Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux

Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat

*Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis*

Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat; Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis; Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
	Périgueux Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Bordeaux
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Statistics
Area	9,060 km2 (3,500 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2013); 412,082; 355,900 (86.4%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St. Front in Périgueux
Patron saint	Saint Front
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Philippe Mousset
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jean-Paul James
Bishops emeritus	Michel Mouïsse
Map
Website
	www.diocese24.catholique.fr

The Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat (Latin: Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis; French: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Its episcopal see is Périgueux, in the département of Dordogne, in the région of Aquitaine. The Diocese of Périgueux is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux. The current bishop is Philippe Mousset, who was appointed in 2014.

History

The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361.

Among its bishops are:

Raymond V, Cardinal of Pons (1220–1223)
the future cardinal, Hélie de Bourdeilles (1447–1468)
Claude de Longwy, Cardinal of Givry, who was only the administrator, not the bishop, from 27 August 1540 to 27 August 1541.^[1]
the future Cardinal Gousset (1836–1840), subsequently Archbishop of Reims.

The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of Pope Eugene III (1153). About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by pope John XXII, on 13 January 1318.

Bishops

to 1000

Saint Front^[2]
Agnan
Chronope I
c. 356: Paterne
c. 380: Gavide
c. 410: Pégase
c. 506 – c. 533: Chronope II
c. 540: Sabaude
c. 582: Chartier
c. 590: Saffaire
c. 629: Austier
c. 767 – c. 778: Bertrand
c. 805 – c. 811: Raimond I
c. 844: Ainard
c. 900: Sébaude
977–991: Frotaire
992–1000: Martin

1000–1200

1000–1009: Rodolphe de Coué
1010–1036 or 1037: Arnaud de Vitabre
c. 1037–1059: Géraud de Gourdon
1060–1081: Guillaume I de Montberon
1081–1099: Renaud de Tivier
1100–1101: Raimond II
1102–1129: Guillaume II d'Auberoche
1130–1138: Guillaume III de Nanclars
1138–1142: Geoffroi I de Cauze
1142–1147: Pierre I
1148–1158: Raimond III de Mareuil
1160–1169: Jean I d'Assida
1169–1182: Pierre II Minet
1185–1197: Adhémar I de La Torre
1197–1210: Raimond IV de Châteauneuf

1200–1400

1210–1220: Raoul I de Lastours de Laron
1220–1233: Cardinal Raimond de Pons
1234–1266: Pierre III de Saint-Astier
1267 – c. 1280: Elie I Pilet
c. 1282 – c. 1295: Raimond VI d'Auberoche
1297 – c. 1312: Audouin
1314–1331: Raimond VII
1332–1333: Giraud
1333–1335: Pierre IV
1336–1340: Raimond VIII
1340 – c. 1346: Guillaume IV Audibert
1347–1348: Adhémar II
1349 – c. 1382: Pierre V Pin
1384–1385: Elie II Servient
1387 – c. 1400: Pierre VI de Durfort

1400–1600

c. 1402: Guillaume V Lefèvre
c. 1405: Gabriel I
1407–1408: Raimond IX de Castelnau
1408 – c. 1430: Jean II
1431 – c. 1436: Berenger
1437–1438: Elie III
1438–1439: Pierre VII de Durfort
1440–1441: Raimond X
1441 – c. 1446: Geoffroi II Bérenger d'Arpajon
1447–1463: Elie IV de Bourdeille
1463–1470: Raoul II du Fou (also Bishop of Angoulême)
1470–1485: Geoffroi III de Pompadour (also Bishop of Angoulême)
1486–1500: Gabriel II du Mas
1500–1504: Geoffroi III de Pompadour
1504 – c. 1510: Jean III Auriens
1510–1522: Gui I de Castelnau
1522–1524: Jacques de Castelnau
1524–1532: Jean de Plas
1532–1540: Foucaud de Bonneval
1540–1541: Claude de Longwy, Cardinal de Givry^[3]
1541–1547 Agostino Trivulzio, administrator^[4]
1548–1550: Jean de Lustrac
1551–1552: Geoffroi de Pompadour
1554–1560: Gui II Bouchard d'Aubeterre
1561–1575: Pierre VIII Fournier
1578–1600: François I de Bourdeille

1600–1800

1600–1612: Jean VI Martin
1614–1646: François II de La Béraudière
1646: Jean VII d'Estrades
1646–1652: Philibert de Brandon
1654–1665: Cyr de Villers-la-Faye
1666–1693: Guillaume VI Le Boux^[5]
1693–1702: Daniel de Francheville
1702–1719: Pierre IX Clément
1721–1731: Michel-Pierre d'Argouges
1731–1771: Jean VIII Chrétien de Macheco de Prémeaux
1771–1773: Gabriel III Louis de Rougé
1773–1790: Emmanuel-Louis de Grossoles de Flamarens
1791–1793: Pontaud

from 1800

1817–1836: Alexandre-Charles-Louis-Rose de Lostanges-Saint-Alvère
1835–1840: Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (also Archbishop of Reims)
1840–1860: Jean-Baptiste-Amédée Georges-Massonnais
1861–1863: Charles-Théodore Baudry
1863–1901: Nicolas-Joseph Dabert
1901–1906: François-Marie-Joseph Delamaire
1906–1915: Henri-Louis-Prosper Bougoin
1915–1920: Maurice-Louis-Marie Rivière
1920–1931: Christophe-Louis Légasse
1932–1965: Georges-Auguste Louis
1965–1988: Jacques-Julien-Émile Patria
1988–2004: Gaston Élie Poulain, P.S.S.
2004–2014: Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse
2014–present: Philippe Mousset^[6]

References

^ Gulik, Guilelmus van; Konrad Eubel (1923). L. Schmitz-Kallenberg (ed.). Hierarchia catholica medii aevi (in Latin). Vol. III (editio altera ed.). Münster: sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae. p. 272.
^ Louis Duchesne (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. pp. 130–134.
^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – Consistory of November 7, 1533
^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – Consistory of July 1, 1517
^ Le Boux was nominated to the See of Perigord by King Louis XIV on 1 May 1666, and his bulls of confirmation and consecration were issued by Pope Alexander VII on 15 December 1666: Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 277, with note 6. He died in August 1693.
^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Bishop Philippe Mousset. Retrieved: 2016-07-01.

Bibliography

Reference books

Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 397-398. (in Latin)
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 215.
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 272.
Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592–1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 277.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667–1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. pp. 311–312.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730–1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 334.
Sainte-Marthe, Denis de (1720). Gallia Christiana: In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa... Provinciae Burdigalensis, Bituricensis (in Latin). Vol. Tomus secundus. Paris: Typographia Regia. pp. 1446–1507.