Ancient Diocese of Saint Omer

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The former French Catholic diocese of Saint-Omer existed from 1559 until the French Revolution. Its see at Saint-Omer, in the modern department of Pas-de-Calais, was created as a reaction to the destruction of the see of Thérouanne, by military action in the wars of the Emperor Charles V. It then became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cambrai in 1559.

By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Saint-Omer was united with the diocese of Arras and the diocese of Boulogne, to form an enlarged diocese of Arras.

Bishops

Guillaume de Poitiers 1561

Gérard de Haméricourt 1563-1577

Jean Six 1581-1586

Jacques de Pamèle 1587

Jean de Vernois, O.P., 1591-1599

Jacques Blaseus, O.F.M. Rec., 1600-1618 (previously bishop of Namur)

Paul Jacques Boudot 1618-1627 (then bishop of Arras)

Pierre Paunet, O.F.M., 1628-1631

Christophe de Morlet 1632-1633

Christophe de France 1635-1656

Ladislas Jonnart 1662-1671 (then archbishop of Cambrai)

Jacques Théodore de Brias 1672-1675 (then archbishop of Cambrai)

Jean Charles de Longueval 1676

Pierre Van Den Perre 1577

Armand-Anne-Tristan de La Baume de Suze 1677

Louis-Alphonse de Valbelle 1677-1708 (previously bishop of Alet)

François de Valbelle de Tourves 1708-1727

Joseph-Alphonse de Valbelle de Tourves 1727-1754

Pierre-Joseph de Brunes de Monlouet 1754-1765 (previously bishop of Dol)

Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de Conzié 1766-1769 (then bishop of Aire)

Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié 1769-1775 (then archbishop of Tours)

Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur 1775-1778 (then bishop of Carcassonne)

Alexandre-Joseph-Alexis de Bruyère de Chalabre 1778-1790 (1796)

References

Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer Wikipedia

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