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Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Claude

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Parishes
  
67 'new parishes'

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
4,499 km²

Patron saint
  
Claudius of Besançon

Bishop
  
Vincent Jordy

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Established
  
22 January 1742

Cathedral
  
Saint-Claude Cathedral

Country
  
France

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Jean-Luc Bouilleret

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Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2014)263,600188,800 (71.6%)

Secular priests
  
91 (diocesan)7 (Religious Orders)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Besançon

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Claudii; French: Diocèse de Saint-Claude) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese corresponds in territory to the department of Jura. It was created in 1742, as a smaller area, mostly consisting of some parishes previously controlled by the Abbey of Saint-Claude. Under the Concordat of 1802 the diocese was suppressed and its territory included in the Archdiocese of Besançon; in 1822 it was again made an independent diocese.

The diocese of Saint-Claude is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Besançon, having in the past been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Its see is Saint-Claude Cathedral.

Bishops

  • Joseph de Méallet de Fargues 1742-1785
  • Jean-Baptiste Chabot 1785-1801.
  • François Xavier Moyse (François-Xavier Moïse) 1791-1793, constitutional bishop
  • Vacant
  • Antoine Jacques de Chamon 1823-1851
  • Jean Pierre Mabile 1851-1858, also bishop of Versailles
  • Charles Jean Fillion 1858-1862, also bishop of Le Mans
  • Louis Anne Nogret 1862-1880
  • César-Joseph Marpot 1880-1898
  • François-Alexandre Maillet 1898-1925
  • Rambert-Irénée Faure 1926-1948
  • Claude-Constant Marie Flusin 1948-1975
  • Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne 1975-1994
  • Yves François Patenôtre 1994-2004, also archbishop of Sens
  • Jean-Marie-Henri Legrez, O.P. 2005-2011; named Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi, France on Wednesday, February 2, 2011
  • Vincent Jordy 2011–present

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude Wikipedia
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