Roman Catholic Diocese of Séez
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The Diocese of Séez (Latin: Dioecesis Sagiensis; French: Diocèse de Séez) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Originally established in the 3rd century, the diocese encompasses the department of Orne in the region of Normandy. The episcopal see is the cathedral in Sées,[1] and the diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Rouen.
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Diocese of Séez Dioecesis Sagiensis Diocèse de Séez | |
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Rouen |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Rouen |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 6,103 km2 (2,356 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2022) 279,942 261,000 (93.2%) |
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| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 3rd Century |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Sées |
| Secular priests | 58 (Diocesan) 34 (Religious Orders) 25 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop elect | Bruno Feillet |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Dominique Lebrun |
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| Website | |
| orne.catholique.fr | |
In 2022, in the Diocese of Séez there was one priest for every 2,836 Catholics.
History
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Saint Ebrulf, a native of the Diocese of Bayeux, founded, after 560, several monasteries in the Diocese of Séez; one of them became the important Abbey of Saint-Martin-de-Séez, which, owing to the influence of Richelieu, its administrator-general, was reformed in 1636 by the Benedictines of Saint-Maur.
The cathedral of Séez dates from the twelfth century; that of Alençon was begun in the fourteenth.
A provincial council of Normandy was held on 1 October 1196, in which Bishop Lisiard of Séez participated.[2]
On 25 May 1199, Pope Innocent III signed the bull "Quoties a Nobis" for the canons of the cathedral of Séez, confirming all their privileges and possessions in detail.[3]
in fulfillment of a vow, Count Rotrou II of Perche established in 1122, at Soligny, the Abbey of La Trappe, in favour of which bulls were issued by popes Eugene III (1147), Alexander III (1173) and Innocent III (1203).[4] In 1214, Bishop Sylvester (1202–1220) assisted Archbishop Robert of Rouen in the dedication of the abbey church of La Trappe.[5]
During the continuation of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, Matignon, leader of the Catholics, succeeded in saving the lives of the Protestants at Alençon.
French Revolution
During the French Revolution the Trappists went with Dom Augustin de Lestranges, 26 April 1791, into Switzerland, where they founded the convent of La Val Saint, but returned to Soligny soon after the accession of Louis XVII. Among the abbots of the Trappist monastery at Soligny were: Cardinal Jean du Bellay, who held a number of bishoprics and resigned his abbatial dignity in 1538; the historian Dom Gervaise, superior of the abbey from 1696–8.
Restoration
The diocese was re-established by the Concordat of 1802, which, by adding to it some parishes of the Dioceses of Bayeux, Lisieux, Le Mans and Chartres, and by cutting off some districts formerly included in it, made it exactly coextensive with the department. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen in Normandy.
In 1884 Monseigneur Buguet, curé of Montligeon chapel, founded an expiatory society for the abandoned souls in Purgatory, since erected by Pope Leo XIII into a Prima Primaria archconfraternity, which publishes six bulletins in different languages and has members in every part of the world. Notre Dame de la Chapelle Montligeon is also a place of pilgrimage. The Grande Trappe of Soligny still exists in the Diocese of Séez, which before the application of the law of 1901 against religious congregations had different teaching congregations of brothers, in addition to the Redemptorists. Among the congregations of nuns originating in the diocese may be mentioned: the Sisters of Providence, a teaching and nursing institute founded in 1683 with mother-house at Séez; the Sisters of Christian Education, established in 1817 by Abbé Lafosse, mother-house at Argentan, and a branch of the order at Farnborough in England; the Sisters of Mercy, founded in 1818 by Abbé Bazin to nurse the sick in their own homes.
Some bishops
According to the Georges Goyau,[6] "Louis Duchesne believed that for the period anterior to 900 no reliance can be placed on the episcopal catalogue of Séez, which we know by certain compilations of the sixth century." A later tradition assigns Saint Latuinus to the first century and makes him a missionary sent by Pope Clement I.
- Saint Aunobertus (about 689); assassinated, whose double episcopacy Duchesne assigns to the close of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century
- Adelin of Séez, author of a work on the life and miracles of Saint Opportuna of Montreuil
- Jean Bertaut (1607–1611), who, with his fellow-student and friend, Du Perron, contributed to the conversion to Catholicism of Henry IV of France, and who was esteemed for his poetical talents.
- Guillaume-André-Réné Baston, appointed by Napoleon I in 1813, but not approved by Pope Pius VII, who was still a prisoner at Savona.
Saints and pilgrimages
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Some saints were especially venerated in this diocese. These included Ravennus and Rasyphus, martyred in the diocese about the beginning of the third century. Saint Céronne (d. about 490) founded two monasteries of nuns near Mortagne; and Saint Cenerius, or Céneri (d. about 669), born at Spoleto, was the founder of the monastery of Saint Cenerius. Saint Opportuna, sister of Saint Chrodegang,[7] and her aunt, Saint Lanthilda, were abbesses of the two monasteries of Almenèches (end of the seventh or beginning of the eighth century). Saint Evremond (d. about 720) was the founder of the monasteries of Fontenay les Louvets and Montmevrey. Saint Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1099), as Comte de Séez, followed William the Conqueror into England.
The chief pilgrimages in the diocese were Notre-Dame de Champs at Séez, Notre-Dame du Vallet, Notre-Dame du Repos, near Almenèches, three very ancient shrines; Notre-Dame de Lignerolles, a pilgrimage of the seventh century; Notre-Dame de Recouvrance, at Les Tourailles, dating beyond 900; Notre-Dame de Longny, established in the sixteenth century; Notre-Dame du Lignon, a pilgrimage of the seventeenth century.
Bishops
To 1000
- [ Saint Latuin ][8]
- Sigisbold, c. 460
- (c. 460) : Landry
- Nile or Hille (Hillus)
- (c. 500) : Hubert de Sees
- (533–549) : Passivus[10]
- (567–573) : Leudobaudis[11]
- ? (c. 614) : ? Marcellus[12]
- (c. 647/653–663) : Amlacarius[13]
- ? (670–682) : Raverenus[14]
- (c. 688–706) : Alnobertus[15]
- (706) : Rodobert or Chrodobert, also count of Hiémois
- Hugues I (bishop of Sees), 8th century
- (???–750) : Ravenger
- Loyer or Lothaire, around 750
- (???– 770?) : Chrodegang or Godegrand[16]
- (765–805) : Gerard
- (c. 811) : Reginald of Sees
- ( c. 833) : Ingelnom
- (840–852) : Saxoboldus[17]
- (880–916) : Adalhelmus[18]
- (10th cent.) : Robert I
- (10th cent.) : Benedict
- (c. 986–1006) : Azon the Venerable[19]
1000 to 1378
- Richard[20]
- (c. 1010–1026) : Sigefroi or Sigefroi
- (c. 1025–c. 1030) : Radbod
- (c. 1035–1070) : Yves de Bellême[21]
- (c. 1070–c. 1081) : Robert de Ryes[22]
- (1082–1091) : Gerard
- (1091–1123) : Serlon d'Orgères, previously abbot of Saint-Évroult
- (1124–1143) : Jean de Neuville
- (1144–1157) : Gerard
- (1157–1184) : Froger[23]
- (1184–1201) : Lisiard[24]
- (1202–1220) : Sylvester[25]
- (1220–1228) : Gervais of Chichester[26]
- (1228-1240) : Hugues
- (1240–1258) : Geoffroy de Mayet
- (1258–1278) : Thomas d'Aunou
- (1278–1292) : Jean de Bernieres
- (1294–1315) : Philippe Le Boulenger
- (1315–1320) : Richard de Sentilly
- (1320–1356) : Guillaume Mauger
- (1356–1363) : Gervais de Belleau
- (1363–1378) : Guillaume de Rance
1378 to 1650
- (1378–1404) : Gregory Langlois, Avignon Obedience[27]
- (1404–1408) : Pierre Beaublé, Avignon Obedience
- (1408–1422) : Jean, Avignon Obedience
- (1422–1433) : Robert de Rouvres
- (1433–1434) : Thibaut Lemoine
- (1434–1438) : Jean IV Chevalier
- (1438–1454) : Jean de Pérusse d'Escars
- (1454–1478) : Robert de Cornegrue
- (1478–1493) : Étienne Goupillon
- (1493–1502) : Gilles de Laval
- (1503–1510) : Claude d'Husson
- (1511–1539) : Jacques de Silly
- (1539–1545) : Nicolas de Dangu
- (1545–1564) : Pierre Duval
- (1564–1601) : Louis de Moulinet
- (1601–1606) : Claude de Morenne
- (1606–1611) : Jean Bertaut, abbot of Aunay
- (1611–1614) : Jacques Suares
- (1614–1650) : Jacques Camus de Pontcarré
1650 to 1801
- (1651–1671) : François de Rouxel de Médavy[28]
- (1672–1682) : Jean de Forcoal [29]
- (1682–1698) : Mathurin Savary[30]
- (1698–1710) : Louis d'Aquin[31]
- (1710–1727) : Dominique-Barnabé Turgot de Saint-Clair[32]
- (1728–1740) : Jacques-Charles-Alexandre Lallemant[33]
- (1740–1775) : Louis-François Néel de Christot[34]
- (1775–1791) : Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré[35]
- Constitutional Church (schismatic)
- (1791-1801) : André-Jacques-Simon Lefessier[36]
Since 1802
- (1802–1812) : Hilarion-François de Chevigné de Boischollet[37]
- (1817–1836) : Alexis Saussol[38]
- (1836–1843) : Mellon de Jolly[39]
- (1843–1881) : Charles-Frédéric Rousselet (26 Nov 1843 Appointed – 1 Dec 1881 Died)
- (1881–1897) : François-Marie Trégaro (1 Dec 1881 Succeeded – 6 Jan 1897 Died)
- (1897–1926) : Claude Bardel (14 Apr 1897 Appointed – 16 Feb 1926 Died)
- (1926–1961) : Octave-Louis Pasquet (21 Jun 1926 Appointed – 31 Mar 1961 Retired)
- (1961–1971) : André-Jean-Baptiste Pioger (31 Mar 1961 Appointed – 24 Jul 1971 Retired)
- (1971–1985) : Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet[40]
- (1986–2002) : Yves-Maria Guy Dubigeon (22 Aug 1986 Appointed – 25 Apr 2002 Retired)
- (2002–2010) : Jean-Claude Boulanger[41]
- (2010–2020) : Jacques Léon Jean Marie Habert[42]
- (2021–present) : Bruno Feillet (17 July 2021 – present)[43]
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