Country France Denomination Roman Catholic Area 7,092 km² Patron saint Padarn | Ecclesiastical province Rennes Rite Roman Rite Phone +33 2 97 68 30 60 | |
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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2014)
727,000
583,000 (80.2%) Address 14 Rue de l'Évêché, 56000 Vannes, France Hours Open today · 9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMWednesday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMThursday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMFriday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMSaturday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMSunday10–11AM, 4:15–6PMMonday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMTuesday9:30AM–12PM, 3:30–6PMSuggest an edit Similar Cathédrale Saint‑Pier de Vannes, Église Saint‑Pat, Basilique Sainte‑An d'Auray, Commun des Soeurs de la Cha, Église Saint‑Guen Profiles | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes (Latin: Dioecesis Venetensis; French: Diocèse de Vannes) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral, in the city of Vannes. The diocese corresponds to the department of Morbihan, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop, since his appointment in 2005.
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History
In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the Concordat of 1802, to include part of the ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo, which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the Dioceses of Vannes and Saint-Brieuc and the Archdiocese of Rennes.
In fiction
Alexandre Dumas makes Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the last book of his d'Artagnan Romances.