List Cambric bishops

For the history of évêché and archbishop's palace:

Chronology of the bishops and the archbishops

6th century

v. 500 - † v. 540: Vaast saint, would have been installed bishop with Arras a few years after the baptism of Clovis by Saint Remi.
v. 540: saint Dominique
v. 545 - † v. 580: saint Védulphe
584 - † 623/627: Holy Géry, former deacon of Trier, sent as bishop to Cambrai by the king Childebert and crowned by Egidius, subway of Rheims. It attended the general council that Clotaire II joins together with Paris in 614.

Starting from Géry saint, the Cambric bishop manages at the same time the two churches, that of Cambric and that of Arras.

7th century

627 : saint Berthold
v. 633: Ablebert saint (not to confuse with the Emebert saint)
† before 679, probably in 668: saint Aubert
669 - † 693/712: saint Vindicien

8th century

† June 21st between 712 and 715: Hildebert
† 717 : Hunald
717 - † May 19th 728/729: Hadulf saint, abbot of Saint-Vaast
728/730 - † v. 752: Treuvard
750/752 - † v. 763: Gaufrid, or Gunfrid or Gaufroy or Godefrid
763/764 - † v. 790: Albéric, made write a Recueil of guns
v. 790 - † July 4th 816: Hildeguard or Hildoard or Hildoward, made write a Sacramentaire for its clergy. This manuscript is with the Cambric library.

9th century

817 - † 830 or 831: Halitgaire or Halitgarius, ambassador of Louis Débonnaire with Constantinople in 828
831 - † August 5th 862 or 863: Thierry or Théodoric
863 - 866: Gontbert, Tetbold, Hilduin (intruding, imposed by Lothaire II).
866 - † August 15th 877 or 879: saint Jean 1st
879 - † October 14th 886 or 887: saint Rothade or Rothad
March 17th 888 - † apr. 901: Dodilon

10th century

909 - † February 11th 934: Etienne
934 - † July 956: Fulbert
956 - 958: Berenger
958 - † October 12th 960: Engran or Ingelram or Enguerrand
960 - 965: Ansbert or Autbert
965 - 966: Wilbold
v. 972 - † August 28th 976: Tetdon or Theodotus
v. 976 - † v. 995: Rothard
996 - † 1012: Erluin

11th century

1012 - † March 14th 1051: Gerard Ier
1051 - † 1076: Lietebert saint or Liébert
1076 - † 11 or August 12th 1092: Gerard II

In 1093 the head office of Arras is detached from Cambric.

1093 - 1103: Manassès, transferred by Pascal II to Soissons.
1093 - 1106: Walcher, promoted with évêché by the emperor Henri IV, it was maintained there against Manassès, although deposited by the pope with the Concile of Clermont in November 1095

12th century

1105 - † June 19th 1116: saint Odon de Tournai
1116 - † 3 or January 4th 1130: Burchard
1131 - 1137: Liétard (deposited)
1137 - † July 1167: Nicolas 1st of Chièvres
1167 - 1173: Pierre 1st of Flanders or Alsace, elected official not devoted; give up évêché in 1173
1173 - † 1174: Robert d' Aire, elected official not devoted; assassinated on October 4th 1174
1175 - † 1178: Alard, elected official not devoted
1179 - 1191: Oger or Roger de Wavrin
1192 - 1196: Jean II of Antoing
1197: Nicolas II of Rœulx
1197 - 1198: Hugues, elected official not devoted

13th century

1199 - 1200: Pierre II of Corbeil, promoted archbishop of Direction, in December 1200
1200 - † July 27th 1219: Jean III of Béthune
1220 - † 1237/1238: Godefroid de Fontaines
1238 - † 1247: GUI 1st of Laon
1248 or 1249 - † v. 1273: Nicolas III of Fountains
1274 - 1286: Ingelram or Enguerrand II of Créqui, transferred to Thérouanne
1286 - † 1296: Guillaume d' Avesnes or of Hainaut
1296 - 1306: GUI II of Medio Adhesive, promoted archbishop of Salerno, on January 22nd, 1306, died in Avignon before to have taken possession of its archbishop's palace

14th century

1306 - 1309: Philippe de Marigny, transferred to Sens
1309 - 1324: Pierre III of Lévis-Mirepoix, transferred to Bayeux, on March 28th, 1324
1324 - 1336: GUI III of Bologna, archbishop of Lyon in 1340, cardinal in 1342; † on November 25th 1373
1336 - 1342: Guillaume II of Auxonne, transferred to Autun, on September 25th 1342; † in 1344
1342 - 1349: GUI IV of Ventadour, transferred to Vabres, on February 17th, 1349; † in 1352
1349 - † September 13rd 1368: Pierre IV of Clertmont, before bishop of Boundary-line, then of Clermont).
1368 - 1371: Robert of Geneva, it was before bishop of Thérouanne. He became cardinal, on May 30th 1371, then pope under the name of Clément VII)
1371 - † June 18th 1378: Gerard III of Dainville, before bishop of Thérouanne)
1378 - † January 12th 1389: Jean IV You Serclaes
1389 - 1396: Andre of Luxembourg

15th century

1396 - 1411: Pierre d' Ailly, it was before bishop of Puy and became cardinal, on June 6th, 1411; † on August 14th 1420
1412 - † 1436 or 1438; Jean V of Gavere, known as Liedekercke
1439 - 1479: bastard Jean VI of Burgundy, wire of Jean without Fear
1480 - † October 7th 1502: Henri de Berghes

16th century

1503 - † August 15th 1516: Jacques de Croy
1516 - 1519: Guillaume de Croy, created cardinal deacon the April 1517, apostolic administrator of Tolède, on December 31st 1517, it resigns of Cambric in 1519; † January 11th 1521
1519 - † August 31st 1556: Robert de Croy

The Cambric episcopal see is set up in archbishop's palace by bubbles of the pope Paul IV of May 12th, 1559

1556 - † August 27th 1570: Maximilien de Berghes, archbishop since May 12th 1559
1570 - † February 15th 1596: Louis de Berlaymont
1596 - † March 3rd 1598: Jean Sarrazin

17th century

1601 - † April 25th 1609: Guillaume de Berghes
1609 - † February 28th 1614: Jean Richardot
1615 - † May 2nd 1615: François Buisseret, transferred from Namur
1615 - † May 23rd 1644: François Van der Burch, transferred from Ghent
1645 - † November 22nd 1647: Joseph de Bergaigne, transferred from Wood-the-Duke
1649 - † November 29th 1667: Gaspard Nemius Van den Bosch or Dubois, transferred from Antwerp
1671 - † September 22nd 1674: Ladislas Jonnart, transferred from Saint-Omer

Cambric is taken by Louis XIV in 1677 and is attached to France by the Traité of Nimègue the following year.

1675 - † November 16th 1694: Jacques-Theodore de Bryas, transferred from Saint-Omer

In 1682 the chapter of the metropolis yields to the king his right to choose the Cambric archbishop.

18th century

1695 - † January 7th 1715: François de Salignac of Mothe-Fénelon is the first archbishop named by the king of France.
1716 - † March 4th 1718: Jean d' Estrées
1718 - † January 8th 1720: Emmanuel of Trémoille, cardinal in 1706, bishop of Bayeux in 1716, crowned archbishop of Cambric in Rome by Clement XI on May 30th 1719; † in Rome.
1720 - † August 10th 1723: Guillaume Dubois, created cardinal on July 16th 1721, put forever feet in its diocese.
1723 - † May 9th 1764: Charles of Saint-Albin, transferred from Laon, on October 17th, 1723
1764 - † September 4th 1774: Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville, transferred from Albi, on May 15th, 1764
1774 - † January 22nd 1781: Henri-Marie-Bernardin of Ceilhes of Rosset de Rocozel de Fleury, transferred from Turns on September 24th, 1774
1781 - 1801: Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan, prince de Guéméné, transferred from Bordeaux on February 4th, 1781, resigns its seat at the request of Pie VII in December 1801; † on October 31st 1813

During the promulgation of the civil Constitution of the clergy the Cambrai on July 12th, 1790 becomes again évêché, its diocese corresponding to the Département of North lately created.

Monseigneur de Rohan withdraws itself with the abbey of Saint-Guislain to Mons. Having refused to lend oath, it is relieved. The Oratorien Claude Primat is elected constitutional bishop on March 20th, 1791. In November 1793 he will declare “true sans-culotte”.

19th century

The legal settlement of 1801 restores the Cambric episcopal see.

1802 - † July 21st 1841: Louis Belmas, constitutional bishop of the Aude

With died of Louis Belmas the Cambric episcopal see is again set up in archbishop's palace by bubble of the pope Gregoire XVI of October 1st, 1841.

1841 - † April 17th 1850: Pierre Giraud, transferred from Rodez on December 4th, 1841, cardinal on June 11th, 1847
1850 - † January 4th 1881: Rene-François Régnier, transferred from Angouleme on May 6th, 1850, created cardinal on December 22nd 1873
1881 - † September 15th 1884: Alfred Duquesnay, transferred from Limoges, on May 13rd, 1881
1885 - † August 7th 1888: François-Edouard Hasley, transferred from Avignon, on May 27th, 1885
1889 - † January 9th 1892: Odon Thibaudier, transferred from Soissons, on February 14th, 1889
1893 - † February 7th 1913: Etienne-Marie-Alphonse Sonnois, transferred from Saint-Dié, on January 19th, 1893

20th century

1913 - † July 21st 1913: François-Marie-Joseph Delamaire, bishop of Périgueux in 1901, archbishop of Méthymne and Coadjutor of Cambric on September 3rd 1906

The decree of October 25th, 1913 creates the Diocèse of Lille, removing with the Cambric diocese the districts of Lille, Hazebrouck and Dunkirk. The dioceses of Arras and Lille are Suffragant S of Cambric.

1913 - † 1952: Jean Arthur Chollet, transferred from Verdun, on November 20th, 1913
1952 - 1966: Emile Maurice Guerry, coadjutor Cambric on May 31st, 1940, † March 11th, 1969
1966 - 1980: Henri-Martin Felix Jenny, auxiliary 1959, coadjutor 1965, † March 8th, 1982
1980 - † November 21st 1999: Jacques Delaporte, transferred from Nancy, in March 1980

21e century

2000 -: François Garnier, transferred from Luçon, on December 7th, 2000

See too

Archbishop's palace of Cambric
Official site of the Cambric diocese

References and notes

Bouly, Eugene: historical Dictionary of the town of Cambric, the abbeys, the castle-forts and antiquities of Cambrésis , Cambric 1854
Trénard, Louis (under the direction of): History of Cambric , University Presses of Lille 1982

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