Territorial Prelature of the Mission de France at Pontigny

The Territorial Prelature of Mission de France, also known as the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny is a Latin territorial prelature of the Catholic Church, located in the city of Pontigny in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dijon in Burgundy.

History

24 July 1941: The XXVI-th assembly of cardinals and the archbishoprics of France decided to found the Mission de France, opening a seminary in Lisieux, Calvados. The purpose of the seminary was to train secular priests to carry out evangelical work in poor French dioceses.
18 January 1954: Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, prefect of the Roman Curia's educational department, notified the Lille diocese that the Mission de France seminary was to be closed and replaced by an "institute for missionary training" which would prepare priests to be sent to dechristianised regions.
15 August 1954: Established as the Territorial Prelature of Mission de France, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sens.