Diocese of Annecy

The Diocèse of Annecy is a district of the Roman Catholic church in France.

Évêché of Geneva is established in 1569 with Annecy at the time of the final passage of Geneva to the Réforme (Jean Calvin).

The diocese of Annecy

Territory

The territory of the diocese of Annecy currently corresponds to the valleys of Haute-Savoie (provinces of the Genevois, the Faucigny and the Chablais). 38 parishes for 290 communes.

History

To the 16th century, vis-a-vis the claims of the House of Savoy on the city, the Genevese population (Geneva) tends to seek a true emancipation. In addition, the current reformist gains Europe. The city, increasingly shaken, passed to the Reform in 1535. Already in 1533, the bishop of Geneva, Pierre of the Balsam, had been driven out episcopal city to join his inhabitants of Franche-Compt3e grounds. The bishops will not return there any more.

Named in 1568, the bishop Angel Justiniani transfer definitively the episcopal see to Annecy, already seat of the county of Geneva and out of Savoyard ground, from where its successors try to create a glacis vis-a-vis the city calvinist and to reconquer the lost territories. They thus carry the title of bishop of Geneva " in partibus".

Granier, bishop of Geneva-Annecy, send on mission his nephew, François Dirty, to traverse the Chablais, last a time under the control of the Berneses calvinists, in 1594. This work takes 4 years to him, whereas the territory knows disorders (war between Bern and the Maison of Savoy), receiving the support of the duke of Savoy, Charles-Emmanuel Ier. In 1598, following the François, peace treaty the Dirty ones sees his efforts rewarded by the triumph for the " Forty hours of Thonon " (Thonon-the-Baths) during which more " 3 000 calvinists chablaisiens abjures their faith in favor of the catholicisme" , involving a wave of abjuration on the remainder of the territory. It succeeds his uncle with the head of évêché of Geneva, henceforth annecian, in 1602.

François Dirty and Jeanne de Chantal founds, in 1610, the Ordre of the Visitation-Holy-Marie to Annecy.

During the Revolution, the French troops invade Savoy (1793) and set up the department of Mont Blanc on which a diocese of the same name is installed. The bishop flees with Turin, capital of the States of the House of Savoy. The constitutional priests have some evil to establish the change near a population strongly marked by Catholicism. Many ready officiates in clandestine ways in the mountains.

Of 1801 with 1817, always under French domination, one founds the diocese of Chambéry-Annecy, suffragan of the archbishop's palace of Lyon and recovering the whole of the Savoy. From return in the possessions of the House of Savoy, in 1819, Pie VII detaches the diocese of Annecy of the archbishop's palace of Chambéry coldly created. The parishes of the Canton of Geneva join the Swiss diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Freiburg. In 1821, " at the request of the Genevese government, the pope withdraws with the archbishop of Chambéry the title of bishop of Geneva and transfers it to the bishop from Lausanne" ( site of the hls ). The bishops do not carry, from now on, more than the title of bishop of Annecy.

In 1823, the diocese of Mont Blanc becomes again diocese of Annecy.

Orders

Lists of the various orders in the diocese:

Benedictines
Capuchins
Carmelite nuns
Girls of Charity
Girls of the retirement
Notre-Dame Fraternity of the Hope
Notre-Dame Fraternity of Resurrection
Brothers of the Holy Family
Brothers of the Christian schools
Marist brothers
Missionaries of Saint-François Dirty (founded in 1838, by the Father Pierre-Marie Mermier)
Moniales of Bethlehem and of the Assumption of the Virgin of Saint-Bruno
Oblats of Saint-François Dirty (founded in 1874)
Order of the devoted Virgins
Fathers of the Holy Spirit
Little sisters of Jesus of the father of Foucauld
Saint-François Priory the Dirty ones - Notre-Dame d' Espérance - the Community of Benedictines of fragile health
Rédemptoristes
Salésiens de Don Bosco (founded in 1862)
Maidservants of the Lamb of God
Maidservants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Augustines Sisters of Paris
Sisters of Alliance
Sisters of the Assumption
Sisters of Charity
Sisters of the Cross (founded in 1839)
Sisters of the Providence of Peltre
Sisters of the Christian retirement
Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
Sisters of Saint-Joseph
Sisters Salésiennes de Don Bosco
Spiritains
Visitandines

Teaching

114 schools:

56 schools
22 colleges
12 colleges
11 vocational schools
5 agricultural colleges
1 CFA
1 school of production
1 house of reception

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