Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi

Archdiocese of Albi-Castres-Lavaur Archidioecesis Albiensis-Castrensis-Vauriensis Archidiocèse d'Albi-Castres-Lavaur
Albi Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Toulouse
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Toulouse
Statistics
Area	5,780 km^2 (2,230 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 385,700 286,600 (74.3%)
Parishes	509
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century (As Diocese of Albi) 3 October 1678 (As Archdiocese of Albi) 17 February 1922 (As Archdiocese of Albi-Castres-Lavaur)
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St Cecilia in Albi
Patron saint	Saint Cecilia
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Jean Marie Henri Legrez
Metropolitan Archbishop	Robert Jean Louis Le Gall
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi-Castres-Lavour (Lat:Archidioecesis Albiensis (-Castrensis-Vauriensis)), usually referred to simply as the Archdiocese of Albi, is a non-metropolitan archdiocese (one having no suffragan dioceses) of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in southern France. The archdiocese comprises the whole of the department of Tarn, and is itself currently suffragan to the Archdiocese of Toulouse, a metropolitan archdiocese. The current Archbishop of Albi is Jean Legrez, O.P. appointed archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. He formerly served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude, France.

History

Originally erected in the 3rd century as the Diocese of Albi, the diocese at the time was the suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bourges. In 1678, the diocese was finally promoted to an Archdiocese.

One significant holder of the post was Saint Salvius.

Following the Concordat of 11 June 1817, the archdiocese was restored in 1822 to its former borders and title.

In February 1922, the name was changed to the Archdiocese of Albi-Castres-Lavour, which it remains to this day.

List of bishops and archbishops

To 1000

• St Clair
• Antime
• c. 406: Diogénien
• 451: Anemius
• 506: Sabin
• 549: Ambroise
• 580–584: St Salvi (Salvy) or Salvii
• 585: Didier
• 625–647: Constantius
• ?–664: Didon
• 647–673: Richard
• 692–30. May 698: Citruin
• c. 700: St Amarand
• 722: Hugo I.
• 734: Johannes I
• 812: Verdat
• 825: Wilhelm I
• 844: Balduin
• 854: Pandevius
• 876: St Loup
• 886: Eloi
• 887–891: Adolence
• 921: Paterne
• 926: Godebric
• 936: Angelvin
• 941–942: Miron
• 961–967: Bernard
• 972: Frotaire (Frotarius)
• 975–987: Amelius or Ameil
• 990: Ingelbin
• 992: Honorat
• 998: Amblard

1000-1300

• 1020–1040: Amelius or Ameil II.
• 1040–1054: Wilhelm II.
• 1062–1079: Frotard, Frotarius
• 1079–1090: Wilhelm III.
• 1096: Gauthier
• 1098–1099: Hugo II.
• 1100–1103: Adelgaire I.
• 1103: Armand I. de Cessenon
• 1109–1110: Adelgaire II.
• 1115: Sicard
• 1115–1125: Bertrand I.
• 1125–1132: Humbert
• 1136–1143: Hugo III.
• 1143–1155: Rigaud
• 1157–1174: Guilhem, William of Dourgne
• 1176: Gérard (Géraud, Girald)
• 1183: Claude André
• 1185–1227: Guillaume Pierre de Brens (William Peyre, Guilliame Peyre, Guilhem Peyre)
• 1228–um 1254: Durand
• 1254–um 1271: Bernard II. de Combret
• 7. March 1276 – 1308: Bernard de Castanet

1300-1500

• 1308–1311: Bertrand des Bordes
• 1311–1314: Géraud II.
• 1314–1333: Béraud de Farges
• 1334–1336: Pierre I. de la Vie
• 26 July to 28 November 1337: Bernard IV. de Camiet
• 1337–1338: Guillaume Court
• 1339–1350: Peitavin de Montesquiou, Pectin de Montesquieu
• 1351–1354: Armand II. Guillaume
• 1355–1379: Hugues Auberti (Hugo Alberti)
• 1379–1382: Dominique I. de Florence
• 1382: Jean II. de Saie
• 1383–1392: Guillaume VII. de la Voulte
• 1393: Pierre II.
• 1393–1410: Dominique I. de Florence (2. Mal)
• 1410–1434: Pierre III. Neveu
• 1435: Bernard V. de Cazilhac
• 1435–1462: Robert Dauphin
• 1462-1464: Louis d'Amboise, coadjutor -this erroneous link may wrongly dated or a mis-identification. Cardinal Louis d'Amboise was not born until 1479!^[1]
• 1464–1473: Jean Jouffroy
• 1474–1502: Louis d'Amboise - this erroneous entry may be a dating or mis-identification error - see Wikipedia entry for biography of a Louis d'Amboise born in 1479?^[2]

1500-1700

• 1502–1510: Louis II. d'Amboise (House of Amboise)
• 1510–1515: Charles I. Robertet
• 1515–1518: Jean-Jacques Robertet
• 1519–1523: Adrien Gouffier de Boissy
• 1524–1528: Aymar Gouffier
• 1528–1535: Antoine Duprat
• 1535–1550: John of Lothringen-Guise
• 1550–1561: Louis I of Lothringen-Guise
• 1561–1567: Cardinal Laurent Strozzi
• 1568–1574: Philippe de Rodolfis
• 1575–1588: Giuliano de Medici
• 1588–1608: Alphonse I. d'Elbene
• 1608–1635: Alphonse II. d'Elbene
• 1635–1676: Gaspard de Daillon du Lude
• 1676–1687: Hyacinthe Serroni (first Archbishop, from 1678)
• 1687–1703: Charles II. Le Goux de la Berchère

1700-present

• 1703–1719: Henri de Nesmond
• 1719–1747: Armand-Pierre de la Croix de Castries
• 1747–1759: Dominique de La Rochefoucauld (also Archbishop of Rouen)
• 1759–1764: Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville
• 1764–1794: François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
• 3 April 1791: Jean-Joachim Gausserand
• 1794–1802: François de Pierre de Bernis
• 1817–1833: Charles III Brault
• 1833–1842: François-Marie-Edouard de Gually
• 1842–1864: Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion
• 1864–1875: Jean-Paul-François-Marie-Félix Lyonnet
• 1876–1884: Etienne-Emile Ramadié
• 1884–1899: Jean-Emile Fonteneau
• 1899–1918: Eudoxe-Irénée-Edouard Mignot
• 1918–1940: Pierre-Célestin Cézerac
• 1940–1956: Jean-Joseph-Aimé Moussaron
• 1957–1961: Jean-Emmanuel Marquès
• 1961–1974: Claude Dupuy
• 1974–1985: Robert-Joseph Coffy (also Archbishop of Marseille)
• 1986–1988: Joseph-Marie-Henri Rabine
• 1989–1999: Roger Lucien Meindre
• 2000–2010: Pierre-Marie Joseph Carré
• 2011–present: Jean Legrez, O.P.

References

1. wikipedia biography entry catholic Hierarchy websites
2. wikipedia biography entry & Catholic Hierarchy websites

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article