History
In 374, the town of Sisteron belonged to the Province of Gallia Narbonensis Secunda, and held the rank of sixth place. In 890, the bishops of Provence assembled in the Council of Valence, under the leadership of the archbishops of Lyon, Arles, Embrun, and Vienne. The bishops took note of the fact that Archbishop Bernoin of Vienne had been to Rome to complain to the pope of the increasing disorder of the kingdom since the death of Charlemagne. They singled out the invasions of the Northmen and of the Saracens, who had caused the depopulation of the entire area. On 7 July 1057, Pope Victor II wrote a letter of privileges for Archbishop Winimann (Viminien) of Embrun. In the bull, the Pope took note of the invasion, occupation, and devastation of the city of Embrun by the Saracens. Embrun had also been a place of refuge for undisciplined people fleeing from other localities. Sisteron is a distance of some 52 miles from Embrun, and on the main route of invasion from Aix and Marseille. The whole of Provence, in fact, suffered from similar difficulties in the eighth and ninth centuries. This may account, at least in part, for the absence of names of any bishops of Sisteron in the 8th century, and the dubious nature of those in the 9th. In 1400 and 1401 the Dominican friar,Bishops
to 1000
* hrysaphius (ca. 449–452)* Johannes I (500–516 ?) * Valerius (517) * Avolus (ca. 541–554) * Genesius (573) * Pologronius (584–585) * Secundinus (I.) (614) * Johannes (II.) (812–860) : Viventius (ninth century) : Magnibert (ninth century) : Amantius (ninth century) : Secundinus II. (ninth century) : Virmagnus (ninth century) * Bonus (867) * Vincentius (end of ninth century) :? Eustorgus (tenth century) * Arnulphus (c. 925 ?) * Johannes (III.) (mid-tenth century) * Ours (967) :? Rudolf (I.) (981)1000 to 1400
* Frodo (999–1015?) * Durandus (1015 ?–1020 ?) * Pierre (I.) (1023–1043) * Géraud ? (1031 ?–1045 ?) * Pierre (II.) (1043) * Gérard (I.) Chevrier (1060–1080 ?) * Carolus (1082) :... * ? Nitard (end of eleventh century) :... * Bertrand (I.) (1102 ? – 1105 ?) :... * Gerardus (II.) (1110–1124) * Raimbaud, O.S.B. (1125 ?–1145) * Pierre de Sabran (1145–1171) * Bertrand (II.), O.Cart. (1172–1174) * Bermond d'Anduse (1174–1214) : ''Sede vacante'' (1214–1216) * Rodolphe (II.), O.Cist. (1216–1241) * Henri de Suze (1244–1250) * Humbert Fallavel, O.P. (1250–1256) * Alain de Lusarches (1257–1277) * Pierre Giraud (1277–1291) * Pierre d'Alamanon, O.P. (1292–1304) * Jacques Gantelmi (1306–1310) * Raimond d'Oppède (1310–1328) * Rostan (I.) (1328–1348) * Pierre Artaudi, O.P. (1349–1360) * Gérard (III.) (1362–1369) * Ranulphe de Gorze (1370–1382) (Urbanite) * Artaud de Mélan (1382–1404)(Clementine) * Antoine de Viale (1383–1386) (Urbanite)from 1400
* Nicolas Sacosta, O.Min. (1404–1414) * Robert du Four (1414–1437) * Mitre Gastinel (1437–1440) : aimond Talon (1437): Gaucher de Forcalquier (1440–1442) * Charles de Borna (1442–1456) * Jacques Radulphi (1456–1463) * André de Plaisance (1463–1477) * Jean Esquenart (1477–1492) * Thibaud de la Tour d'Auvergne (1493–1499) * Laurent Bureau (1499–1504) * Pierre Filholi (1504–1506) * François de Dinteville (1506–1514) * Claude de Louvain (1514–1520) * Michel de Savoie (1520–1522) * Claude d'Aussonville, O.S.B. (1523–1531) * Antoine de Narbonne, O.S.B. (1531–1541) * Albin de Rochechouard (1542–1543) * Émeric de Rochechouard (1543–1580) * Antoine de Couppes, O.S.B. (1582–1606) * Toussaint de Glandevès (1606–1648) * Antoine d'Arbaud (1648–1666) * Michel Poncet (1667–1675) * Jacques Potier (1677–1681) * Louis de Thomassin (1682–1718) * Pierre-François Lafitau (1720–1764) * Louis-Jérôme de Suffren (1764–1789) * François de Bovet (1789–1801)François de Bovet was nominated by King Louis XVI one month before Bastille Day. He was approved by Pope Pius VI on 3 August 1789. He emigrated to Italy, then Germany, and then England, but returned to France with the Bourbons in 1814. He resigned in 1812. He was promoted to the diocese of Toulouse on 1 October 1817, which he resigned in 1820 due to ill health. He died in 1838 at the age of 92. Jean, p. 29; Albanès, pp. 780-782. Ritzler, VI, p. 382 and note 3.See also
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