Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer

The former French Catholic diocese of Saint-Omer existed from 1559^[1] until the French Revolution. Its see at Saint-Omer, in the modern department of Pas-de-Calais, was created as a reaction to the destruction of the see of Thérouanne, by military action in the wars of the Emperor Charles V. It then became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cambrai in 1559.

Saint-Omer Cathedral

By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Saint-Omer was united with the diocese of Arras and the diocese of Boulogne, to form an enlarged diocese of Arras.^[2]

Bishops

• Guillaume de Poitiers 1561
• Gérard de Haméricourt 1563-1577
• Jean Six 1581-1586
• Jacques de Pamèle 1587
• Jean de Vernois, O.P., 1591-1599
• Jacques Blaseus, O.F.M. Rec., 1600-1618 (previously bishop of Namur)
• Paul Boudot 1618-1626 (then bishop of Arras)
• Pierre Paunet, O.F.M., 1628-1631
• Christophe de Morlet 1632-1633
• Christophe de France 1635-1656
• Ladislas Jonart 1662-1671 (then archbishop of Cambrai)
• Jacques-Théodore de Bryas 1672-1675 (then archbishop of Cambrai)
• Jean Charles de Longueval 1676
• Pierre Van Den Perre 1577
• Armand-Anne-Tristan de La Baume de Suze 1677
• Louis-Alphonse de Valbelle 1677-1708 (previously bishop of Alet)
• François de Valbelle de Tourves 1708-1727
• Joseph-Alphonse de Valbelle de Tourves 1727-1754
• Pierre-Joseph de Brunes de Monlouet 1754-1765 (previously bishop of Dol)
• Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de Conzié 1766-1769 (then bishop of Aire)
• Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié 1769-1775 (then archbishop of Tours)
• Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur 1775-1778 (then bishop of Carcassonne)
• Alexandre-Joseph-Alexis de Bruyère de Chalabre 1778-1790 (1796)

See also

• Catholic Church in France
• List of Catholic dioceses in France