Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes

Diocese of Vannes Dioecesis Venetensis Diocèse de Vannes
Vannes Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Rennes
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Rennes
Statistics
Area	7,092 km^2 (2,738 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 700,000 630,000 (90%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5th Century
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St Peter in Vannes
Patron saint	St Padarn
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Raymond Centène
Metropolitan Archbishop	Pierre d'Ornellas
Emeritus Bishops	François-Mathurin Gourvès Bishop Emeritus (1991-2005)
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral, in the city of Vannes. The diocese corresponds to the department of Morbihan, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rennes. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop, since his appointment in 2005.

History

In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the Concordat, to include part of the ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo, which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the dioceses of Vannes and Saint-Brieuc and the Archdiocese of Rennes.

Ordinaries

• Amaury de la Motte d'Acigné † ( 1409 Appointed - 1 Nov 1432 Appointed, Bishop of Saint-Malo)
• 1476–1490: Cardinal Pierre de Foix the Younger
• 1490-1503 Lorenzo Cybo de Mari
• 1504–1511: Jacques II. de Beaune de Semblançay
• 26 February 1511 – 1513: Cardinal Robert Guibé
• 30 July 1514–26 September 1531: Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci
• 1531–1544: Cardinal Antonio Pucci
• 1544–1548: Laurent III. Pucci
• 1550–1557: Charles de Marillac
• 1557–1558: Sébastien de L'Aubespine
• 1559–1566: Philippe du Bec (also Archbishop of Reims)
• 1566–1570: Jean Le Feuvre
• 1572–1573: Pierre de Saint-Martin
• 31 May–August 1574: Jean de La Haye
• 1574–1588: Louis de La Haye
• 1592–1596: Georges d'Aradon
• 1599–1622: Jacques Martin
• 1622–1646: Sébastien de Rosmadec
• 1648–1671: Charles de Rosmadec
• 1671–1687: Louis Casset de Vautorte
• 1687–1716: François d'Argouges
• 1716–1717: Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan
• 1717–1719: Jean-François-Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin
• Antoine Fagon † (29 Aug 1719 Appointed - 16 Feb 1742 Died)
• Jean-Joseph Chapelle de Saint-Jean de Jumilhac † (2 Apr 1742 Appointed - 17 Apr 1746 Appointed, Archbishop of Arles)
• Charles-Jean de Bertin † ( 1746 Appointed - 1774 Died)
• Sébastien-Michel Amelot † (10 Nov 1774 Appointed - 1801 Resigned)
• Antoine-Xavier Maynaud de Pancemont † (9 Apr 1802 Appointed - 13 Mar 1807 Died)
• Pierre-François-Gabriel-Raymond-Ignace-Ferdinand de Bausset-Roquefort † (19 Nov 1807 Appointed - 8 Aug 1817 Appointed, Archbishop of Aix)
• Henri-Marie-Clauce de Bruc-Montplaisir † (27 Aug 1817 Appointed - 18 Jun 1826 Died)
• Simon Garnier † (28 Jun 1826 Appointed - 8 May 1827 Died)
• Charles-Jean de la Motte de Broons et de Vauvert † (4 Jul 1827 Appointed - 5 May 1860 Died)
• Louis-Anne Dubreil † (5 Jun 1861 Appointed - 24 Oct 1863 Appointed, Archbishop of Avignon)
• Jean-Baptiste Charles Gazailhan † (24 Oct 1863 Appointed - 1865 Resigned)
• Jean-Marie Bécel † (30 Dec 1865 Appointed - 6 Nov 1897 Died)
• Amédée-Jean-Baptiste Latieule † (22 Mar 1898 Appointed - 21 Oct 1903 Died)
• Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud † (21 Feb 1906 Appointed - 2 Oct 1928 Died)
• Hippolyte Tréhiou † (15 Apr 1929 Appointed - 9 Jan 1941 Died)
• Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec † (11 Oct 1941 Appointed - 24 Sep 1964 Retired)
• Pierre-Auguste-Marie Boussard † (24 Sep 1964 Appointed - 16 Nov 1991 Retired)
• François-Mathurin Gourvès (16 Nov 1991 Succeeded - 28 Jun 2005 Retired)
• Raymond Michel René Centène (28 Jun 2005 Appointed - present)

In fiction

Alexandre Dumas makes Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the last book of his celebrated d'Artagnan Romances.

References

Coordinates: 47°39′08″N 2°44′25″W / 47.65222°N 2.74028°W