Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion Dioecesis S. Dionysii Reunionis Diocèse de Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion
Cathedral of Saint-Denis
Location
Country	Réunion France
Metropolitan	Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Area	2,600 km² (1,000 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 806,000 644,000 (79.9%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1712 (As Prefecture Apostolic of Islands of the Indian Ocean) 1818 (As Prefecture Apostolic of Bourbon) 27 September 1850 (As Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saint Denis in Saint-Denis, Réunion
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Gilbert Aubry
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion (Latin: Sancti Dionysii Reunionis) is the Latin, only Roman Catholic diocese on the island of Réunion.

It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy see, not part of any ecclesiastical province, but a member of the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean (with Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles).

Special churches

The cathedral episcopal see of the bishop is Cathédrale Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, national capital of Réunion.

History

Established 1712 as Apostolic Prefecture of Islands of the Indian Ocean, on territory split off from the Diocese of Malacca (in Malaysia)
On 8 May 1807, it lost vast Asian territory establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Batavia (now Archdiocese of Jakarata; then covering the Dutch East Indies)
In 1818, it was renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Bourbon, after its see's island's colonial name then (now Réunion)
On 10 January 1830, it lost vast Oceanian territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of South Seas Islands (New Zealand)
In 1841, it lost vast nearby Indian Ocean territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Madagascar
In 1850 it was promoted and renamed after its see as Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion
On 26 February 1860, it lost more East African territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Zanguebar (now diocese of Zanzibar)

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Prefects of Islands of the Indian Ocean

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Apostolic Prefect of Bourbon

Gabriel-Henri-Jérôme de Solages (1829 – 1832.12.08), later first Apostolic Prefect of daughter jurisdiction [Apostolic Prefecture of South Seas Islands|South Seas Islands]] (New Zealand) (1830 – 1832.12.08)

Exempt Bishops of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

Florian-Jules Desprez (1850.06.22 – 1857.03.19), later Bishop of Limoges (France) ([1857.02.04] 1857.03.19 – 1859.09.26), Metropolitan Archbishop of Toulouse (France) ([1859.07.30] 1859.09.26 – death 1895.01.21), created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro (1879.09.22 – 1895.01.21)
Armand-René Maupoint (1857.02.14 – 1871.07.10), later Apostolic Prefect of daughter jurisdiction [Apostolic Prefecture of Zanguebar|Zanguebar]] (Zanzibar island, now in Tanzania) (1862 – death 1871.07.10)
Victor-Jean-François-Paulin Delannoy (1872.02.10 – 1876.12.18), later Bishop of Aire et Dax (France) ([1876.10.10] 1876.12.18 – death 1905.08.07)
Dominique-Clément-Marie Soulé (1876.10.10 – 1880.11.30), later Apostolic Administrator of Guadeloupe et Basse-Terre diocese (Guadeloupe) (1892.11.21 – 1898), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Bithynia (1893.03.21 – 1919.04.21)
Joseph Coldefy (1881.02.17 – death 1887.01.18)
Edmond-Frédéric Fuzet (1887.10.12 – 1893.01.19), later Bishop of Beauvais (Picardy, France) ([1892.11.26] 1893.01.19 – 1899.12.07), Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (Normandy, France) (1899.12.07 – death 1915.12.20)
Jacques-Paul-Antonin Fabre (1892.11.26 – death 1919.12.26)
François-Emile-Marie Cléret de Langavant, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1934.12.10 – 1960.10.21), later Titular Bishop of Mactaris (1960.10.21 – 1971.07.21)
Georges-Henri Guibert, C.S.Sp. (1960.11.07 – retired 1975.02.19), previously Titular Bishop of Dices (1949.12.15 – 1960.11.07) & Auxiliary Bishop of Dakar (Senegal) (1949.12.15 – 1960.11.07)
Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry (since 1975.11.20 - ), also President of Episcopal Conferences of Indian Ocean (1989 – 1996), Apostolic Administrator of neighbouring Indian Ocean diocese Port Victoria (Seychelles) (1994 – 1995.03.03), President of Episcopal Conferences of Indian Ocean (2002 – 2006)

Source and External links

GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links

Link

The Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion website

Roman Catholicism in Africa

Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

Coordinates: 20°52′59″S 55°27′00″E / 20.88306°S 55.45000°E / -20.88306; 55.45000

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 264679164 LCCN: n00905894 GND: 7630082-1 SUDOC: 121807843 BNF: cb118781339 (data)

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