Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles

Diocese of Versailles Dioecesis Versaliensis Diocèse de Versailles
Versailles Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Paris
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Paris
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 1,441,147 935,000 (64.9%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	29 November 1801
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Louis in Versailles
Patron saint	St. Louis IX of France
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Lucien Crepy
Metropolitan Archbishop	Laurent Ulrich
Emeritus Bishops	Jean-Charles Thomas Éric Aumonier
Map
Locator map of Diocese of Versailles
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles (Latin: Dioecesis Versaliensis; French: Diocèse de Versailles) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versailles, was established in 1801. Until then, its territory had mostly been part of the Archdiocese of Paris and the Diocese of Chartres. It was centred on Versailles.

History

On its creation, the territory of the diocese of Versailles corresponded to the département of Seine-et-Oise. Following the boundary changes of the départements of Île-de-France, new dioceses were established on 9 October 1966. The diocese of Versailles was therefore modified to correspond to the département of Yvelines, following the creation of the Dioceses of Évry–Corbeil-Essones, Nanterre, Saint-Denis, Créteil, Pontoise.

Bishops of Versailles

1. Louis Charrier de La Roche (1802–1827)
2. Jean-François-Étienne Borderies (1827–1832)
3. Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1832–1844)
4. Jean-Nicaise Gros (1844–1857)
5. Jean-Pierre Mabille (1858–1877)
6. Pierre-Antoine-Paul Goux (1877–1904)
7. Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier (1906–1931)
8. Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin (1931–1952)
9. Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard (1953–1967)
10. Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux (1967–1988)
11. Jean-Charles Thomas (1988–2001)
12. Éric Aumonier (2001–2020)
13. Lucien Crepy (2021–present)

The native bishops of Versailles

• Thierry Jordan, archbishop of Reims
• Stanislas Lalanne, bishop of Coutances et Avranches
• Olivier de Berranger, bishop of Saint-Denis
• Pascal Roland, bishop of Moulins
• Albert Malbois, bishop emeritus of Évry

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
• Official site of the diocese
• Diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org