Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges

St. Stephen of Bourges Cathedral

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire.

Since 2002 it has lost its metropolitan function, its province having already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had once largely corresponded. The Archdiocese is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tours.

From 2000 it was led by Archbishop Hubert Barbier, but his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on September 11, 2007, making him Archbishop Emeritus. His successor as Archbishop-elect is Bishop Armand Maillard of the Diocese of Laval.

History

The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.

List of Bishops (incomplete)

To 1000

• St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
• Sevitianus
• Aetherius
• Thecretus
• Marcellus (all prior to 337)
• Palladius (377-384)
• Leo (453)
• Simplicius (472-480)
• Arcadius of Bourges
• Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535))
• Desideratus (541-550)
• Probianus
• Felix of Bourges
• Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century)
• Sulpitius I of Bourges (584-591)
• Austregisilus (612-624)
• Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624-644)
• David (793-802)
• Agilulfus (c. 820-840)
• Raoul of Turenne 840-866
• Wulfad 866-876^[1]
• Frotharius (876-c.893)
• Hugh of Blois (969-985)^[2]
• Dagbert (987-1013)^[2]

From 1000

• Gauzlin Capet (1013–1030)^[2]
• Alberich of Reims (1136–1141)
• Henry de Sully (d. 1200)
• William of Donjeon (1200–09)
• Girard de Cros 1209-1218
• Simon de Sully 1218-1232
• Philippe Berruyer 1232-1260
• Jean de Sully 1260-1271
• Guy de Sully 1276-1280
• Simon de Beaulieu 1281-1294
• Gilles de Rome 1295-1316
• Renault de la Porte 1316-1320
• Guillaume de Brosse 1321-1331
• Foucaud de Rochechouard 1331-1343
• Blessed Roger le Fort 1343-1367
• Pierre d'Estaing 1367-1370
• Pierre de Cros 1370-1374, became Archbishop of Arles, and cardinal
• Bertrand de Chenac 1374-1386
• Jean de Rochechouart 1386-1390
• Pierre Aimery 1391-1409
• Guillaume de Boisratier 1409-1421
• Henry d'Avangour 1421-1446
• Jean Coeur 1446-1483
• Pierre Cadoüet 1483-1492
• Guillaume de Cambray 1492-1505
• Michel de Bucy 1505-1511
• Andrew Forman 1513
• François de Tournon
• Renaud de Beaune 1581
• André Fremiot
• Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur
• Georges-Louis Phélypeaux
• Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy, 1802–1811
• Guillaume Aubin de Villèle 1824
• Louis-Ernest Dubois
• Louis-Joseph Fillon
• Hubert Barbier (2000–2007)
• Armand Maillard (2007-)

Notes

1. ^ Thomas Bauer (1998). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Wulfad, Erzbischof von Bourges. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 14. Herzberg. cols. 168–170. ISBN 3-88309-073-5. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/w/wulfad.shtml. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Devailly, Guy (1973) (in French). Le diocèse de Bourges. Paris: Letouzey & Ane. p. 247. OCLC 815696. "Hugues de Blois 969-985" 

External links

• Archevêques de Bourges
• Lists of Bishops and Archbishops

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