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Diocese of Annecy

Dioecesis Anneciensis

Diocèse d'Annecy
Annecy Cathedral
Location
Country France
  Switzerland
Ecclesiastical provinceLyon
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area4,317 km2 (1,667 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2015)
727,000 (est.)
521,400 (est.) (71.7%)
Parishes38 'new parishes'
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established15 February 1822
CathedralCathedral of St. Peter in Annecy
Patron saintSt. Francis de Sales
St. Peter in Chains
Secular priests134 (diocesan)
25 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Bishop electYves Le Saux
Metropolitan ArchbishopOlivier de Germay
Bishops emeritusYves Boivineau
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Annecy (Latin: Dioecesis Anneciensis; French: Diocèse d'Annecy) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Saint-Gingolph VS, a town in the Swiss canton of Valais, is also part of the diocese. Originally erected in 1822, after the Concordat as a subdivision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry, the diocese comprises the entirety of the department of Haute-Savoie in the Region of Rhône-Alpes. Only recently, in 2002, did the metropolitan change. The diocese is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Lyon. The current bishop is Yves Le Saux, appointed in 2022.

As of 2015 there was one priest for every 3,279 Catholics.

History

From 1535 to 1801 the bishops of Geneva, exiled by the Reformation from Geneva, lived at Annecy. Francis de Sales was Bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622. From 1801 to 1822, Annecy belonged to the Diocese of Chambéry and Geneva, but was made an episcopal see 15 February 1822, by the papal bull Sollicita catholici gregis.[1]

The memory of Bernard of Menthon, founder of the hospice of the Grand St. Bernard, is still honoured in the Diocese of Annecy. Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal founded the Congregation of the Visitation at Annecy in 1610; at the death of its foundress the convents belonging to this order numbered 87. The relics of these saints are preserved in the Church of the Visitation at Annecy. The ancient Benedictine abbey of Talloires is near the Lac d'Annecy.[1]

Bishops of Annecy

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  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goyau, Pierre-Louis-Théophile-Georges (1907). "Diocese of Annecy". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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