Established 3rd Century Bishop Michel Pansard | Denomination Roman Catholic Area 5,939 km² | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2013)298,000427,800 (69.7%) Metropolitan archbishop Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite diocese in France.
The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tours.
Pilgrimages
Chartres has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since the 1980s, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, with offices in Versailles, has organized the annual 100-km pilgrimage on foot from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, mostly young families from all over France, participate every year.
References
Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA