Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon

The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis; French: Archidiocèse de Lyon), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The archbishops of Lyon are also called primates of Gaul.^[1] An archbishop is usually elevated by the pope to the rank of cardinal.

Archdiocese of Lyon Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis Archidiocèse de Lyon
Lyon Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Territory	Rhône, Loire
Ecclesiastical province	Lyon
Coordinates	45°45′39″N 4°49′37″E
Statistics
Area	5,087 km2 (1,964 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 2,038,830 1,304,240  (64%)
Parishes	132
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	2nd century
Cathedral	Primatial Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Lyon
Patron saint	St. Irenaeus of Lyon Saint Pothinus
Secular priests	260 (diocesan) 52 (Religious Orders) 90 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Olivier de Germay
Suffragans	Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges Diocese of Valence Diocese of Viviers Diocese of Belley–Ars Archdiocese of Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and Tarentaise Diocese of Annecy Diocese of Saint-Étienne
Auxiliary Bishops	Patrick Le Gal Loïc Lagadec Thierry Brac de La Perrière
Bishops emeritus	Philippe Barbarin
Map
Website
lyon.catholique.fr

Ecclesiastical province of Lyon

Bishop Olivier de Germay was appointed archbishop on 22 October 2020.

History

In the Notitia Galliarum of the 5th century, the Roman Provincia Gallia Lugdunensis Prima contained the cities of Metropolis civitas Lugdunensium (Lyon), Civitas Aeduorum (Autun), Civitas Lingonum (Langres), Castrum Cabilonense (Chaâlons-sur-Saône) and Castrum Matisconense (Mâcon).^[2]

The confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, where sixty Gallic tribes had erected the altar to Rome and Augustus, was also the centre from which Christianity was propagated throughout Gaul.

Persecution

The presence at Lyon of numerous Asiatic Christians and their communications with the Orient were likely to arouse the susceptibilities of the Gallo-Romans. A persecution arose under Marcus Aurelius. Its victims at Lyon numbered forty-eight, half of them of Greek origin, half Gallo-Roman, among others Saint Blandina, and Saint Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyon, sent to Gaul by Saint Polycarp about the middle of the 2nd century. The legend according to which Pothinus was sent by Pope Clement I dates from the 12th century and is without foundation.

The "Deacon of Vienne", mentioned in the letter of the faithful of Vienne^[3] and Lyon to the Christians of Asia and Phrygia, who was martyred at Lyon during the persecution of 177,^[4] was probably a deacon installed at Vienne by the ecclesiastical authority of Lyon.^[5] Tradition represents the church of Ainay as erected at the place of their martyrdom. The crypt of Saint Pothinus, under the choir of the church of St. Nizier, was destroyed in 1884. But there still exists at Lyon the purported prison cell of Pothinus, where Anne of Austria, Louis XIV, and Pius VII came to pray, and the crypt of Saint Irenaeus built at the end of the 5th century by Archbishop Patiens, which contains his remains.

Irenaeus sent out missionaries through the Gauls, as local legends of Besançon and of several other cities indicate.^[6] There are numerous funerary inscriptions of primitive Christianity in Lyon; the earliest dates from the year 334. Faustinus, bishop in the second half of the 3rd century, wrote to Cyprian of Carthage, who speaks of him in a letter to Pope Stephen I, in 254, regarding the Novatian tendencies of Marcian, Bishop of Arles.^[7]

But when Diocletian's new provincial organization (the Tetrarchy) had taken away from Lyon its position as metropolis of the three Gauls, the prestige of Lyon diminished.^[8]

Around the year 470, Lyon fell into the hands of the Burgundians, and around 479 the city of Langres as well.^[9]

Merovingian period

From Saint Eucherius (c. 433–50), a monk of Lérins and the author of homilies, doubtless dates the foundation at Lyon of the "hermitages". Bishop Patiens (456-98) successfully combated famine and Arianism, and whom Sidonius Apollinaris praised in a poem;^[10] Bishop Stephanus (d. before 515), with Bishop Avitus of Vienne convoked a council at Lyon for the conversion of the Arians. Bishop Viventolius (515-523) in 517 presided with Bishop Avitus at the Council of Epaone.

When Burgundian power collapsed under the repeated assaults of the Franks in 534, its territory was divided up, and the third son of Clovis, the Merovingian Childebert I, received Lyon.^[11]

Lupus, a monk, afterwards bishop (535-42), was probably the first to be called a metropolitan archbishop; in 538, the Council of Orléans used the title of "metropolitanus".^[12] Sacerdos (549-542) presided in 549 at the Council of Orléans, and obtained from King Childebert the foundation of the general hospital; Saint Nicetius (552-73) received from the pope the title of patriarch, and whose tomb was honoured by miracles. The prestige of Saint Nicetius was lasting; his successor Saint Priseus (573-588) bore the title of patriarch, and brought the council of 585 to decide that national synods should be convened every three years at the instance of the patriarch and of the king; Ætherius (588-603), who was a correspondent of Pope Gregory I, and who perhaps consecrated Saint Augustine, the Apostle of England; Saint Annemundus or Chamond (c. 650), friend of Saint Wilfrid, godfather of Clotaire III, put to death by Ebroin together with his brother, and patron of the town of Saint-Chamond, Loire; Saint Genesius or Genes (660-679 or 680), Benedictine abbot of Fontenelle, grand almoner and minister of Queen Bathilde; Saint Lambertus (c. 680-690), also abbot of Fontenelle.^[8]

At the end of the 5th century Lyon was the capital of the Kingdom of Burgundy, but after 534 it passed under the domination of the Frankish kings.^[8]

Carolingian period

Ravaged by the Saracens in 725, the city was restored through the liberality of Charlemagne who established a rich library in the monastery of Ile Barbe in the Saône, just north of Lugdunum. The letter of Leidradus to Charlemagne (807)^[13] shows the care taken by the emperor for the restoration of learning in Lyon.^[14] With the aid of the deacon Florus he made the school so prosperous that in the 10th century Englishmen went there to study.^[8]

Under Charlemagne and his immediate successors, the Bishops of Lyon, whose ascendancy was attested by the number of councils over which they were called to preside, played an important theological part. Adoptionism had no more active enemies than Leidradus (798-814) and Agobard (814-840). When Felix of Urgel continued rebellious to the condemnations pronounced against adoptionism from 791-799 by the Councis of Ciutad, Friuli, Ratisbon, Frankfort, and Rome, Charlemagne sent to Urgel Nebridius, Bishop of Narbonne, Benedict of Aniane, and Archbishop Leidradus, a native of Nuremberg and Charlemagne's librarian. They preached against Adoptionism in Spain, conducted Felix in 799 to the Council of Aachen where he seemed to submit to the arguments of Alcuin; he was then brought back to his diocese. But the submission of Felix was not complete; Agobard, "Chorepiscopus" of Lyon, convicted him anew of adoptionism in a secret conference, and when Felix died in 815 there was found among his papers a treatise in which he professed adoptionism. Then Agobard, who had become Archbishop of Lyon in 814 after Leidradus' retirement to the Abbey of St. Medard, Soissons, composed a long treatise against that heresy.^[8]

Agobard and Remy

Archbishop Agobard of Lyon displayed great activity as a pastor and a publicist in his opposition to the Jews and to various superstitions.^[15] His rooted hatred for all superstition led him in his treatise on images into certain expressions which savoured of Iconoclasm. The five historical treatises which he wrote in 833 to justify the deposition of Louis the Pious, who had been his benefactor, are a stain on his reputation.^[16] Louis the Pious, having been restored to power, caused Agobard to be deposed in 835 by the Council of Thionville,^[17] but three years later gave him back his see, in which he died in 840. During the exile of Agobard the See of Lyon had been for a short time administered by Amalarius of Metz, whom the deacon Florus of Lyon, the master of the cathedral school,^[18] charged with heretical opinions regarding the "triforme corpus Christi."^[19] Florus also took part in the controversies with Gottschalk on the subject of predestination.^[20]

It has been contended that there was a university (studium generale) at Lyons by the 13th century, but this has been strongly denied.^[21]

Amolon (841-852)^[22] and Remy (852-75) continued the struggle against the heresy of predestination. At the Council of Valence in January 855,^[23] presided over by Archbishop Remy, this heresy was condemned.^[24] Remy also was engaged in strife with Archbishop Hincmar. of Reims

Political realignments

From 879-1032 Lyon formed part of the Kingdom of Provence and afterwards of the second Kingdom of Burgundy.^[8] In 1032 Rudolph III of Burgundy died, and the Burgundian kingdom eventually went to Conrad II. The portion of Lyon situated on the left (eastern) bank of the Saône became, at least nominally, an imperial city. Finally Archbishop Burchard II, brother of Rudolph,^[8] claimed rights of sovereignty over Lyon as inherited from his mother, Matilda, daughter of Louis IV of France; in this way the government of Lyon, instead of being exercised by the distant emperor, became a matter of dispute between the counts who claimed the inheritance and the successive archbishops.^[8]

In 1025, the second Archbishop Burchard held a council at Anse, on the Saône some 28 km north of Lyon, attended by the archbishops of Vienne and Tarentaise, and nine bishops (Autunm Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Auxerre, Valence, Grenoble Uzès, Aosta, and Maurienne). At the council the bishop of Mâcon complained that Archbishop Burchard of Vienne had ordained priests from the abbey of Cluny, which was in his diocese and under his jurisdiction. Abbot Odilon testified for the archbishop of Vienne, but the council ruled that his actions were uncanonical and the archbishop of Vienne was made to apologize and make reparation.^[25] In the next year, however, the monks of Cluny obtained a privilege from Pope John XIX, which allowed their action.^[26]

Pope Victor II (Gebhard) was appointed at Mainz in September 1054 by the Emperor Henry III, who had met there with representatives from Rome, including the Subdeacon Hildebrand, following the death of Pope Leo IX. Victor was known to be a promoter of church reform.^[27] He immediately appointed two papal vicars for France, Archbishop Raimbaud of Arles and Archbishop Pontius of Aix. The subdeacon Hildebrand, was sent to Lyon, where he held a council there in 1055, to deal with simoniacal bishops.^[28] In 1076, as Gregory VII, he deposed Archbishop Humbert (1063–76) for simony.^[8]

Primacy of Lyon confirmed

Archbishop Gebuin (Jubinus), who succeeded Humbert, was the confidant of Gregory VII and contributed to the reform of the Church. The papal legate, Hugues de Die, presided at the two councils of Lyon in 1080 and 1082, at which Manasses of Reims, Fulk of Anjou, and the monks of Marmoutiers were excommunicated. Archbishop Achard of Arles was deposed.^[29][8]

It was during the episcopate of Gebuin, and at his request, that Pope Gregory VII, in the Bull "Antiquorum Sanctorum Patrum" of 20 April 1079,^[30] confirmed.^[31] The primacy of the Church of Lyon over the Provinces of Rouen, Tours, and Sens,^[32]

In 1112, Archbishop Jauceran (1107–1118), having decided to hold a council at Anse, sent out summonses to attend to all the bishops of the ecclesiastical provinces of Sens, Rouen, and Tours, including the archbishop of Sens and all his suffragan bishops, including Ivo of Chartres.^[33] Archbishop Daimbertus of Sens immediately held a provincial synod, and the bishops collectively sent a tart and lengthy synodal letter to Archbishop Jauceran, protesting the tone and content of his letter of summons, and his application of the relevant documents.^[34] They were happy, they said, to accept his invitation, but not on the terms stated. It was unheard of that a bishop be summoned outside of his own province, except under papal orders.^[35] Archbishop Jauceran replied in a letter directed to Archbishop Daimbertus, relying on contentious rhetoric and fallacious reasoning.^[36] He also procured from Pope Paschal II a bull, "Caritatis bonum est," dated 14 March 1116, confirming the privileges of the archbishops of Lyon, including the primacy over the ecclesiastical provinces of Rouen, Tours and Sens.^[37]

The dignity was confirmed by Callistus II, despite the letter written to him in 1126 by Louis VI in favour of the church of Sens. As far as it regarded the Province of Rouen this letter was later suppressed by a decree of the king's council in 1702, at the request of Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen.^[38]

Metropolitan

The archbishop of Lyon is the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province which includes:

• Annecy
• Belley-Ars
• Archdiocese of Chambéry
• Grenoble-Vienne
• Saint-Étienne
• Valence (-Die-Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux)
• Viviers^[39]

Primate

As Primate of the Gauls, the archbishop of Lyon has precedence over:

• Ecclesiastical Province of Rouen
• Eccleasiastical Province of Tours
• Sens^[8] (former province)^[40]

Cathedral and Chapter

The cathedral of the diocese of Lyon was originally dedicated to S. Stephen, but the dedication to S. John the Baptist was added later.^[41] The cathedral was administered by a corporation called the Chapter, which consisted of eight dignities and thirty-two canon-counts. The dignities were: the Dean, the Archdeacon, the Precentor, the Cantor, the Chamberlain, tÉhe Aedituus, the Provost, and the Chorus master.^[42] Each candidate for an canonry had to demonstrate nobility on both sides of his family for at least four generations.^[43]

Hugh of Die (1081–1106),^[44] the successor of Saint Gebuin, friend of Saint Anselm, and for a while legate of Gregory VII in France and Burgundy, had differences later on with Victor III, who excommunicated him for a time. Pope Paschal II came to Lyon, and on 29 January 1107 (1106, Roman Style), consecrated the church of Ainay Abbey,^[45] and dedicated one of its altars in honour of the Immaculate Conception. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception was solemnized at Lyon about 1128, perhaps at the instance of Saint Anselm of Canterbury, and Saint Bernard wrote to the canons of Lyon to complain that they should not have instituted a feast without consulting the pope.^[8]

Sovereignty

Lyon of the 12th century had a glorious place in the history of Catholic liturgy and even of dogma,^[specify] but the 12th century was also marked by the heresy of Peter Waldo^[46] and the Waldenses, the Poor Men of Lyon, who were opposed by Archbishop John of Canterbury (Jean des Belles-Mains) (1181–1193).^[47]

In 1157 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa confirmed the sovereignty of the Archbishops over the city of Lyon, and the regalian rights over the extent of diocesan territory on the left bank of the Saône; they were also granted general jurisdiction over imperial territories, whether inside the diocese of Lyon or outside it; the archbishop was also named exarch of the royal palace in Burgundy and first dignitary in the imperial council.^[48] Thenceforth there was a lively contest between them and the counts. An arbitration effected by the pope in 1167 had no result, but by the treaty of 1173, Guy, Count of Forez, ceded to the canons of the primatial church of St. John his title of count of Lyon and his temporal authority.^[8]

Then came the growth of the Commune, more belated in Lyon than in many other cities, but in 1193 the archbishop had to make some concession to the citizens. The 13th century was a period of conflict. Three times, in 1207, 1269, and 1290, grave troubles broke out between the partisans of the archbishop who dwelt in the château of Pierre Seize, those of the count-canons who lived in a separate quarter near the cathedral, and partisans of the townsfolk. Gregory X attempted without success to restore peace by two Acts, 2 April 1273 and 11 November 1274. The kings of France were always inclined to side with the commune; after the siege of Lyon by Louis X (1310), the treaty of 10 April 1312 definitively attached Lyon to the Kingdom of France, but until the beginning of the 15th century the Church of Lyon was allowed to coin its own money.^[8]

If the 13th century had imperiled the political sovereignty of the archbishops, it had on the other hand made Lyon a kind of refuge from an unfriendly Rome for the papal court. The future Innocent V was Archbishop of Lyon from 1272 to 1273. Innocent IV and Gregory X, a former canon of Lyon, sought refuge at Lyon from the Hohenstaufen, and held there two general councils of Lyon. Local tradition relates that it was on seeing the red hat of the canons of Lyon that the courtiers of Innocent IV conceived the idea of obtaining from the Council of Lyon its decree that the cardinals should henceforth wear red hats. The sojourn of Innocent IV at Lyon was marked by numerous works of public utility, to which the pope gave vigorous encouragement. He granted indulgences to the faithful who should assist in the construction of the bridge over the Rhône, replacing that destroyed about 1190 by the passage of the troops of Richard Cœur de Lion on their way to the Crusade. The building of the churches of St. John and St. Justus was pushed forward with activity; he sent delegates even to England to solicit alms for this purpose and he consecrated the high altar in both churches.^[8]

At Lyon were crowned Clement V (1305) and Pope John XXII (1310); at Lyon in 1449 the antipope Felix V renounced the tiara; there, too, was held in 1512, without any definite conclusion, the last session of the schismatical Council of Pisa against Julius II.^[8]

In 1516, following the papal loss of the Battle of Marignano, Pope Leo X signed a concordat with King Francis I of France, removing the rights of all French entities which held the right to elect to a benefice, including bishoprics, canonicates, and abbeys, and granting the kings of France the right to nominate candidates to all these benefices, provided they be suitable persons, and subject to confirmation of the nomination by the pope. This removed the right of cathedral chapters to elect their bishop, or even to request the pope to name a bishop. The Concordat of Bologna was strongly protested by the University of Paris and by the Parliament of Paris.^[49]

Counter-reformation

Jean Charlier de Gerson, the former Chancellor of the University of Paris and leading theologian of the Council of Constance, whose old age was spent at Lyon in the abbey of St. Paul, where he instructed poor children, died there in 1429.^[50]

M. Guigue has catalogued the eleven "hermitages" (eight of them for men and three for women) which were distinctive of the ascetical life of Christian Lyon in the Middle Ages; these were cells in which persons shut themselves up for life after four years of trial. The system of hermitages along the lines described by Grimalaius and Olbredus in the 9th century flourished especially from the 11th to the 13th century, and disappeared completely in the 16th. These hermitages were the private property of a neighbouring church or monastery, which installed therein for life a male or female recluse. The general almshouse of Lyon, or charity hospital, was founded in 1532 after the great famine of 1531; it was under the supervision of eight administrators chosen from among the more important citizens.^[8]

On 12 April 1549, Pope Paul III secularized the monastery of l'Ile Barbe, converting it into a collegiate church, with a Chapter headed by a Dean, who assumed the title of abbot, a Provost (the former Prior), and an Archdeacon (the former Cellerier).^[51]

In 1560 the Calvinists took Lyon by surprise, but they were driven out by Antoine d'Albon, Abbot of Savigny and later Archbishop of Lyon.^[52] The Protestants again took Lyon in 1562; they were driven out by the Maréchal de Vieuville. At the command of Baron des Adrets they committed numerous acts of violence in the region of Montbrison. It was at Lyon that Henry IV of France, the converted Calvinist king, married Marie de' Medici (9 December 1600).^[8]

Saint Francis de Sales died at Lyon on 28 December 1622. The Curé Colombet de St. Amour was celebrated at St. Etienne in the 17th century for the generosity with which he founded the Hôtel-Dieu (the charity hospital) and free schools, and also fed the workmen during the famine of 1693.^[8]

Jubilees at Lyon

The institution of the jubilee of Saint Nizier dates beyond a doubt to the stay of Innocent IV at Lyon. This jubilee, which had all the privileges of the jubilees of Rome, was celebrated each time that Low Thursday, the feast of Saint Nizier, coincided with 2 April, i.e. whenever the feast of Easter itself was on the earliest day allowed by the paschal cycle, namely 22 March. In 1818, when this coincidence occurred, the feast of Saint Nizier was not celebrated. But the cathedral of St. John also enjoys a great jubilee each time that the feast of Saint John the Baptist coincides with Corpus Christi, that is, whenever the feast of Corpus Christi falls on 24 June. It is certain that in 1451 the coincidence of these two feasts was celebrated with special splendour by the population of Lyon, then emerging from the troubles of the Hundred Years' War, but there is no document to prove that the jubilee indulgence existed at that date. However, Lyonnese tradition places the first great jubilee in 1451; subsequent jubilees took place in 1546, 1666, 1734 and 1886.^[8]

Controversy over liturgy and liturgical books

"Among the Churches of France", wrote Saint Bernard ^{[which?] [citation needed]} to the canons of Lyon, "that of Lyon has hitherto had ascendancy over all the others, as much for the dignity of its see as for its praiseworthy institutions. It is especially in the Divine Office that this judicious Church has never readily acquiesced in unexpected and sudden novelties, and has never submitted to be tarnished by innovations which are becoming only to youth."^[8]

In the 18th century Archbishop Antoine de Montazet (1758–1788 ), contrary to the Bull of Pius V on the breviary, changed the text of the breviary and the missal, from which there resulted a century of conflict for the Church of Lyon.^[53] The efforts of Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Bonald to suppress the innovations of Montazet provoked resistance on the part of the canons, who feared an attempt against the traditional Lyonnese ceremonies. This culminated in 1861 in a protest on the part of the clergy and the laity, as much with regard to the civil power as to the Vatican. Finally, on 4 February 1864, at a reception of the parish priests of Lyon, Pius IX declared his displeasure at this agitation and assured them that nothing should be changed in the ancient Lyonnese ceremonies; by a Brief of 17 March 1864, he ordered the progressive introduction of the Roman breviary and missal in the diocese. The primatial church of Lyon adopted them for public services on 8 December 1869. One of the rites of the ancient Gallican liturgy, retained by the Church of Lyon, is the blessing of the people by the bishop at the moment of Communion.^[8]

The French Revolution

One of the first acts of the French Revolution was the abolition of feudalism and its institutions, including estates, provinces, duchies, baillies, and other obsolete organs of government. The National Constituent Assembly ordered their replacement by political subdivisions called "departments", to be characterized by a single administrative city in the center of a compact area. The decree was passed on 22 December 1789, the boundaries fixed on 26 February 1790, with the institution to be effective on 4 March 1790.^[54] A metropolitanate called "Metropole du Sud-est" was established, which consisted of nine departments.^[55] Lyon was named the departmental capital of Rhône et Loire. The National Constituent Assembly then, on 6 February 1790, instructed its ecclesiastical committee to prepare a plan for the reorganization of the clergy. At the end of May, its work was presented as a draft Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which, after vigorous debate, was approved on 12 July 1790. There was to be one diocese in each department,^[56] requiring the suppression of approximately fifty dioceses,^[57] especially along the Rhône River.^[58] Both the establishment and the suppression of dioceses was a canonical matter, and was reserved to the pope, not to the National Constituent Assembly.

19th century changes

The Concordat of 1801, agreed between Pope Pius VII and First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, assigned as the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Lyon the Departments of the Rhône and Loire and the Ain, and as suffragans the Dioceses of Mende, Grenoble, and Chambéry. The Archdiocese of Lyon was authorized by Letters Apostolic of 29 November 1801, to unite with its title the titles of the suppressed metropolitan Sees of Vienne and Embrun.^[8] In addition, the dioceses of Belley and Mâcon, were suppressed on November 29, 1801 with all of Belley's and some of Mâcon's territory added to the Archdiocese of Lyon. The Diocese of Belley was restored on October 6, 1822, while the Archdiocese of Lyon's name was changed to Lyon-Vienne,^[39] with the title of Embrun passing to the Archbishop of Aix, and in 2008 from Aix to the Bishop of Gap.

20th century

A new diocese of Saint-Étienne was erected on December 26, 1970, on territory on the left (west) bank of the Rhone, taken from the Archdiocese's territory.^[59] The name of the archdiocese's was simplified to "Lyon" on December 15, 2006.^[39] The title of Vienne was assigned instead to Lyon's suffragan, the diocese of Grenoble.

Saints

The Diocese of Lyon honours as a saints Saint Epipodius and his companion Saint Alexander, probably martyrs under Marcus Aurelius; the priest Peregrine of Auxerre (3rd century) is also honoured.

At the end of the empire and during the Merovingian period several saints are counted among the Bishops of Lyon: Saint Justus (374-381) who died in a monastery in the Thebaid (Egypt) and was renowned for the orthodoxy of his doctrine in the struggle against Arianism; the church of the Maccabees, where his remains were brought, was a place of pilgrimage under the name of the church of Saint Justus, as early as the 5th century. Saint Alpinus and Saint Martin (disciple of Saint Martin of Tours; end of 4th century); Saint Antiochus (400–410); Saint Elpidius (410–422); Saint Sicarius (422–33).

Saint Baldonor (Galmier), a native of Aveizieux, at first a locksmith, whose piety was remarked by the bishop, Saint Viventiolus: he became a cleric at the Abbey of St. Justus, then subdeacon, and died about 760; the thermal resort of "Aquæ Segestæ", in whose church Viventiolus met him, has taken the name of Saint Galmier; Saint Viator (d. about 390), who followed the Bishop Saint Justus to the Thebaid; Saints Romanus and Lupicinus (5th century), natives of the Diocese of Lyon, who lived as solitaries within the present territory of the Diocese of Saint-Claude; Saint Consortia,^[60] d. about 578, who, according to a legend criticized by Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont^{[citation needed]}, was a daughter of Saint Eucherius; Saint Rambert, soldier and martyr in the 7th century, patron of the town of the same name. As soon as Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, had been proclaimed Blessed (1173), his cult was instituted at Lyon.^[61][8]

Blessed Jean Pierre Néel, born in 1832 at Ste. Catherine sur Rivière, was martyred at Kay-Tcheou, China, in 1862.^[62]

Bishops and Archbishops of Lyon

Bishops of Lyon

• Pothinus (attested 177)^[63]
• Irenaeus^[64]
• Zacharias (195 – after 202)^[65]
• Helios of Lyon
• Faustinus (3rd quarter of the 3rd century)^[66]
• Lucius Verus
• Julius
• Ptolémaeus
• Vocius (attested 314)^[67]
• Maximus (Maxime)
• Tétradius (Tetrade)
• Verissimus fl. 343
• Justus of Lyon (374–381)^[68]
• Alpinus of Lyon (c. 390–397)^[69]
• Martin (c. 397–400)^[70]
• Antiochus of Lyon (400–410)^[71]
• Elpidius of Lyon (410–422)
• Sicarius (422–433)
• Eucherius of Lyon (c. 433–450)^[72]
• Patiens of Lyon (456–498)^[73]
• Lupicinus of Lyon (491–494)
• Rusticus (494–501)^[74]
• Stephanus (501 – Before 515)^[75]
• Viventiolus (515–523)^[76]

Archbishops of Lyon

• Lupus (535–542)^[77]
• Licontius (Léonce)
• Sardot or Sacerdos (549–552)
• Nicetius or Nizier (552–73)^[78]
• Priscus of Lyon (573–588)^[79]
• Ætherius (588–603)^[80]
• Aredius (603–615)
• Viventius of Lyon
• Annemund or Chamond (c. 650)^[81]
• Genesius or Genes (660–679 or 680)^[82]
• Lambertus (c. 680–690)^[83]
• Leidrad (798–814)
  • Agobard, Chorbishop (808?–814)^[84]
• Agobard (814–834, 837–840)^[85]
  • Amalarius of Metz (834–837) administrator^[8]
• Amulo, (840-852)
• Remigius (852–875)
• Aurelianus (875–895)
• Alwala of Montdor (895–905)
• Bernardus (906–907)
• Austerius (906–c. 919)
• Remi (c. 916–922)^[86]
• Anscheric (before 926–927)^[87]
• Guy (928–949)^[88]
• Burchard II of Lyon (?–?)^[89]
• Amblard (c. 957–978)^[90]
• Burchard III of Lyon (978–1032)^[91]
• Odolric (1041-1046)^[92]
• Halinard (1046–1052)^[93]
• Geoffroy de Vergy (1054–1064)^[94]
• Humbert (1064–1076)^[95]

Archbishops of Lyon and Primates of the Gauls

From 1077 to 1389

• 1077–1082 Gebuin^[96][8]
• 1081–1106 Hugh of Die^[97]
• 1107–1118 Jauceran (Gaucheran)^[98]
• 1118–1128 Humbaud^[99]
• 1128–1129 Renaud of Semur^[100]
• 1131–1139 Peter^[101]
• 1139–1142 Faucon de Bothéon^[102]
• 1142–1148 Amadeus (Amé)^[103]
• 1148–1153 Humbertus de Bagé^[104]
• 1153–1163 Hercules de Montboissier^[105]
• 1163–1164 Dreux (Drogon)^[106]
• 1164–1180 Guichard of Pontigny^[107]
• 1182–1193 Jean de Belles-mains (Bellème, Belmeis)^[108]
• 1193–1226 Renaud de Forez^[109]
• 1227–1234 Robert of Auvergne^[110]
• 1236     Radulfus de Pinis^[111]
• 1237–1245 Aimeric Guerry^[112]
• 1246–1267 Philippe de Savoy Administrator^[113]
• 1267-1272 Gui de Mello^[114]
• 1272–1273 Pierre de Tarentaise, O.P.^[115]
• 1273–1283 Ademar de Roussillon, O.S.B.^[116]
• 1289–1294 Bérard de Got^[117]

1290–1295 Louis of Anjou, O.F.M.^[118]

• 1295–1301 Henri de Villars^[119]
• 1301–1308 Louis de Villars^[120]
• 1308–1332 Peter of Savoy
• 1332–1340 Guillaume de Sure^[121]
• 1340–1342 Guy de Bologne^[122]
• 1342–1354 Henri II de Villars^[123]
• 1356–1358 Raymond Saquet
• 1358–1365 Guillaume II de Thurey
• 1365–1375 Charles d'Alençon
• 1375–1389 Jean II de Talaru

From 1389 to 1799

• 1389–1415 Philippe de Thurey Avignon Obedience^[124]
• 1417–1444 Amédée de Talaru^[125]
• 1444–1446 Geoffroy II de Versailles
• 1447–1488 Charles II of Bourbon
• 1488–1499 Hugues II de Talaru
• 1499–1500 André d'Espinay (cardinal)
• 1501–1536 François de Rohan^[126]
• 1537–1539 John, Cardinal of Lorraine^[127]
• 1539–1551 Ippolito II d'Este Administrator^[128]
• 1551–1562 Cardinal François de Tournon^[129]
• 1562–1564 Ippolito II d'Este Administrator^[130]
• 1564–1573 Antoine d'Albon^[131]
• 1573–1599 Pierre d'Epinac^[132]
• 1612–1626 Denis-Simon de Marquemont^[133]
• 1626–1628 Charles Miron^[134]
• 1628–1653 Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu^[135]
• 1653–1693 Camille de Neufville de Villeroy^[136]
• 1714–1731 François-Paul de Neufville de Villeroy^[137]
• 1732–1739 Charles-François de Châteauneuf de Rochebonne^[138]
• 1740–1758 Pierre Guérin de Tencin^[139]
• 1758–1788 Antoine de Malvin de Montazet^[140]
• 1788–1799 Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf^[141]

Constitutional bishops

1791–1794 Antoine-Adrien Lamourette (1791–1794) constitutional bishop^[142]

1798-1801 Claude-François-Marie Primat^[143]

Primates of Gauls and Archbishop of Lyon-Vienne

• (Cardinal) Joseph Fesch (29 July 1802 – 13 May 1839)^[144]

(Cardinal) Joachim-Jean d'Isoard (1839)^[145]

• (Cardinal) Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald (1839 –1870)^[146]
• Jacques-Marie Ginoulhiac (1870–1875)^[147]
• (Cardinal) Louis-Marie Caverot (20 April 1876 – 23 January 1887)
• (Cardinal) Joseph-Alfred Foulon (23 March 1887 – 23 January 1893)
• (Cardinal) Pierre-Hector Coullie (14 June 1893 – 11 September 1912)
• (Cardinal) Hector Sévin (2 December 1912 – 4 May 1916)
• (Cardinal) Louis-Joseph Maurin (1 December 1916 – 16 November 1936)
• (Cardinal) Pierre-Marie Gerlier (30 July 1937 – 17 January 1965)
• (Cardinal) Jean-Marie Villot (17 January 1965 – 7 April 1967)
• (Cardinal) Alexandre Renard (28 May 1967 – 29 October 1981)
• (Cardinal) Albert Decourtray (29 October 1981 – 16 September 1994)
• (Cardinal) Jean Marie Balland (27 May 1995 – 1 March 1998)
• (Cardinal) Louis-Marie Billé (10 July 1998 – 12 March 2002)
• (Cardinal) Philippe Barbarin (16 July 2002 – 6 March 2020)^[148]
• Olivier de Germay (20 December 2020 – present)

See also

• Catholic Church in France
• History of Lyon

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3. The letter is considered by Ernest Renan as the baptismal certificate of Christianity in France.
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6. Édouard Montet, La légende d'Irénée et l'introduction du christianisme à Lyon, (in French), Geneva: Impr. Ch. Schuchardt, 1880.
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9. Duchesne II (1900), p. 156.
10. In the time of Bishop Patiens and the priest Constans (d. 488) the school of Lyon was well-known; Sidonius Apollinaris was educated there.
11. Duchesne II (1900), p. 156.
12. Canon I: "Primum, ut unusquisque metropolitanus in prouincia sua cum conprouincialibus suis singulis annis synodale debeat oportuno tempore habere concilium: C. De Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 — A. 695 (in Latin), (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 114.
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15. "De Insolentia Judaeorum," in: Dionysius Duvallius, Agobardi Opera... Accesserunt Binae epistolae Leidradi, non antea excusae, (in Latin) (1605), pp. 56-137.
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17. Charles Joseph Hefele, tr. H. Leclercq, Histoire des conciles, (in French), Vol. IV, part 1 (Paris: Letouzey 1911), pp. 89-91.
18. Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 4 (C. Scribner's sons, 1908), pp. 733-734.
19. Florus of Lyon, "Adversus Amalarium,", in J.-P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus (in Latin), Vol. 119 (Paris 1852), cols. 74–76.
20. Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, "Florus von Lyon als Kirchenpolitiker und Publizist: Studien zur Persönlichkeit eines karolingischen “Intellektuellen” am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung mit Amalarius (835–838) und des Prädestinationsstreits (851–855)," (in German), in: Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter Vol. 8 (Stuttgart 1999), pp. 54-61.
21. Hastings Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 2. English universities. Student life, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), pp. 723-724.
22. Charles Joseph Hefele, tr. Delarc, Histoire des Conciles: d'aprés les documents originaux, (in French), Volume 5 (Paris: Le Clere, 1870), pp. 372-376.
23. Hefele V, pp. 399-403.
24. Georges Goyau, "Lyons, archdiocese," in: The Catholic Encyclopedia: Laprade-Mass, Volume IX (New York: Appleton, 1910), pp. 472-476, at p. 473, column 1. (The transcription at WP is defective).
25. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, p. 79. Fisquet, p. 163.
26. Fisquet, p. 164.
27. J.N.D Kelly and M.J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, second edition (OUP 2010), pp. 148-149. Victor did not finally accept the papacy until March 1055, after some hard negotiation. He was enthroned in Rome on 13 April 1055.
28. Hefele, Histoire des Conciles (tr. Leclercq) Vol. 4, part 2 (Paris: Letouzey 1911, p. 1120.
29. Carl Joseph Hefele; tr. Delarc, Histoire des Conciles, (in French), Volume 6 (Paris: Le Clere et Cie, 1871), p. 609.
30. Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurinensis editio, (in Latin), (Turin: Franco, Fory & Dalmazzo, 1858), pp. 104-105. French translation of entire document in Fisquet, pp. 184-186.
31. "Quapropter, quia, dileclissime in Chrislo frater Gebuine, postulasti a nobis, quatenus dignitatem ab antecessoribns nostris concessam Ecclesiae, cui Deo auctore praeesse dignosceris, conrirmaremus, et quaeque sua ab infestatione hostili Apostolicae Sedis defensione tueremur."
32. Correspondence of Gebuin and others on the subject: Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France Vol. 14, pp. 667-674.
33. Fisquet, pp. 217-218.
34. Monumenta Germaniae historica. Libelli de lite, (in Latin), Volume 2 (Hannover: Hahn, 1892), pp. 649-654.
35. "Ad quod venire minime contempnimus, sed terminos, quos posuerunt patres nostri, terminos antiquos transgredi formidamus. Nusquam enimi reverenda patrum sanxit auctoritas , nusquam hoc servare consuevit antiquitas, ut primae sedis episcopus episcopos extra provinciam propriam positos invitaret ad concilium, nisi hoc aut apostolica sedes imperaret, aut una de provincialibus ecclesiis pro causis, quas intra provinciam terminare non poterat, primae sedis audientiam appellaret."
36. Monumenta Germaniae historica. Libelli de lite, Volume 2, pp. 654-657: "Siquidem cum prima Lugdunensis provincia Lugdunensis provincia sit, nichilominus secunda et tercia Lugdunensis provincia est. Cum ergo primae sedis Lugdunensis praesul pro suis aut illorum necessitatibus secundae vel terciae provinciae praesules vocat, non ad aliam provinciam trahit, sed rationabili et iusto ordine servato inferiora membra ad caput revocat, ut ei vel de adversitate condoleant vel dex prosperitate congaudeant."
37. Fisquet, p. 218. J.-P Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus (in Latin), Vol. 163 (Paris 1855), p. 399: "... Confirmamus primatum super quasttuorum Galliae primatiis, videlicet Lugdunensi, Rotomagensi, Turonensi, et super Senonensi." The words indicate that "primatus" is a synonym for "matropolitanus."
38. Fisquet, p. 192.
39. "Archdiocese of Lyon". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
40. "Archdiocese of Sens". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
41. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, p. 3.
42. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 268, note 1. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, p. 3.
43. Pouillé général contenant les bénéfices de l'archevêché de Lyon (Paris: Gervais Alliot 1648), p. 1.
44. Jules Chevalier, Recherches historiques sur Hugues, évêque de Die, légat du pape saint Grégoire VII, Bourron, 1880. G. Bollenot, Un légat pontifical au XIème siècle, Hugues, évêque de Die (1073-1082), primat des Gaules (l082-1106), (in French) Université de Lyon, Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques, Lyon, [1974?]. Thesis. C. Petit-Dutaillis, The Feudal Monarchy in France and England, London: Routledge, 1936 [reprint 2013], p. 91.
45. Philippus Jaffé, Regesta pontificum Romanorum, (in Latin), second edition (Leipzig: Veit 1885), p. 728.
46. Carol Lansing, Edward D. English (edd.), A Companion to the Medieval World (Chichester UK: John Wiley 2012), p. 286.
47. Christine Caldwell Ames, Medieval Heresies (Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 156.
48. Fisquet, p. 238. Guigue (1919), Les Bulles d'or de Frédéric Barberousse pour les archevêques de Lyon, 1152-1184, pp. 58-60.
49. Jules Thomas, Le Concordat de 1516: Deuxième partie. Les documents concordataires, (in French and Latin), (Paris: A. Picard, 1910), pp. 60–65. The right had to be exercised by the king within six months of the occurrence of the vacancy of a benefice.
50. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, p. 176. Abbey of St.-Paul, O.S.B.: Fisquet, p. 706.
51. Fisquet, p. 389.
52. Fisquet, p. 5.
53. Louis Morel de Voleine, Recherches historiques sur la liturgie lyonnaise, (in French), (Lyon: imprimerie d'Aimé Vingtrinier 1856), pp. 6-10. Jean Adrien de Conny Liturgie Lyonnaise, (in French) (Lyon: Girard et Josserand, 1859), esp. pp. 22-32. Joseph-Antoine Vincent, Liturgie lyonnaise: résumé analytique des débats, (in French) (Lyon: Vingtrinier, 1864), p. 7.
54. Pisani, pp. 10-11. Departement de Puy-de-Dôme, "Création du département"; retrieved 15 July 2024.
55. Pisani, p. 277.
56. "Civil Constitution," Title I, "Article 1. Chaque département formera un seul diocèse, et chaque diocèse aura la même étendue et les mêmes limites que le département."
57. Ludovic Sciout, Histoire de la constitution civile du clergé (1790-1801): L'église et l'Assemblée constituante, (in French and Latin) ., Vol. 1 (Paris: Firmin Didot 1872), p. 182: Art. 2 "...Tous les autres évêchés existant dans les quatre-vingt-trois départements du royaume, et qui ne sont pas nommément compris au présent article, sont et demeurent supprimés."
58. Pisani, p. 11.
59. Pope Paul VI, "Signa Temporum," 26 December 1970, in: Acta Apostolicae Sedis Vol. 63 (1971), pp. 724-726.
60. Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar, A Dictionary of Saintly Women, Volume 1 (London: Bell, 1904), pp. 202-204.
61. Raymonde Foreville, "Le culte de saint Thomas Becket en France. Bilan de recherches," (in French), in: Thomas Becket: actes du colloque international de Sédières, 19 - 25.8.1973, (Paris: Editions Beauchesne, 1975), pp. 163-189, esp. 173; Charles Duggan, "Bishop John and Archdeacon Richard of Poitiers. Their Roles in the Becket Dispute and its Aftermath," pp. 79-80.
62. Konstantin Kempf, The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times (New York: Benzinger brothers, 1916), p. 321.
63. Pothinus died in prison, and is listed as a martyr in the episcopal lists of Lyon. He shares the same day as the martyrs of Lyon. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 4-5. Duchesne II (1900), pp. 160-161.
64. Irenaeus is discussed by Eusebius, History of the Church Book i, chapter 5. He is first called a martyr by Gregory of Tours. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, 5-12.
65. Zacharias was a priest of Irenaeus of Lyon, and buried his leader. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, 12-13.
66. Faustinus wrote a letter on behalf of the other bishops of Gaul to Pope Stephen I (254–257). Duchesne, p. 44.
67. Bishop Vosius attended the Council of Arles, on 1 August 314. C. Munier, Concilia Galliae, A. 314 — A. 506, (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 15: "Vosius episcopus, Petulinus exurcista de ciuitate Lugdunensium."
68. The Iustus who attended the Council of Valence on 12 July 374 may have been archbishop of Lyon. Bishop Justus attended the council of Aquileia in 381, and then retired to Egypt to become a hermit. Duchesne, p. 365.
69. Alpinus: Fisquet, p. 51.
70. Martin was a disciple of St. Martin of Tours; end of 4th century. He had been abbot of the monastery of L'Ile Barbe on the Saône, just north of Lyon. He died on 15 October, around the year 410. Fisquet, pp. 51-52.
71. Antiochus was sent by the Lyonnais to Egypt to persuade Bishop Justus to return to Lyon; he brought back the bishop's remains. Fisquet, p. 52.
72. Bishop Eucherius attended the Council of Orange on 8 November 441. Duchesne, p. 367: "Ex provincia Lugdunensi prima civit Lugdunins Eucherius episcopus, Aper presbyter, Veranus diaconus."
73. Archbishop Patiens successfully combated a famine and Arianism. He attended a council in 474 or 475, and obtained a retraction of heresy of the priest Lucidus. Duchesne, p. 370. C. Munier, Concilia Galliae, A. 314 — A. 506, (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 159. Sidonius Apollinaris praised him in a poem.
74. Rusticus: Fisquet, pp. 63-64.
75. With Avitus of Vienne, Stephanus convoked a council at Lyon for the conversion of the Arians. Fisquet, pp. 64-68.
76. Archbishop Viventiolus presided with Archbishop Avitus of Vienne at the Council of Epaone in 517. C. De Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 — A. 695, (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 35: "Viuentiolus episcopus ecclesiae Lugduninsis cum prouincialibus meis constitutiones nostras relegi et subscripsi."
77. Lupus had been a monk. He was probably the first archbishop; in 538 the Council of Orléans spoke in its first canon about the title of "metropolitanus". Lupus died on 22 September 542. Fisquet, p. 73.
78. Nicetius was the nephew of Archbishop Sacerdos. He died on 2 April 573. Fisquet, pp. 76-80.
79. Archbishop Priscus presided at the Council of Mâcon, in 581 or 583. De Clercq, p. 229: "Priscus Lugdunensis aeclesiae episcopus nostram suscripsi."
80. Aetherius was a correspondent of St. Gregory the Great and who perhaps consecrated St. Augustine, the Apostle of England
81. Chamond was a friend of St. Wilfrid, godfather of Clotaire III, put to death by Ebroin together with his brother. Chamond was patron of the town of Saint-Chamond, Loire.
82. , Benedictine Abbot of Fontenelle, grand almoner and minister of Queen Bathilde
83. , also Abbot of Fontenelle
84. Agobard came to Lyon from Spain in 792. Fisquet, p. 102.
85. Fisquet, pp. 101-122.
86. Archbishop subscribed the last will and testament of Bishop Herve of Autun on 22 April 919. Fisquet, p. 147.
87. Archbishop Anscheric died on 15 December 927. Fisquet, pp. 147-148.
88. Archbishop Guy died on 20 September 949. Fisquet, pp. 148-150.
89. Previté-Orton 1912, pp. 10–11. sfn error: no target: CITEREFPrevité-Orton1912 (help)
90. Archbishop Amblardus died on 8 May 978. His will was probated on 9 August 978. Fisquet, pp. 155-157.
91. Burchard was the son of Conrad the Peaceable, King of Burgundy. A document of 984 states that it was signed in the 6th year of Archbishop Burchard. Archbishop Burchard consecrated Bruno Bishop of Langres in 981. In 1006, he subscribed the document by which Pope John XVIII established the diocese of Bamberg. He died 22 June 1032. Pope John XIX, who died on 20 October 1032, wanted to make Odilon of Cluny his successor. Fisquet, pp. 157-169.
92. Fisquet, pp. 169-170.
93. Archbishop Halinard died in Rome on 29 July 1052, poisoned. Fisquet, pp. 171-175. HALINARD, Erzbischof von Lyon
94. Fisquet, pp. 176-177.
95. Fisquet, pp. 177-179. Jean Beyssac, Notes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Eglise de Lyon: Humbert, prévot et archevêque (1032-1077), (in French), Vitte, 1912.
96. Gebuin was the son of Hugues III, Comte de Dijon. In September 1077, the papal legate, Bishop Hugues of Die, held a council at Autun, at which the clergy and people of Lyon demanded the appointment of an archbishop, naming Gebuin as their choice. He was consecrated on 17 September 1077. Archbishop Gebuin died on 17 April 1082. Fisquet, pp. 179-192.
97. Hugues de Die: Fisquet, pp. 193-213.
98. Jauceran: Fisquet, pp. 213-218.
99. Humbaud: Fisquet, pp. 218-220.
100. Renaud: Fisquet, pp. 220-224.
101. Pierre: Fisquet, pp. 224-227.
102. Faucon (Foulque): Fisquet, pp. 227-231.
103. Amadeus: Fisquet, pp. 231-232.
104. Humbert: Fisquet, pp. 232-235.
105. Montboissier: Fisquet, pp. 235-241.
106. The Chapter of Lyon wrote a letter to King Louis VII, explaining that there was a disputed election; The majority of the electors chose Dreux, the archdeacon of Lyon, and a minority of six elected Guichard, the abbot of Pontigny. Pope Alexander III is said to have ratified Dreux' election, but Louis VII prevailed upon the pope to void the election of Dreux. The name of Dreux does not appear in any of the catalogues of bishops of Lyon. Sainte-Marthe (Sammarthanus) suggested that it was because he was never consecrated. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 125-126. Fisquet, pp. 241-243.
107. Guichard: Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 126-130. Fisquet, pp. 243-253.
108. Jean: Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 130-133. Fisquet, pp. 253-262.
109. Renaud: Fisquet, pp. 262-269. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316.
110. Robert had previously been Bishop of Clermont. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316.
111. Radulfus was approved by Pope Gregory IX on 15 January 1236, but died on 5 March 1236. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 3.
112. Aimeric resigned. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316.
113. Philippe had been bishop-elect of Valence. He resigned, still bishop-elect in 1267. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 4.
114. Guy had previously been Bishop of Auxerre. Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with notes 5 and 6.
115. Pierre was promoted to be a cardinal and Suburbicarian bishop of Ostia. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 7.
116. Ademar: Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 8.
117. Beraldus de Gouth had been archdeacon of Montalden. He was promoted to be a cardinal and Suburbicarian bishop of Albano. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 10, 11.
118. Louis, the second son of Charles II d'Anjou, King of Naples, was named archbishop of Lyon at the age of 16. He was not consecrated, though, until 30 December 1296, when he was named archbishop of Toulouse.
119. Henri de Villars had been chamberlain of the Church of Lyon. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 12.
120. Louis de Villars had been archdeacon of Lyon: Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316, with note 13.
121. Guillaume had been archdeacon of Lyon, and was in diaconal orders. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 316.
122. Guy was a member of the important family of the counts of Auvergne and Boulogne. He had been archdeacon of Flanders, and was appointed archbishop of Lyon by Pope Benedict XII on 11 October 1340. He was named a cardinal by Pope Clement VI on 20 September 1342. As a Cardinal, Guy de Boulogne, served as a papal diplomat. He died in Ilerda on 25 November 1373. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 164-166. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, pp. 38 no. 2; 316.
123. Henri de Villars: Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 166-168. Eubel I, p. 316.
124. Philippe de Thurey was the nephew of Guillaume de Thurey, Archbishop of Lyon; and brother of Cardinal Pierre de Thurey, papal legate in Naples and then Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church. He was appointed by Pope Clement VII on 8 November 1389. He had been Cantor in the cathedral Chapter. He died on 28 September 1415. Eubel I, p. 316 with note 17. Fisquet, pp. 353-357.
125. Amadée was the confessor of Odo Colonna, elected Pope Martin V. Eubel I, p. 316.
126. Marc Antoine Péricaud, Notice sur François de Rohan, Archevêque de Lyon, etc. (in French), Lyon: A. Vingtrinier 1854.
127. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 230, with note 3.
128. Ippolito was the son of Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara, and Lucretia Borgia. King Francis I of France named Cardinal protector of the crown of France at the court of Pope Paul III. Ippolito was a personal friend and companion of Henri II, and lived at the French court for many years. He was a patron of scholars. He was never consecrated a bishop, and only became a priest in 1584. Fisquet, pp. 386-391. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 230, with notes 4 and 5..
129. , who negotiated several times between Francis I and Emperor Charles V, combated the Reformation and founded the Collège de Tournon, which the Jesuits later made one of the most celebrated educational establishments of the kingdom. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 230, with note 6.
130. D'Este's second appointment to Lyon was purely nominal. Lyon was in the hands of the Protestants, and the locals disliked Ippolito as a foreigner. He quickly arranged through the French court, therefore, an exchange of dioceses with Archbishop Antoine d'Albon of Arles. D'Este died in Rome on 5 December 1572. Fisquet, pp. 390-391.
131. Antoine d'Albon was an early editor of Rufinus, In LXXV Davidis Psalmos Commentarii (1570); and Ausonius. Fisquet, pp. 408-411. Joseph Hyacinthe Albanès, Gallia christiana novissima, (in Latin), Volume 3: Arles (Valence: Valentinoise, 1901), p. 915.
132. D'Epinac was an active leader of the League against Henry of Navarre (Henry IV). Fisquet, pp. 412-433. P. Richard, La Papauté et la Ligue française: Pierre d'Épinac, Archevêque de Lyon, 1573-1599, (in French) (Paris: Picard 1901). Claude Odon Reure, Pierre d'Epinac, archevêque de Lyon: d'après un livre nouveau, (in French) Lyon: Imp. Mougin-Rusand, Waltener, 1902. [offprint of Revue de Lyonnaise September 1901].
133. Marquemont: Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 191-192. Fisquet, pp. 437-443.
134. Miron: Fisquet, pp. 443-457.
135. (Sep 1628 – 23 Mar 1653) Du Plessis was the elder brother of Cardinal Armand de Richelieu, and had been offered the diocese of Luçon, which he declined in favor of joining the Carthusians. Fisquet, pp. 457-463.
136. Neufville: Antoine Péricaud, Notice sur Camille de Neuville, archevêque de Lyon sous Louis XIV, (in French) Lyon: imprimerie de J. M. Barret, 1829. Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, pp. 195-196.
137. (15 Aug 1714 – 6 Feb 1731)François-Paul de Neufville: Piolin, Gallia christiana IV, p. 197.
138. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 238 with note 2.
139. Tencin had been Archbishop of Embrun. He had been appointed a cardinal on 23 February 1739 by Pope Clement XII. He was nominated to the diocese of Lyon by King Louis XV on 17 September 1740, and approved by the new Pope Benedict XIV (Lambertini) on 11 November 1740. He died on 2 March 1758. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 238 with note 3.
140. (16 Mar 1758 – 2 May 1788) Montazet, a person of Jansenist tendencies, had been Bishop of Autun (1748–1758). He had published for his seminary six volumes of "Institutiones theologicæ" by the Oratorian Joseph Valla, known as "Théologie de Lyon"; the work was spread throughout Italy by Scipio Ricci until it was condemned by the Index in 1792. Montazet died in Paris at the abbey of S. Victor on 2 May 1788, at the age of 66. Fisquet, pp. 507-529. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, pp. 67 with note 3; 238 with note 4.
141. Marbeuf was nominated bishop of Autun by King Louis XV on 19 April 1767, and confirmed by Pope Clement XIII on 15 June 1767. He was nominated archbishop of Lyon by King Louis XVI on 12 May 1788, and confirmed by Pope Pius VI on 15 September 1788. Archbishop de Marbeuf died on 15 April 1799. Fisquet, pp. 529-535.. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, pp. 67 with note 5; 238 with note 5.
142. A bishop of Lyon of the schismatic French Constitutional Church, from 27 March 1791 to 11 January 1794, the date of his death on the scaffold. Pisani, pp. 277-284.
143. Primat was elected bishop on 15 April 1798 by the constitutional electors of the department of Rhône. On 19 February 1800, Primat took possession of the episcopal throne of the department of Rhône. Pierre-Marie Gonon, Bibliographie historique de la ville de Lyon, pendant la Révolution française, (in French), (Lyon: Marle, 1844), p. 480, no. 2585. On 9 October 1800, he announced his intention to hold a diocesan synod. Gonon, p. 486, no. 2616. Pisani, p. 281.
144. Fesch was styled Archbishop of Lyon-Vienne-Embrun until 1822. Fisquet, pp. 552-611. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 245.
145. Isoard was cardinal archbishop of Auch. He was nominated archbishop of Lyon by King Louis Philippe on 15 June 1839. He was never approved by the pope, since he died on 7 October 1839. Fisquet, pp. 621-622.
146. Bonald had been Bishop of Le Puy (1823–1839). He was nominated archbishop of Lyon by the French government on 11 December 1839, and approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 27 April 1840. He was named a cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI on 1 March 1841. He died on 25 February 1870, at the age of 82. Fisquet, pp. 622-690. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 77, 246.
147. Ginoulhiac, (2 March 1870 – 17 November 1875), was known for his Histoire du dogme catholique pendant les trois premiers siècles de l‛église et jusqu‛au concile de Nicée, (in French) Volume 1 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1852; Volume 2.
148. Winfield, Nicole (6 March 2020). "Pope lets French cardinal embroiled in abuse cover-up resign". Crux. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

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External links

• Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L'Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24. (in French)
• Official website (in French)