Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire and Dax

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Diocese of Aire et Dax

Dioecesis Aturensis et Aquae Augustae

Diocèse d'Aire et Dax
Aire Adour cathédrale.jpg
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Bordeaux
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Statistics
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Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2012)
377,381
264,000 (70%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established Name Changed: 3 June 1857
Cathedral Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Aire
Co-cathedral Cathedral of Notre Dame in Dax
Patron saint Notre-Dame de Buglose
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Hervé Gaschignard
Metropolitan Archbishop Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard
Emeritus Bishops Philippe Jean Louis Breton Bishop Emeritus (2002-2012)
Robert Pierre Sarrabère, Bishop Emeritus (1978-2002)
Website
Website of the Diocese
File:Cathédrale de Dax 3.jpg
Dax Cathedral

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Landes, in the Region of Aquitaine.

It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch under the old regime, but was not re-established until 1822, when it was again made a suffragan of the re-established Archdiocese of Auch, and was assigned the territory of the former Diocese of Aire and Diocese of Acqs (Dax). It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux.

It has been known since 1857 as the Diocese of Aire et Dax.[1]

It is a co-cathedral diocese, with sees Aire Cathedral and Dax Cathedral.

History

The first bishop mentioned in history is Marcellus, represented at the Council of Agde, 506. Aire, on the river Adour, the home of St. Philibert, numbered among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid and founded a chair of mathematics at the University of Bordeaux.

The hamlet renowned as the birthplace of St. Vincent de Paul is within the limits of the present Diocese of Aire. In the Gallo-Roman crypt of Mas d'Aire is preserved in a sarcophagus the body of St. Quitteria, daughter of a governor of Gallicia, and martyred, perhaps under Commodus, for her resolution to remain a virgin.

The city of Saint-Sever, in the Diocese of Aire. owes its origin to an ancient Benedictine abbey, built in the tenth century by a Duke of Gascony as an act of thanksgiving for a victory over the Northmen, and whose church was dedicated to St. Severus. The Gothic church of Mimizan is the only survival of a Benedictine abbey. The church of Carcarés, dating from the year 810, is one of the oldest in France.

Bishops

To 1000

  • 506, 533 : Marcellus
  • 585 : Rusticus
  • 614 : Palladius
  • ca. 620–630 : Philibaud
  • ca. 633–675 : Ursus
  • ca. 788 : Asinarius
  • ca. 977 : Gombaud

1000 to 1300

  • ca. 1017 : Arsius-Racca
  • 1060 : Raymond le Vieux
  • 1060–1092 : Peter I.
  • 1092–1099 : Peter II.
  • 1100–1115 : Wilhelm
  • 1116–1147 : Bonhomme
  • 1148–ca. 1176 : Vital de Saint-Hermes
  • ca. 1176–1179 : Odon d’Arbéchan
  •  ? : Bertrand de Marsan
  •  ? : Guillaume Bernard
  • 1211 : Vital de Beufmort
  • 1211 : Jourdain
  •  ? : Gauthier
  • 1224–1237 : Auger
  • 1237–1266 : Pierre III. et Raymond de Saint-Martin
  • 1266–1295 : Pierre IV. de Betous
  • 1295–1307 : Martin

1300-1500

1500 to 1800

  • 1512–1516 : Antoine du Monastey
  • 1516–22. December 1521 : Arnaud-Guillaume d’Aydie
  • 24. April 1523 – 1530 : Charles de Gramont
  • 9. March 1530–6. February 1538 : Gabriel de Saluces
  • 1538–1560 : Jacques de Saint-Julien
  • 1560–4. September 1570 : Christophe de Foix-Candale
  • 1576–5. February 1594 : François de Foix-Candale
  • Vacant
  • 4. December 1606 – 1621 : Cospéan
  • 1621–17. January 1625 : Sébastien Bouthilier
  • 1625–1649 : Gilles Boutault
  • 1650–1657 : Charles-François de Bourlemont
  • 1657–12. October 1672 - Bernard de Sariac
  • 12. January 1673–18. December 1684 : Jean-Louis de Fromentières
  • 1693–29. March 1698 : Armand Bazin de Bezons
  • 1698–1706 : Louis-Gaston Fleuriau d’Armenonville
  • 1706–30. June 1710 : François-Gaspard de la Mer de Matha
  • 1710–1723 : Joseph-Gaspard de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem
  • 1723–1734 : Gilbert de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem
  • 1735–1757 : François de Sarret de Gaujac
  • 1758–1783 : Playcard de Raigecourt
  • 1783–1801 : Sébastien-Charles-Philibert de Cahuzac de Caux
File:Rennes - Ecclesia Campus - Monseigneur Hervé Gaschignard - 1.jpg
Hervé Gaschignard

From 1800

Notes

  1. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy: see below

Sources

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