Puy-en-Velay (reestablished, detached from Saint-Flour) - France

1822

Luçon (reestablished, detached from La Rochelle) - France

1822

Marseille (reestablished, detached from Aix) - France

1822

Montauban (reestablished, detached from Toulouse) - France

1822

Narbonne (incorporated in Toulouse) - France

1822

Nevers (reestablished, detached from Bourges) - France

1822

Nîmes (reestablished, detached from Avignon) - France

1822

Noyon (suppressed, incorporated in Amiens) - France

1822

Pamiers (reestablished, detached from Toulouse) - France

1822

Périgueux (reestablished, detached from Angoulême) - France

1822

Perpignan-Elne (reestablished, detached from Carcassonne) - France

1822

Reims (reestablished, detached from Meaux, and from Metz) - France

1822

Rodez (reestablished, detached from Cahors) - France

1822

Saint-Claude (reestablished, detached from Besançon) - France

1822

Saint-Dié (reestablished, detached from Nancy) - France

1822

Sens (Metr., reestablished, detached from Troyes, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Paris) - France

1822

Tarbes (reestablished, detached from Bayonne) - France

1822

Tulle (reestablished, detached from Limoges) - France

1822

Verdun (reestablished, detached from Nancy) - France

1822

Viviers (reestablished, detached from Mende) - France

1824

Toul (incorporated in Nancy) - France

1825

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (reestablished, detached from Chambéry) - (Savoia) France

1825

Tarentaise / Moutiers-en-Tarentaise (reestablished, detached from Chambéry) - (Savoia) France

1828

Laon (title added to Soissons) - France

1841

Cambrai (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Paris) - France

1851

Noyon (title added to Beauvais) - France

1851

Senlis (title added to Beauvais) - France

1852

Tréguier (title added to Saint-Brieuc) - France

1853

Chalon-sur-Saône (title added to Autun) - France

1853

Leon (title added to Quimper) - France

1853

Mâcon (title added to Autun) - France

1855

Laval (detached from Le Mans, and from Angers) - France

1855

Lisieux (title added to Bayeux) - France

1857

Dax (title added to Aire) - France

1859

Rennes (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Tours) - France

1875

Vabres (title added to Rodez) - France

1877

Apt (title added to Avignon) - France

1877

Carpentras (title added to Avignon) - France

1877

Cavaillon (title added to Avignon) - France

1877

Orange (title added to Avignon) - France

1877

Vaison (title added to Avignon) - France

1880

Dol (title added to Rennes) - France

1880

Saint-Malo (title added to Rennes) - France

1901

Saint-Quentin (title added to Soissons) - France

1908

Condom (title added to Auch) - France

1908

Lectoure (title added to Auch) - France

1908

Lombez (title added to Auch) - France

1909

Lescar (title added to Bayonne) - France

1909

Oloron (title added to Bayonne) - France

1910

Couserans (title added to Pamiers) - France

1910

Mirepoix (title added to Pamiers) - France

1912

Tarbes et Lourdes (new name, previously Tarbes) - France

1913

Lille (detached from Cambrai) - France

1916

Riez (title added to Digne) - France

1916

Sisteron (title added to in Digne) - France

1935

Rieux (title added to Toulouse) - France

1935

Saint-Bernard de Comminges (title added to Toulouse) - France

1937

Bazas (title added to Bordeaux) - France

1948

Marseille (AD, was part of the Metropolitan province of Aix) - France

1952

France (Mil.Ord.) - France

1954

France [for Orientals without an Ordinary of their own Rite] (ApEx) - France

1954

Mission de France / Pontigny (Prel., detached from Sens) - France

1957

Fréjus-Toulon (new name, previously Fréjus) - France

1960

France [Arm.] (ApEx) - France

1962

Cluny (abb., incorporated in Autun) - France

1966

Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, et Tarentaise (Metr.) (united) - France

1966

Corbeil (detached from Versailles) - France

1966

Créteil (detached from Paris, and from Versailles) - France

1966

Nanterre (detached from Paris, and from Versailles) - France

1966

Pontoise (detached from Versailles) - France

1966

Saint-Denis (detached from Paris, and from Versailles) - France

1970

Saint-Etienne (detached from Lyon) - France

1974

Le Havre (detached from Rouen) - France

1979

Belfort-Montbéliard (detached from Besançon) - France

1986

Sainte-Croix-de-Paris [Arm.] (new name, previously France, ApEx) - France

1988

Belley-Ars (new name, previously Belley) - France

1988

Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes (new name, previously Corbeil) - France

1988

Strasbourg (AD) - France

2002

Aix (AD, previously Metr.) - France

2002

Albi (AD, previously Metr.) - France

2002

Auch (AD, previously Metr.) - France

2002

Avignon (AD, previously Metr.) - France

2002

Bourges (AD, previously Metr.) - France

2002

Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Tarentaise (AD, previously Metr.) -

France

2002

Clermont (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bourges) - France

2002

Dijon (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Lyon) - France

2002

Marseille (Metr., previously AD) - France

2002

Montpellier (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Avignon) -

France

2002

Poitiers (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bordeaux) - France

2002

Sens (AD, previously Metr.) - France