Ancient Diocese of Embrun
The former French Catholic archdiocese of Embrun was suppressed after the French Revolution. Its see was Embrun Cathedral.
It had as suffragans the diocese of Digne, diocese of Antibes and Grasse, diocese of Vence, diocese of Glandèves, diocese of Senez and diocese of Nice.
History
Tradition ascribes the evangelization of Embrun to Saints Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs under emperor Nero.
The first known bishop was St. Marcellinus (354-74).
Other bishops of Embrun who were of note were
- saint Marcellin (ou Marcellinus) 20 April 374
- Artemius (374-12 July 374)
- St. Albinus (400-37);
- 439: Armentaire[1] (ou Armentarius)
- 441-† vers 475:[2] Ingenuus
- septembre 517: Catulin[3] (ou Catulinus)
- saint[4] Gallican ITemplate:Er[5] (ou Gallicanus)
- St. Palladius (first half of the sixth century);
- Gallican II[6] (or Gallicanus) 541-549
- Saloine[7] (or Salonius[8]) 567-579
- Emérite (or Emeritus) 585- 588
- Lopacharus fl 614
- saint Albin (ou Albinus) to 630
- St. Eutherius (middle of the seventh century);
- Thierry III sous son règne (679 – 691),
- Vualchinus, 740 founded Novalesa Abbey.[9]
- Marcellus 791-794
- St. James (eighth century);
- St. Alphonsus (eighth century);
- St. Marcellus (end of the eighth century), whom Charlemagne sent to evangelize Saxony;
- St. Bernard (805-25), under whose episcopate Charlemagne enriched the diocese of Embrun;
- Agéric (ou Agericus) fl.829
- Aribert ITemplate:Er[7] (ou Arbertus[8]) 853-859
- Bermond (ou Bermondus) fl. 876
- Aribert II (ou Aribertus) fl.878
- Ermold[7] (or Ermaldus,[8] or Ermoldus[10]) 886[11] ou 887[12]
- Arnaud[13] (or Arnaudus)890-899
- St. Benedict (beginning of the tenth century), martyred by the Saracen invaders;
- St. Liberalis (920-40);
- 943-† vers 960: Boson (ou Boso)
- vers 970: Amédée[14] (or Amadeus) fl.970
- Ponce[15] (or Pontius) fl.992
- saint Ismidias[7] (ou Ismidius,[8] ou Amadeus[10]) 1007-1010
- Radon (ou Rado) 1016-1027
- St. Hismide (1027–45);
- St. Guillaume (1120–34), founder of the celebrated Abbey of Boscodon;
- St. Bernard Chabert (1213–35),
- Blessed Henry of Segusio (1250–71), known as (H)Ostiensis, i.e. Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, an orator and canonist of renown;
- the Dominican Raimond of Mévolhon (1289–94), who defended the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas against the English theologians;
- Bertrand of Deaux (1323–38), who as the legate of Clement VI at Rome did much to bring about the downfall of Rienzi;
- Jacques Gelu (1427–32), one of the first prelates to recognize the supernatural vocation of Joan of Arc;
- Giulio de' Medici (1510–11), later pope under the name of Clement VII;
- Cardinal François de Tournon (1517–26), employed on diplomatic missions by king Francis I of France, and founder of the College de Tournon;
- Cardinal de Tencin (1724–40), who in September, 1727, caused the condemnation by the Council of Embrun of the *Jansenist Soanen, Bishop of his suffragan see of Senez.
- St. Vincent Ferrer preached several missions against the Vaudois in the Diocese of Embrun.
Besides the bishops named the following are honored as saints in the present Diocese of Gap: Vincent, Orontius and Victor, martyrs in Spain in the fourth century, the anchorite Veranus (sixth century), afterwards Bishop of Cavaillon, and the anchorite St. Donatus (sixth century).
When the diocese of Gap was re-established in 1822 it comprised, besides the ancient Diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient archdiocese of Embrun. The name of this last metropolitan see, however, had been absorbed in the title of the Archbishop of Aix until 2007. In 2008, the title was reattached to the diocese of Gap by the pope.[16]
Bishops
- † c.374: Saint Marcellin
- 374: Artemius
- c.400: Saint Jakob I.
- 439: Armentaire
- 441 to c.475: Ingenuus
- 517: Catulin
- Gallicanus I
- Saint Palladius
- c.541 to c.549: Gallicanus II
- c.567: Saloine
- c.585 to c.588: Emerite
- 614: Lopacharus
- c.630: Saint Albin
- c.650 to c.653: Ætherius
- c.740: Vualchinus
- c.791–794: Marcellus
Archbishops
- Bernardus
- 829: Agéric
- c.853 to c.859: Aribert I.
- 876: Bermond
- 878: Aribert II.
- 886: Ermold
- 899: Arnaud
- 900–916: Saint Benedict I.
- 920: Saint Liberalis of Embrun (Liberal)
- 943–960: Boson
- c.970: Amédée
- 992: Ponce
- 1007–1010: Ismidias
- c.1016 to c.1027: Radon
- c.1033–1044: Hismidon
- c.1048: Vivemne
- 1050–1054: Guinervinaire
- 1054–1055: Hugues
- 1055–1065: Viminien or Guinamand
- 1066–1077: Wilhelm I.
- 1077: Peter I.
- c.1080–1084: Lantelme
- 1105–1118: Benedict II.
- 1120–1134: Guillaume II.
- 1135 to 7 December 1169: Guillaume III. de Benevent
- 9 January 1170 to 1176: Raimond I.
- c.1177–1189: Pierre II. Romain
- 1189–1208: Guillaume IV. de Benevent
- 1208 to c.1212: Raimond II. Sédu
- 1212 to c.1235: Bernard I. Chabert
- 1236 to 23. May 1245: Aimar
- 1246–1250: Humbert
- 1250 to 6. November 1261: Henri de Suse
- 1267–1275: Melchior
- 1275–1286: Jacques II. Sérène
- 4 August 1286 to 1289: Guillaume V.
- 8 October 1289 to 28 June 1294: Raimond de Médullion
- 28 March 1295 to 1311: Guillaume VI. de Mandagot
- 22 May 1311 to 1317: Jean I. du Puy
- 1319 to c.1323: Raimond IV. Robaud
- 5 September 1323 to 1338: Bertrand I. de Deaulx
- 27. January 1338 to 17. December 1350: Pasteur de Sarrats
- 16. February 1351 to 1361 or 1363: Guillaume VII. de Bordes
- 1363–1364: Raimond V. de Salg
- 8 January 1364 to 5. September 1365: Bertrand II. de Castelnau
- 1365–1366: Bernard II.
- 1366 to 18 December 1378: Pierre III. Ameil
- 1379 to 1 May 1427: Michel Etienne
- 1427 to 7 September 1432: Jacques III. Gelu
- 1432 to 17 January 1457: Jean II. Girard
- 1457 to c.1470: Jean III de Montmagny
- c.1470–1494: Jean IV. Baile
- 1494–1510: Rostaing d'Ancezune
- 1510–1511: Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici
- 1511–1516: Nicolas de Fiesque (Fieschi), Cardinal
- 1517–1525: François de Tournon
- 1526–1551: Antoine de Lévis de Château-Morand
- 1551–1555: Balthasar de Jarente
- 1555: Louis de Laval de Bois-Dauphin
- 1556–1560: Robert Cardinal de Lenoncourt
- 1561–1600: Guillaume d'Avançon de Saint-Marcel, Cardinal
- 1601–1612: Honoré du Laurens
- 1612–1648: Guillaume d'Hugues
- 1649–1668: Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade
- 1668–1714: Charles Brûlart de Genlis
- 1715–1719: François-Elie de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson
- 1719–1724: Jean-François-Gabriel de Hénin-Liétard
- 1724–1740: Pierre Guérin de Tencin (also Archbishop of Lyon)
- 1741–1767: Bernardin-François Fouquet
- 1767–1790: Pierre-Louis de Leyssin
- 1791–1793: Ignace Caseneuve
References
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie précise qu'Armentarius est amotus 439 et ad statum chorepiscopatum reductus.
- ↑ La Grande Encyclopédie et le Trésor de Chronologie donnent tous deux la date de 475 comme étant celle de la fin de l'épiscopat d'Ingenuus. Le Trésor de Chronologie indique entre parenthèses que d'autres sources, non précisées, donnent parfois la date de 487.
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie précise que Catulinus a été expulsé de son siège par les Ariens. La source fait peut être une confusion avec Gallican ITemplate:Er (cf. note n°6).
- ↑ Donné comme saint par La Grande Encyclopédie, mais pas par le Trésor de Chronologie.
- ↑ La Grande Encyclopédie précise que Gallican ITemplate:Er a été expulsé de son siège par les Ariens. La source fait peut être une confusion avec Catulin (cf. note n°4).
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie précise qu'il faut peut être identifier Gallican II avec Gallican ITemplate:Er.
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- ↑ Fornier, Marcellin (1592-1649), Histoire générale des Alpes Maritimes ou Cottiènes : et particulière de leur métropolitaine, Embrun.
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- ↑ Date donnée par La Grande Encyclopédie.
- ↑ Date donnée par le Trésor de Chronologie.
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie indique qu'Arnaud doit peut être être identifié avec son prédécesseur.
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie met l'archevêque Amadeus entre parenthèses, avec un point d'interrogation après la date 970.
- ↑ Le Trésor de Chronologie pose un point d'interrogation après le nom de l'archevêque Pontius.
- ↑ Papal bull on the Diocese of Gap website
External links
- Source
- Embrun Cathedral:,
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "article name needed". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
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