The Archdiocese of Marseille (
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: ''Archidioecesis Massiliensis'';
French: ''Archidiocèse de Marseille'') is a
Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or
archdiocese of the
Catholic Church
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in
France
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.
["Archdiocese of Marseille"]
''Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017["Metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille"]
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 The archepiscopal see is in the city of
Marseille, and the diocese comprises the
arrondissement
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Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements ...
of
Marseille, a subdivision of the department of
Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône ( , , ; oc, Bocas de Ròse ; "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and ...
in the
Region
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of
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
History
The Church of Marseille is said to have been erected in the first century by
St. Lazarus, the young man mentioned in the Gospels who had been raised from the dead by Jesus Christ himself. His family migrated to Provence at some point after the Resurrection.
Revolution
The diocese of Marseille was abolished during the
French Revolution
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, under the ''
Civil Constitution of the Clergy'' (1790). Its territory was subsumed into the new diocese, called the 'Bouches-du-Rhone', which was part of the Metropolitanate called the 'Metropole des Côtes de la Méditerranée (which included ten new 'departements'). The electors of 'Bouches-du-Rhone' met at Aix beginning on 19 February 1791, and on 23 February elected Abbé Charles Benoît Roux, curé of Eyragues near Arles. He was consecrated in Paris by Constitutional Bishops Gobel, Miroudot and Gouttes. He very much enjoyed the social life of Marseille, but after the execution of Louis XVI on 21 January 1793, Roux joined the counter-revolutionaries. When Marseille was occupied by troops of the Convention, he fled to Aix. He was arrested and imprisoned on 20 September; he was taken to Marseille, where he faced a tribunal of the Revolution which condemned him to death. He was executed on 5 April 1794.
An archdiocese
The diocese was raised to the level of an Archdiocese on 31 January 1948 by
Pope Pius XII. The
suffragans of the archdiocese are: the
Archdiocese of Aix, the
Diocese of Ajaccio, the
Archdiocese of Avignon, the
Diocese of Digne
The Diocese of Digne (Latin: ''Dioecesis Diniensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Digne'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Digne, the diocese has been ...
, the
Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, the
Diocese of Gap, and the
Diocese of Nice.
In recent times the Archdiocese of Marseille has suffered from significant
shortage of priests, despite having a reported Catholic population of over 700,000 not a single priest was ordained in 2018 or 2019.
Bishops and Archbishops of Marseille
to 1000
*Oresius (ca. 314)
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Proculus
Proculus (died c. 281) was a Roman usurper, one of the "minor pretenders" according to ''Historia Augusta'', who would have taken the purple against Emperor Probus in 280. This is now disputed.
Probably Proculus had family connection with the Fr ...
*
Venerius (ca. 431–451)
*
Eustasius (attested in 463)
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Graecus
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*
Honoratus (ca. 496–500)
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Cannatus (second half of the fifth century)
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Theodorus (ca. 580s)
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Serenus
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Petrus of Marseille
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Abdalong (8th century)
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Maurontus (ca. 780)
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Yvo (attested on 12 March 781)
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Wadalus (813–818)
*Theobertus (ca. 822–841)
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Alboin (attested 843/844)
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Litiduinus (attested in 878 and 879)
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Berengarius (attested in 884)
*
ulfaric(9th century)
*
enator(9th century)
*Drogon (attested in 923 and 924)
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Pons
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The pons is also called the pons Varolii ("bridge of Va ...
(977–1008)
1000–1500
*Pons (1008–1073)
*Raymond (1073 – 7 November 1122)
*Raymond de Soliers (1122 – 26 April 1151)
*Pierre (1151 – 2 April 1170)
*Fulco de Thorame (1170 – 31 March 1188)
*Rainier (1188–1214)
*Pierre de Montlaur (7 October 1217 – 29 August 1229)
*Benoît d'Aligan, O.S.B. (1229–1267)
*Raymond of Nîmes (23 December 1267 – 15 July 1288)
[Eubel, I, p. 330.]
*Durand de Trésémines (17 April 1289 – 3 August 1312)
*Raymond Robaudi (1 January 1313 – 12 September 1319) (transferred to Archbishopric of Embrun)
*Gasbert de la Val (18 September 1319 – 26 August 1323) (transferred to Arles)
*Aymar Amiel (26 August 1323 – 23 December 1333)
*Jean Artaudi (10 January 1334 – 1335, after July 7)
*Joannes Gasqui (13 October 1335 – 10 September 1344)
*Robert de Mandagot (13 September 1344 – 1358)
*Hugh d'Arpajon (4 February 1359 – 31 May 1361)
*Pierre Fabri (1361, June–September?)
*Guillaume Sudre, O.P. (27 August 1361 – 1366)
*
Philippe de Cabassole (1366–1368) Administrator
*Guillaume de la Voute (9 December 1368 – 1 July 1379) (transferred to Valence-et-Die, by
Clement VII
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Aymar de La Voute (1379-1395)
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Benoît II (1397-1418)
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Paul de Sade (1418-1420)
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Avignon Nicolaï (1420-1421)
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André Boutaric (1433)
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Barthélémy Rocalli (1433-1445)
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Louis de Glandevès (1445)
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Nicola de Brancas (1445-1466)
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Jean Alardeau (1466-1496)
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Ogier d'Anglure (1496-1506)
1500 to 1700
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Pierre Baudonis (1506)
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Antoine Dufour (1506-1509)
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Claude de Seyssel (1511-1517)
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Innocent Cibo (1517-1530)
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Jean-Baptiste Cibo (1530-1550)
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Cristoforo Guidalotti Ciocchi del Monte (1550-1556)
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Pierre Ragueneau (1556-1572)
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Frédéric Ragueneau (1572-1603)
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Jacques Turricella (1605-1618)
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Arthur d'Épinay de Saint-Luc (1619-1621)
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Nicolas Coëffeteau (1621)
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François de Loménie (1624-1639)
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Eustache Gault (1639-1640)
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Jean-Baptiste Gault (1640-1643)
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Étienne de Puget (1644-1668)
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Toussaint de Forbin-Janson (1668–1679)
*Jean-Baptiste d'Estampes de Valençay (12 January 1680 – 6 January 1684)
*Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc (21 January 1692 – 14 May 1708)
1700 to 1948
*Bernard de Poudenx (14 May 1708 – 19 January 1709)
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Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron (19 February 1710 – 4 June 1755)
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Jean-Baptiste de Belloy (4 August 1755 – 21 September 1801)
**Charles Benoît Roux (Constitutional Bishop) (1791–1794)
:
801–1817Diocese of Marseille suppressed, by the
Concordat of 1801
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.
*Charles-Fortuné de Mazenod (1823–1837)
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Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1837–1861)
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Patrice Cruice (18 Jun 1861 – 1 Sep 1865)
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Charles-Philippe Place (6 Jan 1866 – 13 Jun 1878)
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Joseph Robert (13 Jun 1878 – 19 Nov 1900)
*Cardinal
Pierre Andrieu (5 Apr 1901 – 2 Jan 1909)
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Joseph-Marie Fabre (29 Apr 1909 – 9 Jan 1923 )
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Daniel Champavier (19 Jan 1923 – 2 Feb 1928 )
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Maurice-Louis Dubourg (17 Dec 1928 – 9 Dec 1936 )
*
Jean Delay (14 Aug 1937 – 5 Sep 1956 ) first Archbishop of Marseille (31 January 1948)
Archbishops of Marseille since 1948
*
Marc-Armand Lallier (28 September 1956 – 26 August 1966 )
*Georges Jacquot (1 November 1966 – 25 September 1970 )
*Cardinal
Roger Etchegaray
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(22 December 1970 – 13 April 1985 )
*Cardinal
Robert Coffy
Robert Joseph Coffy (24 October 1920 – 15 July 1995) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.
Early life and education
Coffy was born on 24 October 1920 in Le Biot. His father was a carpenter. He entered the Semin ...
(13 April 1985 – 22 April 1995 )
*Cardinal
Bernard Panafieu (22 April 1995 – 12 May 2006 )
*
Georges Pontier (12 May 2006 – 8 August 2019)
[
* Jean-Marc Aveline (8 August 2019]
See also
* Catholic Church in France
*Église Saint-Joseph (Marseille)
The Église Saint-Joseph is a Roman Catholic church in Marseille.
Location
It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille. The exact address is at 124-126 rue Paradis.
History
The church, alongside Église Saint-Charles in the 1st arrondi ...
* List of Catholic dioceses in France
References
Bibliography
Reference works
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* pp. 573–575. (Use with caution; obsolete)
* (in Latin) pp. 329–330.
* (in Latin) p. 187.
* p. 237-238.
* pp. 234.
* pp. 260.
* p. 280.
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Studies
* ncritical of Christian mythology, uses hagiography as history*
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* second edition (in French)
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External links
* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919''
retrieved: 2016-12-24.
Diocesan website
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