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 Roman [Catholic Diocese of Lille|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.
Prelates
- Cardinal Achille Liénart
- Archbishop François Marty *
- Bishop Henri Gufflet
- Bishop André Gustave Bossuyt
- Cardinal François Marty
- Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
- Cardinal Albert Decourtray
- Bishop André [Jean René Lacrampe], Ist. del Prado *
- Archbishop Georges [Edmond Robert Gilson]
- Archbishop Yves François Patenôtre
- Archbishop-Bishop Hervé Giraud
- Bishop Dominique Blanchet