Diocese of Chartres

Dioecesis Carnutensis

Diocèse de Chartres
Chartres Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Ecclesiastical provinceTours
Statistics
Area5,939 km2 (2,293 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2013)
298,000
427,800 (69.7%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established3rd Century
CathedralCathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Chartres
Patron saintAssumption of Mary
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopPhilippe Christory
Metropolitan ArchbishopVincent Jordy
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Chartres (Latin: Dioecesis Carnutensis; French: Diocèse de Chartres) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France.[1]

The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours.[2]

History

Adventus is listed as the first bishop. Solemnis was instrumental in the conversion of Clovis.[3] In 911, Bishop Gauscelinus used the Voile de la Vierge (Veil of the Blessed Virgin), as a standard when warding off the invading Normans.[4] Fulbert was responsible for the advancement of the Nativity of the Virgin's feast day on September 8.[5] Ivo of Chartres and John of Salisbury were notable bishops.

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres was constructed between 1194 and 1220, on the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since the Diocese of Chartres was formed as an episcopal see in the 4th century.

In 1697, the Diocese of Blois was erected from the territory of Chartres. It 1802, the Diocese of Chartres was suppressed, and the area placed under the newly created Diocese of Versailles. However, in 1822, the See of Chartres was re-established and made suffragan at that time to the Archbishopric of Paris.[6]

Pilgrimages

Chartres has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. Louis IX of France made a pilgrimage; as did Philip IV and Charles IV.[6]

The poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since the 1980s, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté,[7] with offices in Versailles, has organized the annual 100-km pilgrimage on foot from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, mostly young families from all over France, participate every year.

Bishops

Main article: List of bishops of Chartres

See also

References

  1. ^ Official diocese website Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Diocese of Chartres from catholic-hierarchy.org/[self-published source]
  3. ^ (in French) Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain, et de la Beauce, Guillaume Doyen, éd. Deshayes, Chartres, 1786
  4. ^ Wellman, Tennyson . "Apocalyptic Concerns and Mariological Tactics in Eleventh-Century France", The Year 1000; Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium. (Michael Frassetto, ed.) 2002, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136
  5. ^ Fassler, Margot. "Mary's Nativity, Fulbert of Chartres, and the Stirps Jesse: Liturgical Innovation Circa 1000 and its Afterlife". Speculum. 2000: 75, p. 405
  6. ^ a b Goyau, Georges. "Diocese of Chartres." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 21 February 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ Notre-Dame de Chrétienté - English language site

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Chartres". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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