Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:France - third draft
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- 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
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