Roman Catholic Diocese of Tréguier

The former Breton and French diocese of Tréguier existed in Lower Brittany from about the sixth century, or later, to the French Revolution. Its see was at Tréguier, in the modern department of Côtes-d'Armor.

Tréguier Cathedral

The title continues in the contemporary diocese of Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier.

History

St. Tudgual (Tugdual, Tudual),^[1] said to be the nephew of St. Brieuc (who had emigrated from Cardigan), was a bishop who came to Brittany from overseas (Scotland^[2]),^[3] and was appointed by his uncle Brieuc at the close of the fifth century as superior of the monastery of Tréguier, which Tudual had founded. The biography of St. Tudual, composed after the middle of the ninth century, relates that Tudual, wishing to confirm his authority by royal approval, travelled to the court of King Childebert I, who ordered him consecrated Bishop of Tréguier.^[4] Louis Duchesne, however, argued that it was King Nomenoe who, in the middle of the ninth century, had the monastery of Tréguier raised to the dignity of an episcopal see.^[5]

Numerous synods were held at Tréguier in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,^{[weasel words]} and passed regulations for the discipline of the Breton churches.^[6]

Bishops

to 1400

• c. 1032: Wiliam I.
• c. 1045: Martin
• c. 1086: Hugo I. de Saint-Pabutral
• c. 1110–c. 1128: Raoul I.
• c. 1150–c. 1175: William II.
• 1175–1179: Ives I Hougnon
• 1179–c. 1220: Geoffroi I. Loiz
• c. 1224–c. 1237: Stephan
• c. 1238: Peter I.
• 1255–c. 1265: Hamon
• c. 1266–c. 1271: Alain I. de Lezardrieu
• c. 1284: Alain II. de Bruc
• 1286–c. 1310: Geoffroi II. de Tournemine
• c. 1317: Jean I. Rigaud
• c. 1324: Pierre II. de l'Isle
• 1327–1330: Ives II. Le Prévôt de Bois Boëssel
• 1330–1338: Alain III. de Haïloury
• 1339–c. 1345: Richard du Poirier
• c. 1354: Robert I. de Peynel
• 1355–1358: Hugues II. de Monstrelet
• 1358–1362: Alain IV.
• 28 November 1362 – 1371: Even Bégaignon
• 12 June 1372 – 1378: Jean II. Brun
• 1378–1383: Thibaud de Malestroit
• 1383–1384: Hugues III. de Keroulay
• 1385–3 May 1401: Pierre III. Morel

1400 to 1600

• 1401–1403: Ives III. Hirgouët
• 1404–1408: Bernard de Peyron
• 1408–1416: Christophe I. d'Hauterive
• 15. December 1417 – 1422: Matthieu du Kosker
• 29. April 1422 – 1430: Jean III. de Bruc
• 1430–27. August 1435: Pierre IV. Piédru (or Predou) (also Bishop of Saint-Malo)
• 1435–1441: Raoul II. Rolland
• 4. May 1442 – 1453: Jean IV. de Plouec
• 16. March 1454–23. September 1464: Jean V. de Coetquis
• 8. January 1466 – 1479: Christophe II. du Châtel
• 1480–1483: Cardinal Raphaël de Saint-Georges
• 1483–1502: Robert II. Guibé
• 1502–7. March 1505: Jean VI. de Talhouët
• 22 November 1505–16. November 1537: Antoine du Grignaux
• 14 June 1538 – 1540 or 1541: Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme
• 1541–1544: Cardinal Hippolyte d'Este
• 1544–1545: Jean VII. de Rieux
• 8 June 1545 – 1547: François I. de Manaz
• 1548–27. October 1566: Jean VIII. Juvénal des Ursins
• 1566–1572: Claude de Kernovenoy
• 1572–1583: Jean-Baptiste Le Gras
• 1583–1593: François II. de La Tour
• 1593–29. October 1602: Guillace III. du Halgoët

1600 to 1800

• 1604–29. July 1616: Georges-Louet-Adrien d'Amboise
• 1616–1620: Pierre V. Cornullier
• 1620–14. September 1635: Gui Champion
• 1636–19. August 1645: Noël des Landes'
• 1646–1679: Balthasar Grangier de Liverdis
• 1679–1686: François-Ignace de Baglion
• 1686–15. May 1694: Eustache Le Sénéchal de Carcado (or Kercado)
• 1694–1731: Olivier Jégou de Kervilio
• 1731–1745: François-Hyacinthe de La Fruglaye de Kervers
• 1746–30. August 1761: Charles-Gui Le Borgne de Kermorvan
• 1761–1766: Joseph-Dominique de Chaylus
• 26. April 1767 – 1773: Jean-Marc de Royère
• 1773–1775: Jean-Augustin de Frétat de Sarra
• 6 August 1775 – 1780: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Lubersac
• 1780–1790 (1801): Augustin-René-Louis Le Mintier

See also

• Catholic Church in France
• List of Catholic dioceses in France

References

1. Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1887). Histoire de Bretagne: Les trois vies anciennes de Saint Tudual; texte latin et commentaire historique (in French). Paris: H. Champion. pp. 57–61. Kershaw, pp. 220, 246–247.
2. Second Life: La Borderie. p. 14.
3. He came with 72 disciples (the same number of disciples as Jesus had), according to the First Life and the Third Life. He went to the court of King Childebert with twelve disciples (the same number of apostles as Jesus had): La Borderie, p. 13, 25.
4. La Borderie, p. 13: Tunc rex dedit illi episcopatum et praesulatum super suas parrochias et sanctis qui cum eo venerunt, et ibi eum ordinare fecit in episcopali gradu. ('Then the king gave him the diocese and the episcopal control over his parishes and the saints who had come with him, and there ordered him to be ordained a bishop.') And on that day he sang a Mass in the presence of the King....
5. Duchesne, II (1910), pp. 390–392.
6. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint-Brieuc

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 641–642. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 494.
• Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 254.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help) p. 317.
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592–1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 6 July 2016. pp. 342.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667–1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016. p. 387.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730–1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016. pp. 413–414.

Studies

• Chadwick, Nora Kershaw (1969). Early Brittany. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 9780900768262.
• Duchesne, Louis (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French)
• Hauréau, Barthélemy (1856). Gallia Christiana: In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa... De provincia Turonensi (in Latin). Vol. Tomus Quartus decimus (XIV). Paris: Typographia Regia. pp. 1119–1142, Instrumenta, pp. 271–274.
• Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. pp. 454–458.
• Poquet du Haut-Jussé, B.A. (1947). "Les évêques de Bretagne dans la renaissance religeuse du XVIIe siècle". Annales de Bretagne (in French). 54: 30–59. doi:10.3406/abpo.1947.1847. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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