The Ancient Diocese of Vaison (Lat. dioecesis Vasionensis) was a Roman Catholicdiocese in France, suppressed in 1801, with its territory transferred to the diocese of Avignon.[1] It had been one of nine dioceses in the ecclesiastical province presided over by the archbishop of Arles, but a later reorganization placed Vasio under the archbishop of Avignon. Jurisdiction inside the diocese was shared between the bishop and the Comte de Provence, higher justice and the castle belonging to the Comte, and civil justice and all other rights belonging to the bishop. The cathedral was served by a chapter[2] which had four dignities: the provost (praepositus), the archdeacon, the sacristan, and the precentor. There were also six canons, each of whom had a prebend attached to his office.[3]
History
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Others were St. Quinidius (Quenin, 556-79), who resisted the claims of the patrician Mummolus, conqueror of the Lombards; Joseph-Marie de Suares (1633–66), who died in Rome in 1677 while filling the office of Custode of the Vatican Library and Vicar of the Basilica of St. Peter, and who left numerous works.[5]
St. Rusticala (551–628) was abbess of the monastery of St. Caesarius at Arles.
Two councils which dealt with ecclesiastical discipline were held at Vaison in 442 and 529,[6] the latter a provincial council under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles.
The bishopric was suppressed[7] as part of the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, between Consul Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII, and the territory of Vaison was incorporated into the diocese of Avignon and the diocese of Valence. In 2009 the title of Vasio was revived as a titular See.[8]
^He was present at the council of Arles in 314: Duchesne, p. 262, no. 1.
^He was present at the councils of Riez (439), Orange (441), and Vaison (442): Duchesne, p. 262, no. 2. He is mentioned in Pope Leo I's letter 109 of A.D. 449: Gallia christiana, p. 921.
^He was represented in 554 in the provincial council, and he is mentioned in the life of his successor: Duchesne, p. 262, no. 6.
^The aspect of desolation in these years is seen throughout the area, not just in the diocese of Vaison.See Labande, pp. 31-32, where Arab invasions are casually mentioned.
^His existence depends upon the citation of a document by the Benedictines working under Saint-Marthe: Gallia christiana I, p. 924. Labarde, p. 32, is skeptical. The document has never been produced.
^Bishop Umbert is credited with having established the Canons in the newly-built Cathedral of Notre-Dame: Boyer, pp. 74-76.
^Labarde, pp. 33-35, attributes to Umbert II the establishment of the body of Canons in the new cathedral, pointing out discrepancies in Boyer's chronology.
^According to J.-H. Albanes, Histoire des évêques de Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux (Montbéliard: Hoffmann 1885) he was appointed by Alexander V, on 12 August 1409. See: T. de L., Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature n.s. 22, no. 48 (1886), p. 416.
^Former Bishop of Dunblane, Scotland: H. Morse Stephens, in: Sir Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1908). Dictionary of national biography. Vol. IV. Smith, Elder & Co. p. 262.
^He was deprived of his diocese after he protested the annexation of the Comtat Venaissin by France. He fled to Rome. He resigned the See of Vaison on 18 November 1801: Augustin Theiner (1869). Histoire des Deux Concordats (in French and Latin). Vol. Tome II. Bar-le-Duc. pp. 103–104.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Pius VII appointed him Bishop of Ghent.
