Archdiocese of Paris


The Archdiocese of Paris is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by Denis of Paris|St. Denis] and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622. Before that date the bishops were suffragan to the archbishops of Sens.
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History

Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. Denis and his companions, Sts. Rusticus and Eleutherius. Until the Revolution the ancient tradition of the Parisian Church commemorated the seven stations of St. Denis, the stages of his apostolate and martyrdom:
Clovis founded, in honour of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a monastery to which the tomb of St. Genevieve drew numbers of the faithful, and in which St. Clotilde, who died at Tours, was buried.
To form a conception of Paris in the tenth and eleventh centuries, one must picture a network of churches and monasteries surrounded by cultivated farm-lands on the present site of Paris. From the beginning of the twelfth century, the monastic schools of Paris were already famous. The episcopate of Maurice de Sully, the son of a simple serf, was marked by the consecration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
The title of Duc de Saint-Cloud was created in 1674 for the archbishops.
Prior to 1790 the diocese was divided into three archdeaconries: France, Hurepoix, Brie.
Until the creation of new dioceses in 1966 there were two archdeaconries: Madeleine and St. Séverin. The reform reduced the diocese's size, losing the dioceses of Chartres, Orléans and Blois.

Present day

Its suffragan dioceses, created in 1966 and encompassing the Île-de-France region, are Créteil, Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, Meaux, Nanterre, Pontoise, Saint-Denis, and Versailles. Its liturgical centre is at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The archbishop resides on rue Barbet de Jouy in the 6th arrondissement, but there are diocesan offices in rue de la Ville-Eveque, rue St. Bernard and in other areas of the city. The archbishop is ordinary for Eastern Catholics in France.
The churches of the current diocese can be divided into several categories:

Bishops of Paris

To 1000

  • ?–: Denis, believed to be the first bishop of Paris
  • Mallon
  • Masse
  • Marcus
  • Adventus
  • : Victorinus
  • : Paulus
  • ?–417?: Prudentius
  • 360–436: Marcellus of Paris
  • ???–??: Vivianus
  • ???–??: Felix
  • ???–??: Flavianus
  • ???–??: Ursicianus
  • ???–??: Apedinus
  • ???–??: Heraclius
  • ???–??: Probatius
  • 533–545: Amelius
  • 545–552: Saffarace
  • um 550: Eusebius I
  • 550–576: Germanus
  • 576–591: Ragnemod
  • um 592: Eusebius II
  • ???–??: Faramonde
  • um 601: Simplicius
  • 606–614: Ceraunus/Ceran
  • Gendulf
  • 625–626: Leudébert
  • ?-650: Audobertus
  • 650–661: Landericus (Landry)
  • 661–663: Chrodobertus
  • ???–??: Sigebrand
  • ???–666: Importunus
  • 666–680: Agilbert
  • 690–692: Sigefroi
  • 693–698: Turnoald
  • ???–??: Adulphe
  • ???–??: Bernechaire
  • 722–730: Hugh of Champagne
  • ???–??: Agilbert
  • ???–??: Merseidus
  • ???–??: Fédole
  • ???–??: Ragnecapt
  • ???–??: Radbert
  • ???–??: Madalbert
  • 757-775: Déodefroi
  • 775–795: Eschenradus
  • ???–??: Ermanfroi
  • 811–831: Inchad
  • 831/2–857: Erchanrad II.
  • 858–870: Aeneas
  • 871–883: Ingelvin
  • 884–886: Goslin
  • 886–911: Anscharic
  • 911–922: Theodulphe
  • 922–926: Fulrad
  • 927–: Adelhelme
  • 937–941: Walter I., son of Raoul Tourte
  • : Constantius
  • 950–977: Albert of Flanders
  • ???–??: Garin
  • 979–980: Rainald I.
  • 984–989: Lisiard
  • 991–992: Gislebert
  • 991–1017: Renaud of Vendôme

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

From 1500

Auxiliary bishops

Studies

  • Andrieu, Jeanne-Marie Tuffery. . Bern: Peter Lang, 2007.