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Diocese of Vannes

Dioecesis Venetensis

Diocèse de Vannes
Eskopti Gwened
Vannes Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Ecclesiastical provinceRennes
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo
Statistics
Area7,092 km2 (2,738 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2014)
727,000
583,000 (80.2%)
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established5th Century
CathedralCathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Vannes
Patron saintSt. Padarn
Secular priests261 (diocesan)
94 (religious orders)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopRaymond Centène
Metropolitan ArchbishopPierre d'Ornellas
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Vannes (Latin: Dioecesis Venetensis; French: Diocèse de Vannes) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral in the city of Vannes. The diocese corresponds to the department of Morbihan, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop since his appointment in 2005.

History

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In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the Concordat of 1802, to include part of the ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo, which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the Dioceses of Vannes and Saint-Brieuc and the Archdiocese of Rennes.

In fiction

Alexandre Dumas makes Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the last book of his d'Artagnan Romances.[1]

Bishops of Vannes

to 1600

1600 to 1800

since 1800

References

  1. ^ William Allan McNair (1972). In search of the four musketeers. Sydney: Alpha Books. ISBN 9780855530495., especially Chapter 18.
  2. ^ Cazet de Vautorte had previously been Bishop of Lectoure (1655–1671). He was nominated to Vannes by Louis XIV on 28 January 1671, and approved by Pope Clement IX on 22 June 1671. He died in Vannes either on 13 or 27 December 1671. Jean, pp. 454-455. Ritzler, V, p. 408 and n. 3.
  3. ^ Pancemont was appointed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and consecrated at Notre-Dame de Paris by the Papal Legate, Cardinal Caprara. Ch. Hamel (1901). Histoire de l'église de Saint-Sulpice ... (in French). Paris: V. Lecoffre. pp. 90–102.

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