Ancient Diocese of Grasse

The former French Catholic diocese of Grasse was, from the fourth century until 1244, the diocese of Antibes.^[1] With its see at Grasse Cathedral, it then existed until the French Revolution. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory passing to the diocese of Nice.

History

The first known Bishop of Antibes is Armentarius who attended the Council of Vaison in 442; Louis Duchesne considered it possible that the Remigius, who signed at the Council of Nîmes in 396 and in 417 received a letter from Pope Zosimus, may have been Bishop of Antibes before Armentarius.

Bishops of Grasse worthy of mention are: Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio (1537-1648); the poet Antoine Godeau (1636-53), one of the most celebrated habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where he was nicknamed "Julia's dwarf" on account of his small stature.

The arrondissement of Grasse was separated from the diocese of Fréjus in 1886, and given to the bishopric of Nice which since unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and Vence.

Bishops of Antibes

• ca. 400: Saint Armantaire
• ca. 473: Valére
• ca. 506–ca. 530: Agrécius
• ca. 540: Eucher
• 549–ca. 570 or 573: Eusebius
• 573–585: Optat
• 650: Deocarus
• 791: Aribert
• 828: Hildebon
• 930: Aimar
• 987–1022: Bernhard I.
• 1026–ca. 1050: Aldebert I.
• 1056–ca. 1088: Gottfried I.
• 1089–1093: Aldebert II.
• ca. 1100–ca. 1135: Manfroi Grimaldi
• 1140–ca. 1145: Gottfried II.
• 1146–1156: Peter
• 1158–ca. 1165: Raimond I.
• 1166–1177: Bertrand I.
• 1178–1185: Fulko
• 1186–1187: Wilhelm I.
• 1188–ca. 1195: Raimond II. Grimaldi
• 1199: Olivier
• ca. 1208–ca. 1211: Bertrand II.
• 1212–ca. 1215: Guillaume Gausselin de Saint-Marcel
• 1218–1244: Bertrand d'Aix

Bishops of Grasse

• 1245–1251 Raimond III.
• 1251–1256 Pons
• 1258–1277 Wilhelm II.
• 1277?–1281? Guillaume de Vento
• 1281–1286 Pons d'Arcussia
• 1287–1298 Lantelme de Saint-Marcel
• 1298–1299 Guillaume Agarn
• 1299–1343 Gottried III.
• 1343–1348 Pierre de Béreste
• 1348–1349 Jean Coci (Peyroleri)
• 1349–1374 Amédée
• 1374–1379 Aimar de La Voulte
• 1379–1382 Artaud de Mélan
• 1383–1388 Thomas de Puppio or Thomas de Jarente
• 1389 Milon Provana
• 1389–1392 Jacques Graillier
• 1392–1407 Pierre Bonnet
• 1408–1427 Bernard de Châteauneuf de Paule
• 1427–1447 Antoine de Roumoules
• 1448–1450 Guillaume Guezi
• 1450–1451 Pierre de Forbin (Gorbin)
• 1450 Dominique de Guiza
• 1451–1483 Isnard de Grasse
• 1483–1505 Jean-André Grimaldi
• 1505–1532 Augustine Grimaldi
• 1532–1533 René du Bellay
• 1534–1536 Benoit Théocréne
• 1537–1548 Augustin Trivulce
• 1551–1565 Jean Vallier
• 1567–1570 Jean Grenon
• 1570–1586 Étienne Déodel
• 1589–1598 Georges de Poissieux
• 1592–1601 Guillaume Le Blanc
• 1604–1624 Étienne Le Maingre de Boucicault
• 1625–1628 Jean de Grasse-Cabris
• 1630–1632 Jean Guérin
• 1632–1636 Scipion de Villeneuve-Thorenc
• 1636–1653 Antoine Godeau
• 1653–1675 Louis de Bernage
• 1675–1681 Louis Aube de Roquemartine (also Bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
• 1682–1683 Antoine Le Comte
• 1684–1710 François Verjus
• 1685 Jean-Balthazar de Cabanes de Viens
• 1711–1726 Joseph de Mesgrigny
• 1726–1752 Charles-Octavien d'Anthelmy
• 1752–1797 François d'Estienne de Saint-Jean de Prunières

Notes

1. ^ Grasse (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

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