The Archdiocese of Paris (; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622. Before that date the bishops were suffragan to the archbishops of Sens.
History
Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. DenisStiglmayr, Joseph. "St. Denis." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. and his companions, Sts. Rusticus and Eleutherius. Until the Revolution the ancient tradition of the Parisian Church commemorated the seven stations of St. Denis, the stages of his apostolate and martyrdom: (1) the ancient monastery of Notre-Dame-des-Champs of which the crypt, it was said, had been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin by St. Denis on his arrival in Paris; (2) the Church of St-Etienne-des-Grès (now disappeared), which stood on the site of an oratory erected by St. Denis to St. Stephen; (3) the Church of St-Benoît (disappeared), where St. Denis had erected an oratory to the Trinity (Deus Benedictus); (4) the chapel of St-Denis-du-Pas near Notre-Dame (disappeared), on the site of the tribunal of the prefect Sicinnius, who tried St. Denis; (5) the Church of St-Denis-de-la-Châtre, the crypt of which was regarded as the saint's cell (now vanished); (6) Montmartre, where, according to the chronicle written in 836 by Abbot Hilduin, St. Denis was executed; (7) the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
Clovis founded, in honour of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a monastery to which the tomb of St. Genevieve drew numbers of the faithful, and in which St. Clotilde, who died at Tours, was buried.
To form a conception of Paris in the tenth and eleventh centuries, one must picture a network of churches and monasteries surrounded by cultivated farm-lands on the present site of Paris. From the beginning of the twelfth century, the monastic schools of Paris were already famous. The episcopate of Maurice de Sully (1160-96), the son of a simple serf, was marked by the consecration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.Weber, Nicholas. "Maurice de Sully." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912
The title of Duc de Saint-Cloud was created in 1674 for the archbishops.
Prior to 1790 the diocese was divided into three archdeaconries: France, Hurepoix, Brie.
Until the creation of new dioceses in 1966 there were two archdeaconries: Madeleine and St. Séverin. The reform reduced the diocese's size, losing the dioceses of Chartres, Orléans and Blois.
Present day Its suffragan dioceses, created in 1966 and encompassing the Île-de-France region, are Créteil, Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, Meaux, Nanterre, Pontoise, Saint-Denis, and Versailles. Its liturgical centre is at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The archbishop resides on rue Barbet de Jouy in the 6th arrondissement, but there are diocesan offices in rue de la Ville-Eveque, rue St. Bernard and in other areas of the city. The archbishop is ordinary for Eastern Catholics (except Armenians and Ukrainians) in France.
The churches of the current diocese can be divided into several categories:
i) Latin Church parishes. These are grouped into deaneries and subject to vicars-general who often coincide with auxiliary bishops. ii) Churches belonging to religious communities. iii) Chapels for various foreign communities using various languages. iv) Eastern-Church parishes and communities throughout France dependent on the Archbishop as Ordinary of the Ordinariate of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites.
Bishops of Paris To 1000 ?–: Denis (died ), believed to be the first bishop of Paris Mallon Masse Marcus Adventus : Victorinus : Paulus ?–417?: Prudentius 360–436: Marcellus of Paris ???–??: Vivianus (Vivien) ???–??: Felix ???–??: Flavianus ???–??: Ursicianus ???–??: Apedinus ???–??: Heraclius (511 – ?) ???–??: Probatius 533–545: Amelius 545–552: Saffarace um 550: Eusebius I 550–576: Germanus 576–591: Ragnemod um 592: Eusebius II ???–??: Faramonde um 601: Simplicius 606–614: Ceraunus/CeranMatthew Bunson and Stephen Bunson, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints (2003), p. 202. Gendulf 625–626: Leudébert (Léodebert) ?-650: AudobertusHarper, John N., "There are four saints named Landry in Catholicism. Who was ours?", Daily Advertiser, November 4, 2013 650–661: Landericus (Landry) 661–663: Chrodobertus ???–??: Sigebrand († 664) ???–666: Importunus 666–680: AgilbertFouracre, P., "Agilbert" in M. Lapidge, et al., (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999 690–692: Sigefroi 693–698: Turnoald ???–??: Adulphe ???–??: Bernechaire († 722) 722–730: Hugh of Champagne ???–??: Agilbert ???–??: Merseidus ???–??: Fédole ???–??: Ragnecapt ???–??: Radbert ???–??: Madalbert (Maubert) 757-775: Déodefroi 775–795: Eschenradus Jouy le Moutier, cartes postales et photographies anciennes, page 4 ???–??: Ermanfroi (809?) 811–831: Inchad 831/2–857: Erchanrad II. 858–870: Aeneas 871–883: Ingelvin 884–886: Goslin 886–911: Anscharic (Chancellor 892, 894–896 and 900–910) 911–922: Theodulphe 922–926: Fulrad 927–: Adelhelme 937–941: Walter I., son of Raoul Tourte : Constantius 950–977: Albert of Flanders ???–??: Garin 979–980: Rainald I. (Renaud) 984–989: Lisiard († 19. April 989)J. Depoin: "Essai sur la chronologie des évêques de Paris, S. 17 991–992: Gislebert (Engelbert) († 992) 991–1017: Renaud of Vendôme
1000 to 1300 1061–1095: Geoffroy de Boulogne 1096–1101: Guillaume de Montfort 1104–1116: Galo/Walo 1116–1123: Guibert –1141: Stephen of Senlis –1159: Theobald 1159–1160: Peter Lombard 1160–1196: Maurice de Sully 1196–1208: Odo de Sully 1208–1219: Pierre de La Chapelle (Peter of Nemours) 1220–1223: William of Seignelay, Guillaume de Seignelay (previously bishop of Auxerre) 1224–1227: Barthélmy 1228–1249: William of Auvergne 1249–1249: Walter de Château-Thierry (June to 23 September) (Gautier de Château-Thierry) 1250–1268: Renaud Mignon de Corbeil 1268–1279: Étienne Tempier 1280–1280: Jean de Allodio (23 March 1280) 1280–1288: Renaud de Hombliéres : Adenolfus de Anagnia 1290–1304: Simon Matifas de Bucy (Matifardi)
1300 to 1500 1304–1319: Guillaume de Baufet 1319–1325: Étienne de Bouret 1325–1332: Hugues Michel de Besançon 1332–1342: Guillaume de Chanac (d. 1348) 1342–1349: Foulques de Chanac 1349–1350: Audoin-Aubert 1350–1352: Pierre de Lafôret 1353–1363: Jean de Meulan (also Bishop of Noyon) 1362–1368: Etienne de Poissy 1368–1383: Aymeric de Magnac 1383–1409: Pierre d'Orgemont, translated from bishop of Thérouanne 1409–1420: Gérard de Montaigu, translated from Poitiers (1409) 1420–1421: Jean Courtecuisse 1421–1422: Jean de La Rochetaillée, translated to Rouen (1422) 1423–1426: Jean IV de Nant, translated from Vienne (1423) 1427–1438: Jacques du Chastelier(Châtelier) 1439–1447: Denis du Moulin 1447–1472: Guillaume Chartier 1473–1492: Louis de Beaumont de la Forêt 1492?–1492/1493?: Gérard Gobaille 1492–1502: Jean-Simon de Champigny
From 1500 1503–1519: Étienne de Poncher 1519–1532: François Poncher 1532–1541: Jean du Bellay 1551–1563: Eustache du Bellay 1564–1568: Guillaume Viole 1573–1598: Pierre de Gondi 1598–1622: Henri de Gondi
Archbishops of Paris
Auxiliary bishops 1919–1926: Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin 1922–1943: Emmanuel Chaptal 1954–1962: Jean Rupp 1968–1981: Daniel Pézeril 1977–1982: Émile Marcus, P.S.S. 1979–1980: Paul Poupard 1986–1997: Claude Frikart 1988–1999: André Vingt-Trois 1996–2000: Éric Aumonier 1997–2006: Pierre d'Ornellas 2006–: Jean-Yves Nahmias 2006– 2018: Jérôme Daniel Beau 2008–: Renauld de Dinechin 2008–2018: Éric de Moulins-Beaufort 2013–2014: Michel Aupetit 2016–2023: Thibault Verny 2016–2021: Denis Jachiet 2019–: Philippe Marsset
See also Catholic Church in France List of Catholic dioceses in France List of religious buildings in Paris List of Roman Catholic archdioceses
Notes
Bibliography Reference works (Use with caution; obsolete)
Studies Andrieu, Jeanne-Marie Tuffery. Le concile national en 1797 et en 1801 à Paris: l'Abbé Grégoire et l'utopie d'une Eglise républicaine. . Bern: Peter Lang, 2007.
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