Archdiocese of Bourges

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The Archdiocese of Bourges is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Since 2002 it has lost its metropolitan function, its province having already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had once largely corresponded.

From 2000 it was led by Archbishop Hubert Barbier, but his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on September 11, 2007, making him Archbishop Emeritus. His successor as Archbishop-elect is Bishop Armand Maillard of the Diocese of Laval.

Contents 1 History 1.1 List of Bishops (incomplete) 1.2 To 1000 1.3 From 1000 2 Notes 3 External links

[edit] History

The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.

[edit] List of Bishops (incomplete)

[edit] To 1000

• St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
• Sevitianus
• Aetherius
• Thecretus
• Marcellus (all prior to 337)
• Palladius (377-384)
• Leo (453)
• Simplicius (472-480)
• Arcadius of Bourges
• Desideratus (541-550)
• Probianus
• Felix of Bourges
• Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century)
• Sulpitius I of Bourges (584-591)
• Austregisilus (612-624)
• Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624-644)
• David (793-802)
• Agilulfus (c. 820-840)
• Raoul of Turenne 840-866
• Wulfad 866-876^[1]
• Frotharius (876-c.893)
• Hugh of Blois (969-985)^[2]
• Dagbert (987-1013)^[2]

[edit] From 1000

• Gauzlin Capet (1013-1030)^[2]
• Alberich of Reims (1136-1141)
• Henry de Sully (d. 1200)
• William of Donjeon (1200-09)
• Philip Berruyer (d.1261)
• Aegidius a Columnis (1298-1316)
• Blessed Roger le Fort (1343-1367)
• Pierre d'Estaing
• Jean Coeur
• Andrew Forman 1513
• François de Tournon
• Renaud de Beaune 1581
• André Fremiot
• Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur
• Georges-Louis Phélypeaux
• Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy, 1802-1811
• Guillaume Aubin de Villèle 1824
• Louis-Ernest Dubois
• Louis-Joseph Fillon
• Hubert Barbier (2000-2007)
• Armand Maillard (2007-)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ WULFAD
2. ^ ^{a b c} Devailly, Guy (1973). Le diocèse de Bourges (in French). Paris: Letouzey & Ane, p. 247. OCLC 815696. “Hugues de Blois 969-985” 

[edit] External links

• Archevêques de Bourges
• Lists of Bishops and Archbishops