Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers
Pamiers Cathedral

The Roman Catholic diocese of Pamiers, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in France. The diocese comprises the department of Ariège, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Toulouse. The episcopal see is the Pamiers Cathedral, in the city of Pamiers, and the current bishop is Philippe Mousset. Appointed as bishop-elect on January 8, 2009; he had been a priest of the La Rochelle diocese.

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Jurisdiction

The territory forming it was united to the archbishopric of Toulouse on the occasion of the Concordat of 1801; the Concordat of 1817 re-established at Pamiers a diocese which existed only in September, 1823, uniting the ancient diocese of Pamiers and diocese of Couserans, the larger portion of the former diocese of Mirepoix and diocese of Rieux, and a deanery of the former diocese of Alet.

A decree of the Holy See 11 March 1910, re-established the titles of the former Sees of Couserans and Mirepoix.

History

The traditions of the diocese mention as its first apostle of Christianity St. Antoninus, born at Fredelacum near Pamiers, an apostle of the Rouergue, martyred in his native country (date uncertain). The Abbey of St. Antonin was founded near Fredelacum about 960; in 1034 it passed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Girone and was annexed in 1060 to the Congregation of Cluny.

A castle built on the site of the abbey by Roger II, Count of Foix (10701125), was called Appamia; hence the name of Pamiers which passed to the neighbouring small town. Pope Boniface VIII created a see at Pamiers by the Bull Romanus Pontifex 23 July 1295, and made it a suffragan of the archdiocese of Narbonne. He named Bernard Saisset Abbot of St. Antonin, and by a decree 18 April 1296, settled the boundaries of the new diocese dismembered from that of Toulouse. The opposition of Hughes Mascaron, Bishop of Toulouse, and the conflict between Saisset and Roger Bernard III, Count of Foix, prevented Saisset from taking immediate possession of his diocese; Abbé Vidal has proven that it is not true, as had long been thought, that St. Louis of Anjou, who became Bishop of Toulouse at the death of Mascaron, had been appointed provisional administrator of the Diocese of Pamiers. Saisset took possession of his see on 19 April 1297; having sided with Boniface VIII (1301), he was imprisoned by order of Philip the Fair.

After careful investigation, Pope Clement V, 3 August 1308, complied with certain demands of Toulouse concerning the decree of Boniface VIII, and the Diocese of Pamiers remained, but with poorer resources than those assigned it by Boniface VIII. However, when Pope John XXII raised Toulouse to an archbishopric, 22 Feb., 1318, he also extended the Diocese of Pamiers which he made suffragan of Toulouse. Saisset's successor was Jacques Fournier (131726), subsequently pope under the name of Benedict XII. Vidal discovered in the Vatican Library the record of the procedure of the Inquisition tribunal created at Pamiers, by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region; this document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the monastic inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal power, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienna. In this new regime the traditional procedure of the Inquisition was made milder by temporizing with the accused who persisted in error, by granting defendants a fair amount of liberty, and by improving the prison regime.

Among the noteworthy bishops of Pamiers were Cardinal Arnaud de Villemur (134850); Cardinal Amanieu d'Albret (150206); John of Barbançon (155055), who became a Calvinist; Robert of Pellevé (155779), during whose episcopate the religious wars gave rise to cruel strife: Protestants destroyed every church in Pamiers, among them the magnificent church of Notre-Dame du Camp, and three times they demolished the episcopal palace of the Mas Saint-Antonin. Henry of Sponde (162642) (Spondanus), who summarized and continued the Ecclesiastical Annals of his friend Baronius; the Jansenist François Etienne de Caulet (16441680).

Bishops

  • Bernard Saisset 12951314
  • Pilfort de Rabastens 13151317
  • Jacques Fournier 13171326
  • Dominique Grenier 13261347
  • Arnaud de Villemur 13481350
  • Guillaume de Montespan 13511370
  • Raymond d'Accone 13711379
  • Bertrand dOrnésan 13801424
  • Jean de Forto 14241431
  • Gérard de La Bricoigne 14311435
  • Jean Mellini 14351459
  • Barthélemy d'Artiguelouve 14591467
  • Paschal Dufour 14681487
  • Pierre de Castelbajac 14881497
  • Gérard Jean 14981501
  • Amanieu d'Albret 15021506
  • Mathieu dArtiguelouve 15061514
  • Amanieu d'Albret 15141520 (2. Mal)
  • Bertrand de Lordat 15241547
  • Jean de Luxembourg 15471548
  • Jean de Barbançon 15481557
  • Robert de Pellevé 15571579
  • Bertrand du Perron 15791605
  • Joseph d'Esparbès de Lussan 16081625
  • Henri de Sponde 16261629
  • Jean de Sponde 16391643
  • Henri de Sponde 1643 (second time)
  • François Bosquet
  • Jacques de Montrouge
  • François de Caulet 16441680
  • François dAnglure de Bourlemont 16801685
  • François de Camps 16851693
  • Jean-Baptiste de Verthamon 16931735
  • François-Barthélemy de Salignac-Fénelon 17361741
  • Henri-Gaston de Lévis 17411787
  • Joseph-Mathieu d'Agoult 17871790
  • Bernard Font 17911793
  • François de La Tour-Landorthe 18231835
  • Gervais-Marie-Joseph Ortric 18351845
  • Guy-Louis-Jean-Marie Alouvry 18461856
  • Jean-François-Augustin Galtier 18561858
  • Jean-Antoine-Auguste Bélaval 18581881
  • Pierre-Eugène Rougerie 18811907
  • Martin-Jérôme Izart 19071916 (also archbishop of Bourges)
  • Pierre Marceillac 19161947
  • Félix Guiller 19471961
  • Maurice-Mathieu Louis Rigaud 19611968 (also archbishop of Auch)
  • Henri-Lugagne Delpon 19681970
  • Léon-Raymond Soulier 19711987
  • Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon, O.P 19881999 (went on to the post of Bishop of Meaux)
  • Marcel-Germain Perrier 20002009, resigned
  • Philippe Mousset 2009present

External links

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


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