The Diocese of Bazas, centred on

Bazas Bazas (; ) is a commune in Gironde, a department in southwestern France. Geography Bazas stands on a narrow promontory above the Beuve valley 60 km/37 mi southeast of Bordeaux and 40 km/25 mi southwest of Marmande. Hi ...

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, covered the Bazadais region, known under the

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as the ''Vasatensis pagus'' after the ancient occupants, the Vasates. In the 2nd century it was part of the

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, one of the seventeen provinces of

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. The diocese must have been created between the first and the third centuries, but because of the large numbers of invaders that passed through this region -

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- the list of bishops is much reduced during the first millennium. The first bishop of this diocese is mentioned, without a name, by

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in his ''De gloria martyrum''. The diocese of Bazas, the seat of which was the cathedral of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bazas, was bordered on the north by the diocese of Périgueux, on the east by the

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and the

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, on the south by the

diocese of Aire The Diocese of Aire and Dax (Latin'':'' ''Dioecesis Adurensis et Aquae Augustae''; French: ''Diocèse d'Aire et Dax'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It comprises the ''département'' o ...

and the

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, and on the west by the

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. It was divided into three archdeaconries. It was suppressed during the French Revolution by the Legislative Assembly, under the

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(1790). By the

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its territory was unequally divided between the dioceses of Aire, Agen and Bordeaux. The title of the diocese of Bazas was preserved and assigned to the

Archdiocese of Bordeaux-Bazas The Archdiocese of Bordeaux (–Bazas) (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Burdigalensis (–Bazensis)''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Bordeaux (–Bazas)''; Occitan: ''Archidiocèsi de Bordèu (–Vasats)'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or a ...

Bishops of Bazas

to 1300

* after 406: bishop, name unknown, mentioned by

* 506 and 511: Sextilius * 585: Orestes * 614: Gudualdus * 673-675: Gundulfus :... * 977-980: Gombaud, bishop of Gascony : c. 980-1000: Arsius Raca (Administrator during the minority of Hugo) * 1000- c. 1012: Hugues : c. 1012- c. 1025 or 1029: Arsius Raca * c. 1025- c. 1059: Raimond 'Vetulus' (the Elder) * 1059-1084: Raimond the Younger * 1084 - c. 1103: Étienne de Sentes * 1104-1126: Bertrand de Baslade * 1126 - c. 1134: Geoffroy or Godefroy * 1134-1143 or 1144: Fortis Guarini de Pellegrue * 1144-1146: Raimond * 1146- c. 1165: Guillaume Arnaud de Tontoulon * c. 1165-1186: Garsias de Benquet * 1186-1213 or 1214: Gaillard de la Mothe * 1214-1219: Guillaume II * 1219-1242: Arnaud I de Pins * 1242-1265: Raimond IV de Castillon * 1265-1277: Guillaume III de Pins * 1277-1294 or 1296: Hugues II de Rochefort * 1294 ou 1296-1299: Guillaume IV Geoffroy * 1299-1302: Arnaud Falquet, Fouquet, Foucaud or Foulques

since 1300

* 1302-1313 and 1319:

Guillaume V Arnaud de La Mothe Guillaume V Arnaud de La Mothe was a fourteenth century Catholic Bishop of Bazas and Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, both in France.Theobald de Castillon Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans. The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...

(Thibault) * 1318-1319: Guillaume de La Mothe (again) * 1319–1325 Guillaume * 1325-1334: Pictavin (Poitevin) de Montesquiou * 1334-1348: Gaillard de Fargues or de la Trave or de Préchac * 1348-1357:

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* 1358-1360: Géraud or Gérald du Puy or du Puch (de Podio) * 1360: Pierre * 1361-1368: Guillaume VII * 1371-1374: Guillaume IX de Montlaur

Great Western Schism

* ''Allegiance to Avignon'' * 1374-1394: Jean I de Caseton, O.Min. * 1395-1397: Guillaume X d'Ortholan * 1397-1417: Pierre II Saupin * ''Allegiance to Rome'' * 1393: Maurice Usk, O.P. * 1396 - c. 1411 or 1412: Jean de Heremo, O.E.S.A.

Return to unity

* 1421- c. 1430: Bernard d'Yvon * 1433-1446: Henri François de Cavier * 1447-1450:

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* 1450-1457: Raimond de Tulle * 1457-1485: Raimond du Treuil, O.Min. * 1486-1504: Jean de Bonald * 1504-1520: Cardinal

Amanieu d'Albret Amanieu d'Albret (1478 – 1520) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal. Life Amanieu d'Albret was born in the Kingdom of France ca. 1478, the son of Alain I of Albret, and Frances, Countess of Périgord. His older brother Jean married Catherine ...

(Administrator) * 1521-1528: Symphorien Bullioud * 1528-1531: Foucauld de Bonnevald * 1531-1544: Jean IV de Plats or Plas * 1544-1554: Annet de Plas * 1555-1558 or 1561: Jean Baptiste Alamanni : 1558-1559: Amanieu de Foix, died before taking possession of his bishopric. * 1563-1564: Jean de Balaguier * 1564-1572: François de Balaguier * 1572-1605: Arnaud de Pontac * 1605-1631: Jean Jaubert de Barrault de Blaignac * 1631-1633: Nicolas de Grillié, Grillet or Grilles * 1633-1645: Henri II Listolfi Maroni * 1646-1667: Samuel Martineau de Turé * 1668-1684: Guillaume de Boissonade d'Orty * 1685-1724: Jacques-Joseph de Gourgue * 1724-1746:

Edme Mongin Edme Mongin (January 1668 – 5 May 1746) was a French preacher and bishop of Bazas. He was born in Baroville and died, aged about 78, in Bazas.Louis Moréri, ''Dictionnaire Historique'', 1731, 1 vol. p. 52. He was the son of Etienne Mongin ...

, occupied Seat 26 of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

(1707-1746) * 1746-1792: Jean Baptiste II Amédée de Grégoire de Saint-Sauveur

References

Bibliography

Reference works

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Studies

* *Dupuy, Jérôme-Géraud (1747), ''Chronique de Bazas'', in
''Archives historiques du département de la Gironde'' Tome 15
(1874), pp. 1–67. * * * {{Authority control

History of Aquitaine 1801 disestablishments in France