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Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodève
Former Roman Catholic diocese in southern France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bishopric of Lodève is a former Roman Catholic diocese in southern France. Its episcopal see was located in Lodève, in the modern department of Hérault. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Narbonne.[1] Its territory is now part of the archdiocese of Montpellier.
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The seat of the bishop was in the cathedral of Saint Genesius (Saint Genès), dedicated in 975.[2]
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Since the 14th century local tradition has made St. Florus first bishop of Lodève, and relates that as a disciple of St. Peter, he afterwards evangelized Haute-Auvergne and died in the present village of Saint-Flour.
Bishops of Lodève are believed to have existed since 421.[3] The first bishop known by name is Maternus, who was present at the Council of Agde in 506.
Among the bishops of Lodève are: George of Lodève (863–884), previously a Benedictine monk; St. Fulcran (949–1006), who in 975 dedicated the cathedral of St. Genès and founded the Abbey of St. Sauveur;[4] Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville (1450–1453), who played an important part as papal legate, and also in the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc; the brothers Guillaume Briçonnet (1489–1516) and Denis Briçonnet (1516–1520).
In 1210, King Philip II confirmed the possessions and rights of the Church of Lodève, and granted the bishops full temporal and ecclesiastical jurisdiction.[5] On 13 May 1302, King Philip IV confirmed the complete jurisdiction temporal and ecclesiastical, of the bishops of Lodève over the diocese of Lodève.[6]
The Dominican inquisitor and historian, Bernard Gui (1324–1331), who had been Bishop of Tuy (Spain), was appointed Bishop of Lodève by Pope John XXII on 20 July 1324.[7] He made his ceremonial entry on 15 October, the feast day of the dedication of the cathedral.[8] In May 1336, Bishop Bernard changed the dignity of archpriest into the office of archpriest and vicar general, with the care of souls, though still retaining his place in the choir and his vote in the Chapter.[9] He had notaries compile four volumes of the old documents concerning feudal grants and other privileges of the bishops; another volume entitled Registrum privilegiorum et ecclesiarum episcopatus Lodovensis; and a Cronica de episcopis Lodovensibus.[10]
The cathedral of Saint Genesius was served and administered by a corporation called the Chapter, consisting of thirteen canons, including the dignities of archdeacon, sacristan, precentor, and archpriest.[11] In 1625, there were three dignities and nine canons.[12] In 1690 and in 1750, three dignities and twelve canons are recorded.[13] Bishop Pierre de la Treille (1430–1441) and the Chapter agreed on a set of statutes for the Chapter in 1440.[14]
French Revolution
The National Constituent Assembly ordered the replacement of political subdivisions of the ancien régime with subdivisions called "departments", to be characterized by a single administrative city in the center of a compact area. The decree was passed on 22 December 1789, and the boundaries fixed on 26 February 1790, with the effective date of 4 March 1790.[15] A new department was created, called "Hérault", and its meeting center rotated amoung Montpellier, Béziers, Lodève, and Saint-Pons.[16]
The National Constituent Assembly then, on 6 February 1790, instructed its ecclesiastical committee to prepare a plan for the reorganization of the clergy. At the end of May, its work was presented as a draft Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which, after vigorous debate, was approved on 12 July 1790. There was to be one diocese in each department, a policy later adhered to by Napoleon.[17] Under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the seat of the Constitutional diocese of Hérault was fixed at Béziers, and the diocese of Lodève was consequently suppressed, its territory becoming part of the diocese of Hérault.[18]
The French Directory fell in the coup engineered by Talleyrand and Napoleon on 10 November 1799. The coup resulted in the establishment of the French Consulate, with Napoleon as the First Consul. To advance his aggressive military foreign policy, he decided to make peace with the Catholic Church in France and with the Papacy.[19] In the concordat of 1801 with Pope Pius VII, and in the enabling papal bull, "Qui Christi Domini", the constitutional diocese of Hérault and all the other dioceses in France, including the diocese of Lodève, were suppressed. This removed all the institutional contaminations and novelties introduced by the Constitutional Church, and voided all of the episcopal appointments of both authentic and constitutional bishops.[20] In the new ecclesiastical structure authorized by Pius VII, the departments of Hérault and Tarn were assigned to the restored diocese of Montpellier, and Montpellier was made a suffragan of the metropolitan archbishop of Toulouse.[21] Montpellier became an archdiocese on 8 December 2002.
A papal Brief of Pope Pius IX, of 16 June 1877, authorized the bishops of Montpellier to call themselves bishops of Montpellier, Béziers, Agde, Lodève, and Saint-Pons (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), in memory of the suppressed suffragan dioceses whose territories had at one time or another been added to the archbishopric of Montpellier.
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Bishops of Lodève
To 1000
1000–1300
- Mainfroi 1006–1015
- Olombel 1015–1040
- Bernard I. 1042–1049
- Bernard II. 1050
- Rostaing 1054–ca. 1075
- Bernard III. de Prévenchères 1077–1099
- Dieudonné de Caylus 1100–1102
- Pierre de Raymond 1102–1154[38]
- Pierre II. de Posquières 1155–1161
- Gaucelin de Raymond de Montpeyroux 1162–1182
- Raymond I. Guilhem Madières 1162–1201
- Pierre III. de Frottier 1200–1207
- Pierre IV. de Lodève 1208–1238
- Bertrand de Mornas 1237–1241
- Guillaume I. de Cazouls 1241–1259
- Raymond II. de Bellin 1259–1262
- Raymond III. d'Astolphe de Rocozels 1263–1280
- Bérenger I. de Boussages 1280–1284
- Bérenger II. de Guitard 1285–1290
- Bernard IV. Poitevin 1290–1292
- Gaucelin de la Garde 1292–1296
- Ithier of Bordeaux, O.Min. 1296–1302[39]
1300–1500
- Dieudonné de Boussages 1302–1312[40]
- Bernard V. de Guitard 1313–1313
- Guillaume II. du Puy 1314–1315
- Guillaume III. de Mandagot 1316–1317
- Gui de Perpignan 1317–1318
- Jacques I. de Cabrerets de Coucots 1318–1322
- Jean I. de Tixerandrerie 1322–1324
- Bernard de la Guionie 1324–1331[41]
- Bernard VII. Dumas 1332–1348
- Robert de la Vie 1348–1356
- Gilbert de Montdragon 1357–1361
- Aymeric d'Hugues 1361–1370
- Gui de Malsec 1370–1371
- Jean II. Gastel 1371–1374
- Ferry Cassinel 1374–1382
- Pierre Girard 1382–1385[42]
- Clément de Grammont 1385–1392
- Guillaume IV. de Grimoard 1392–1398
- Jean III. de la Vergne 1399–1413
- Micuel Le Boeuf 1413–1430
- Pierre VI. de la Treille 1430–1441
- Jacques de Gaujac 1441–1450
- Guillaume d'Estouteville 1450–1453
- Jean de Corguilleray 1462–1488
- Guillaume Briçonnet 1489–1516
1500–suppression
- Denis Briçonnet 1516–1520
- René I. du Puy 1520–1524
- Jean Mattei Giberti 1526–1528
- Laurent Toscan 1528–1529
- Lélio des Ursins de Céri 1537–1546
- Gui Ascanio Sforza, Cardinal 1546–1547
- Dominique du Gabre 1547–1557
- Bernard VIII. del Bene 1558–1560
- Michel II. Briçonnet 1560–1561
- Claude Briçonnet 1561–1566
- Pierre VII. de Barrault 1566–1569
- Alphonse Vercelli 1570–1573
- René II. de Biragne 1573–1580
- Christophe de Lestang 1580–1602
- Gérard de Robin 1606–1611[43]
- François de Lévis Ventadour, bishop-elect [1612–1622][44]
- ? Anne de Lévis-Ventadour (Administrator ?)
- Jean VI. Plantavit de la Pause 1625–1651
- François de Bosquet 1648–1655[45]
- Roger de Harlay de Cési 1657–1669
- Jean-Armand de Rotundis de Biscarras 1669–1671
- Jean-Antoine de La Garde de Chambonas 1671–1690[46]
- Jacques-Antoine de Phelypeaux 1690–1732[47]
- Jean-Georges de Souillac 1732–1750[48]
- Jean-Félix-Henri de Fumel 1750–1790[49]
- [ Jean-Georges Gabriel de Levezou 1790 ][50]
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