Thursday, 28 August 2014

The Ecclesiastical Divisions of France

The Metropolitan and Primatial Sees [Archdioceses] of France

Roman Catholicism in France

As a general rule the territories of the archdioceses of France were aligned more or less on the political boundaries of the various different duchies and counties. There were some notable exceptions to this.

Bordeaux [Aquitaine and Gascony]
In 1027 the dukes of Gascony and Aquitaine selected a single archbishop to span both their regions. Bourges had claims on the archdiocese of Aquitaine, but these were based on a forgery. Besides the archbishop of Bourges could not enforce this being in land controlled by the king of France. 

Bourges (8th century)
Gauls Lyons- the Gauls (in reality the provinces called Lugdunenses)
Arles, Gaul and Spain
Reims
Vienne, Burgundy, Primate of Primates[21]
Narbonne[1]
Bordeaux[18]
Rouen - Normandy,[22] France[10]
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch, Novempopulania and both Navarres

The Archbishop of Lyons was made by Gregory VII, Primate of the Gauls, in reality of the provinces called formerly "Lugdunenses".  

The Archbishop of Vienne was known as the "Primate of Primates". In 1120 Callistus II, who had been Bishop of Vienne under the name of Guy of Burgundy, decided that the Archbishop of Vienne should have for suffragans the Bishop of Grenoble, Bishop of Valence, Bishop of Die, Bishop of Viviers, Bishop of Geneva, and Bishop of Maurienne; that the Archbishop of Tarantaise should obey him, notwithstanding the fact that this archbishop himself had suffragans, that he should exercise the primacy over the province of Bourges, province of Narbonne, province of Bordeaux, province of Aix, province of Auch and province of Embrun, and that, as the metropolitans of both provinces already bore the title of primate, the Archbishop of Vienne should be known as the "Primate of Primates".

Ecclesiastical Provinces [Archepiscopacies] in Henry II's continental domains

Rouen [Archidioecesis Rothomagensis]
The suffragan dioceses of Rouen in the Middle Ages were Évreux, Avranches, Sées, Bayeux, Lisieux, and Coutances
Carte particulière du Diocèse de Rouen dressée sur les lieux / par Mr Fremont de Dieppe ; sous les yeux et par les Ordres de feu Mre. Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archevêque de Rouen ; Cette carte est. gravée par Berey.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8592290h/f1.zoom.langEN

Tours [and Dol] Archidioecesis Turonensis

The suffragan dioceses of Tours in the Middle Ages were Angers, Le Mans, and in Brittany: Dol, Nantes, Quimper, Rennes, Saint Brieuc, Saint Malo, St Pol de Leon, Trequier, Vannes . 


Auch [Archidioecesis Auxitanus-Condomiensis-Lectoriensis-Lomberiensis]

 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch - Wikipedia

 Carte géographique du diocèse de l'archevêché d'Auch... / par... Moullart-Sanson

Bordeaux [Archidioecesis Burdigalensis-Bazensis]

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux - Wikipedia
Galliae Christianae Aquitanica secunda provincia Burdigalensis / descripta a J.B. Nolin

Bourges

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diocèse de l'archevesché de Bourges en Berri, divisé en ses archiprestrés / par L. Duval...

King of France's Territories


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 Non-Kingdom of France Dioceses

 Callistus II appointed the Archbishop of Vienne with the title of the "Primate of Primates" and have suffragans the Bishop of Grenoble, Bishop of Valence, Bishop of Die, Bishop of Viviers, Bishop of Geneva, and Bishop of Maurienne; that the Archbishop of Tarantaise.  And Vienne would have primacy over the province of Bourges, province of Narbonne, province of Bordeaux, province of Aix, province of Auch and province of Embrun, even though there were included in this there were metropolitans who already bore the title of primates.

Ancient Diocese of Vienne - Wikipedia

 References

List of Ancien Régime dioceses of France - Wikipedia

Gallia Sacra

Claudius Robertus (1626). Gallia Christiana. Cramoisy. pp. 12–.
Goyau, G. (1909). Gallia Christiana. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. 

La France ecclésiastique contenant les archéves chés et éveschés de ce royaume avec leurs noms tant anciens que modernes / par N. de Fer
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53033662t/f1.zoom.r=La%20France%20eccl%C3%A9siastique%20contenant%20les%20arch%C3%A9ves.langEN


Search in Gallica diocèse - 515 results

Gallia Christiana


Denis de Sainte-Marthe; Barthélemy Hauréau (1716). Gallia christiana, in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa Tomus I: ex typographia regia.

Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (1656). Gallia christiana, qua series omnium archiepiscoporum et abbatum Franciae.. Tomus III: Guinard.

Monasterio de la Congregación de San Mauro (Benedictinos); Typographia Regia (París) (1731). Gallia christiana, in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa:  Tomus V: ex Tipographia Regia.

Denis de Sainte-Marthe; Barthélemy Hauréau; Maurists (1785). Gallia Christiana: in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa. Tomus XIII: Coignard.

Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau (1865). Gallia christiana: in provincias ecclesiaticas distributa Tomus XVI: Firmin Didot.

tome 1, 1715 : provinces d'Albi, Aix, Arles, Avignon et Auch.
tome 2, 1720 : provinces de Bourges et Bordeaux.
tome 3, 1725 : provinces de Cambrai, Cologne et Embrun.
tome 4, 1728 : province de Lyon.
tome 5, 1731 : provinces de Malines et de Mayence.
tome 6, 1739 : province de Narbonne.
tome 7, 1744 : province de Paris et ses évêchés suffragants.
tome 8, 1744 : province de Paris et ses évêchés suffragants (suite).
tome 9, 1751 : province de Reims.
tome 10, 1751 : province de Reims (suite).
tome 11, 1759 : province de Rouen.
tome 12, 1771 : provinces de Sens et Tarentaise.
tome 13, 1785 : provinces de Toulouse et de Trêves.
tome 14, 1856 : province de Tours.
tome 15, 1860 : province de Besançon.


Jacques Longueval (1734). Histoire de l'église gallicane: Depuis l'an 1086 jusqu' à l'an 1137. Tome Huitieme. P. Simon.

Pierre Claude Fontenai (1739). Histoire de l'Eglise gallicane. Tom. 9-11 [of the work begun by J. Longueval].. pp. 1–.


Les Évêchés du Royaume sous le Règne de Louis VII

Ecclesiastical map of France in the Middle Ages

2nd copy


Henry II and the Norman Bishops
Jörg Peltzer
The English Historical Review
Vol. 119, No. 484 (Nov., 2004), pp. 1202-1229
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3490351
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