Ancient Diocese of Sisteron

Sisteron Cathedral

The former French diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

After the Concordat of 1801, its territory passed to the diocese of Digne.^[1]

Bishops

• Chrysaphius (449–452)
• Johannes I (500–516 ?)
• Valère (517)
• Avole (541–554)
• Genès (573)
• Pologronius (584–585)
• Secondin I (614)
• Johannes II (812–860)
• Viventius (ninth century)
• Magnibert (ninth century)
• Amantius (ninth century)
• Secondin II. (ninth century)
• Virmagne (ninth century)
• Bon (867)
• Vincent (end of ninth century)
• Eustorge (tenth century)
• Arnulphe (925 ?)
• Johann III. (930–965 ?)
• Ours (967)
• Rudolf I. (981)
• Frodon (999–1015)
• Durand (1015 ?–1020)
• Pierre I. (1023–1043) (brother of Feraud, bishop of Gap)
• Géraud ? (1031 ?–1045 ?)
• Pierre II. (1043) (then bishop of Vaison, nephew of Pierre .)
• Gérard I. Chevrier (1060–1080 ?)
• Carl (1082)
• Nitard (end of eleventh century)
• Bertrand I. (1102–1105 ?)
• Gérard II. (1110–1124)
• Raimbaud (1125 ?–1145)
• Pierre de Sabran (1145–1171)
• Bertrand II. (1172–1174)
• Bermond d'Anduse (1174–1214)
• Rodolphe II. (1216–1241)
• Henri de Suze (1244–1250) (then archbishop of Embrun)
• Humbert Fallavel (1250–1256)
• Alain de Lusarches (1257–1277)
• Pierre Giraud (1277–1291)
• Pierre d'Alamanon (1292–1304)
• Jacques Gantelmi (1306–1310)
• Raimond d'Oppède (1310–1328)
• Rostan I. (1328–1348)
• Pierre Artaudi (1349–1360)
• Gérard III. (1362–1369)
• Ranulphe de Gorze (1370–1382)
• Artaud de Mélan (1382–1404)
• Antoine de Viale (1383–1386) (installed by Pope Urban VI)
• Nicolas Sacosta (1404–1414)
• Robert du Four (1414–1437)
• Mitre Gastinel (1437–1440)
• Raimond Ralon (1437)
• Gaucher de Forcalquier (1440–1442)
• Charles de Borna (1442–1456)
• Jacques Radulphi (1456–1463)
• André de Plaisance (1463–1477)
• Jean Esquenart (1477–1492)
• Thibaud de la Tour d'Auvergne (1493–1499)
• Laurent Bureau (1499–1504)
• Pierre Filholi (1504–1506) (then archbishop of Aix)
• François de Dinteville (1506–1514) (then bishop of Auxerre)
• Claude de Louvain (1514–1520) (also bishop of Soissons, Abbot of Saint-Jean d'Amiens and Saint-Pierre de Bèze)
• Michel de Savoie (1520–1522) (then bishop of Beauvais)
• Claude d'Aussonville (1523–1531)
• Antoine de Narbonne (1531–1541)
• Albin de Rochechouard (1542–1543)
• Émeric de Rochechouard (1543–1580) (brother of predecessor)
• Antoine de Couppes (1582–1606)
• Toussaint de Glandevès (1606–1648)
• Antoine d'Arbaud (1648–1666)
• Michel Poncet (1667–1675) (then archbishop of Bourges)
• Jacques Potier (1677–1681) (then bishop of Évreux)
• Louis de Thomassin (1682–1718)
• Pierre-François Lafitau (1720–1764)
• Louis-Jérôme de Suffren (1764–1789) (brother of Pierre André de Suffren, bishop of Nevers)
• François de Bovet (1789–1801)

Notes

1. Diocese of Sisteron, France