Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence

The diocese

The diocese of Aquensis in Gallia would have been founded as of the first century. According to the tradition, its founder, holy Maximin would have come from Judaea with Lazare and his two sisters, Marthe and Marie-madeleine.
The old diocese of Aix was limited soon, in the west, by the dioceses of Arles and Tarascon, in north, by the diocese of Avignon, in the east, by the diocese of Frejus and, in the south, by the diocese of Marseilles.
The Constituent Assembly removed the dioceses of Arles and Marseilles and made diocese of Aix the seat of évêché departmental of the Rhone delta.
With the Legal settlement of 1801, the diocese of Toulon, removed, and part of the diocese of Laugh, also removed, were joined together with the diocese of Aix.
Of this vast territory, on October 6th 1822, the bubble Paternae caritatis of the pope Pie VII restores the dioceses of Frejus and of Marseilles and the diocese of Aix became Aix (- Arles-Spray).

The ecclesiastical province

The ecclesiastical province often followed the division of the Roman provinces. Subjected by the pope Symmaque to the church of Arles, it was in 794, with the Concile of Frankfurt, that the diocese of Aix acquired its autonomy and enjoys the metropolitan authority. The limits of the province varied on several occasions. It included/understood initially the dioceses of Apt, of Fréjus, Gap, of Riez and Sisteron.
With the Legal settlement of 1801, the Suffragant S of Aix were Avignon, Digne, Nice and Ajaccio. In 1822, the erection of Avignon in archbishop's palace and the restoration of several dioceses required a new distribution of the dioceses. Aix had like suffragan then Ajaccio, Digne, Fréjus, Gap and Marseilles. Nice was joined there in 1860 and Algiers of 1838 to 1867, date of its rise in archevêché.
Since 1822, the archbishop of Aix carries at the same time the titles of Arles and Spray. December 16th 2002, the archbishop's palace of Aix is not metropolitan any more but becomes suffragan archbishop's palace of Marseilles, high with the row of subway.

List archbishops of Aix-en-Provence

Origins at the year millet

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At our days

Bishop originating in the diocese of Aix-en-Provence

See too

External bonds

  1. Official site of the diocese
  2. Card on catholic-hierarchy.org

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