Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes
The Diocese of Tarbes et Lourdes is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Until 2002 Tarbes was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch. It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toulouse.
Erected in the 4th century, the diocese of Tarbes is the historical diocese of Bigorre, part of the larger region of Gascony. The diocese were suppressed in 1801 following the concordat, it was restored in 1822 and has since covered the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. The name of the diocese was changed from the Tarbes to the Diocese of Tarbes et Lourdes on 20 April 1912.
In 2022, in the Diocese of Tarbes, there was one priest for every 1,210 Catholics.
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, 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, 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 include:To 1200
- Amelius of Tarbes
- Bernard
- Richard
- Heraclius
- Pontius
- Dodo
- Bernard
- Pontius
- Guillaume
- Bernard de Montesquiou
- Arnaud Guillaume d'Osan
1200 to 1400
- Arnaud Guillaume de Biran
- Amanevus
- Hugues de Pardaillan
- Arnaldus Raimundi de Caudarasa
- Arnaldus de Mille sanctis
- Raimundus Arnaldi de Caudarasa
- Geraldus Doucet
- Guillaume de Lantal
- Pierre Raimundi de Montbrun
- Guillaume, O.S.B.
- Bernard
- Gaillard de Coadrase
- Reynaud de Foix
- Pierre d'Anglade, O.P. Administrator
1400 to 1600
- Bertrand
- Chrétien de Altarippa, O.E.S.A.
- Bernard du Peyron
- Homobonus d'Armagnac
- Raymond Bernardi
- Jean
- Roger de Foix de Castelbon
- Jean
- Cardinal Pierre de Foix Administrator
- Louis d'Albret
- Arnaud Raymond de Palatz
- Menalde d'Aura
- Thomas de Foix
- Menalde de Montory
- Gabriel de Gramont
- Antoine de Castelnau
- Louis de Castelnau
- Gentien de Bussy d'Amboise
- Salvatus d'Iharse
1600 to 1800
- Salvatus d'Iharse, le Jeune
- Claude Mallier du Houssay
- Marc Mallier du Houssay
- Anne de la Baume de Suze
- François de Poudenx
- Anne-François-Guillaume du Cambout-Beçay
- Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon
- Pierre de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire
- Pierre de La Romagère
- Michel-François de Couët du Vivier de Lorry
- François de Gain de Montagnac
- *Jean Guillaume Molinier
Since 1800
;;Diocese "restored" in 1822- Antoine-Xavier de Neirac
- Pierre-Michel-Marie Double
- Bertrand-Sévère Mascarou Laurence
- Pierre-Anastase Pichenot
- Benoit-Marie Langénieux
- César-Victor-Ange-Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Prosper-Marie Billère
- François-Xavier Schoepfer
- Alexandre-Philibert Poirier
- Pierre-Marie Gerlier
- Georges Choquet
- Pierre-Marie Théas
- Henri Clément Victor Donze
- Jean Yves Marie Sahuquet
- Jacques Jean Joseph Jules Perrier
- Nicolas Jean René Brouwet
- Jean-Marc Micas, P.S.S.