Parishes 525 Sui iuris church Latin Church Area 4,535 km² Country France Emeritus bishop Jacques Perrier | Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Bishop Nicolas Brouwet Cathedral Tarbes Cathedral | |
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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toulouse Population
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- Catholics (as of 2010)
237,905
150,000 (63.0%) Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes (Latin: Dioecesis Tarbiensis et Lourdensis) is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite diocese in France. Until 2002 Tarbes was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch. It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toulouse.
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The name of the diocese was changed from the Tarbes to the Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes (Lat: Dioecesis Tarbiensis et Lourdensis) on 20 April 1912.
History
The earliest known bishop of Tarbes appears to be Syagrius, who attended the Council of Nîmes in 394.
The Cathedral had been burned and seriously damaged in the French Wars of Religion by the Huguenots, and was a long time in being restored. The Cathedral had fourteen Canons. Until 1524 the Canons served under the Rule of Saint Augustine; thereafter they were secular canons. There were twelve prebendaries. The Chapter had an unusually large number of dignitaries: a Provost (which became dormant), eight Archdeacons, the Cantor, the Sacristan, the Chamberlain and the Infirmarius.
In 1676 the city of Tarbes, which was under the jurisdiction of the King of France, had approximately 2000 Catholic inhabitants. In the city were convents of the Franciscans (O.Min.), Carmelites, Capucines, and Doctrinarii; there was a convent of Ursuline nuns. Elsewhere in the diocese there were convents of Dominicans, Repenties, Capucines, Carmelites, and Minims of S. Francesco di Paola. There were also five houses of Benedictine monks: Saint-Sever-de-Rustan, Saint-Savin-in-Lavadan, Saint-Pé-de-Generest, Saint-Pierre-de-Tasque, and Saint-Orenz-de-Reulle.
Bishops of Tarbes
Previous Bishops of Tarbes (-et-Lourdes) include: