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| Diocese of Versailles Dioecesis Versaliensis Diocèse de Versailles | |
|---|---|
 Versailles Cathedral | |
| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Paris |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Paris |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 2,270 km (880 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2022) 1,441,398 929,000 (64.5%) |
| Parishes | 65 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 29 November 1801 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Louis in Versailles |
| Patron saint | St. Louis IX of France |
| Secular priests | 176 (Diocesan) 28 (Religious Orders) 67 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Luc Crépy |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Laurent Ulrich |
| Bishops emeritus | Éric Aumonier |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| Website of the Diocese | |
The Diocese of Versailles (Latin: Dioecesis Versaliensis; French: Diocèse de Versailles) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versailles, was established in 1801. Until then, its territory had mostly been part of the Archdiocese of Paris and the Diocese of Chartres. It was centred on Versailles.
History
On its creation, the territory of the diocese of Versailles corresponded to the département of Seine-et-Oise. Following the boundary changes of the départements of Île-de-France, new dioceses were established on 9 October 1966. The diocese of Versailles was therefore modified to correspond to the département of Yvelines, following the creation of the Dioceses of Évry–Corbeil-Essones, Nanterre, Saint-Denis, Créteil, Pontoise.
Bishops of Versailles
- Louis Charrier de La Roche (1802–1827)
- Jean-François-Étienne Borderies (1827–1832)
- Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1832–1844)
- Jean-Nicaise Gros (1844–1857)
- Jean-Pierre Mabille (1858–1877)
- Pierre-Antoine-Paul Goux (1877–1904)
- Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier (1906–1931)
- Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin (1931–1952)
- Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard (1953–1967)
- Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux (1967–1988)
- Jean-Charles Thomas (1988–2001)
- Éric Aumonier (2001–2020)
- Lucien Crepy (2021–present)
The native bishops of Versailles
- Thierry Jordan, archbishop of Reims
- Stanislas Lalanne, bishop of Coutances et Avranches
- Olivier de Berranger, bishop of Saint-Denis
- Pascal Roland, bishop of Moulins
- Albert Malbois, bishop emeritus of Évry
References
Sources
- Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères. pp. 346–350.
External links
Media related to Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles at Wikimedia Commons- (in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
- (in French) Official site of the diocese
- (in English) Diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org
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| Catholic Church in France | |
|---|---|
| Bishops' Conference of France | |
| Province of Besançon | |
| Province of Bordeaux | |
| Province of Clermont | |
| Province of Dijon | |
| Province of Lille | |
| Province of Lyon | |
| Province of Marseille | |
| Province of Montpellier | |
| Province of Paris | |
| Province of Poitiers | |
| Province of Reims | |
| Province of Rennes | |
| Province of Rouen | |
| Province of Toulouse | |
| Province of Tours | |
| Province of Martinique | |
| Province of Papeete | |
| Province of Noumea | |
| Directly under Holy See | |
| Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics | |
| See also | |
