Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes

Diocese of Vannes
Dioecesis Venetensis
Diocèse de Vannes

Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Rennes
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rennes
Statistics
Area 7,092 km2 (2,738 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2014)
727,000
583,000 (80.2%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established 5th Century
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of St Peter in Vannes
Patron saint St Padarn
Secular priests 261 (diocesan)
94 (religious orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Raymond Centène
Metropolitan Archbishop Pierre d'Ornellas
Emeritus Bishops François-Mathurin Gourvès Bishop Emeritus (since 2005)
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes (Lat. Venetensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman 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. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop, since his appointment in 2005.

History

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

to 1600

1600 to 1800

since 1800

References

  1. William Allan McNair (1972). In search of the four musketeers. Sydney: Alpha Books., especially Chapter 18.
  2. Cazet de Vautorte had previously been Bishop of Lectoure (1655-1671). He was nominated to Vannes by Louis XIV on 28 January 1671, and approved by Pope Clement IX on 22 June 1671. He died in Vannes either on 13 or 27 December 1671. Jean, pp. 454-455. Ritzler, V, p. 408 and n. 3.
  3. Pancemont was appointed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and consecrated at Notre-Dame de Paris by the Papal Legate, Cardinal Caprara. Ch. Hamel (1901). Histoire de l'église de Saint-Sulpice ... (in French). Paris: V. Lecoffre. pp. 90–102.

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Coordinates: 47°39′08″N 2°44′25″W / 47.65222°N 2.74028°W / 47.65222; -2.74028

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