List archbishops of Auch

Evêché d' Auch then archbishop's palace of Auch

The date of the foundation of the diocese is unknown. The title of bishop of Auch appears only with the Concile of Agde of 506, where it is carried by certain Nicetius. The primitive diocese was to include/understand the civitas Auscorum Romans. It would have been surrounded of the dioceses of Toulouse, Comminges, Tarbes, Eauze, Agen and Lectoure.

The diocese of Eauze was ruined by the Normands at the 9th century and its territory was joins together with that of Auch, which inherited its title Métropolitain.

Until the Revolution, its territory remained immutable. It was bordered in north by the dioceses of Bazas and Condom, in the North-East by the diocese of Lectourne, in the east by the diocese of Lombez, in south-east by the diocese of Comminges, in the west by the dioceses of Tarbes and Lescar and in the North-West by the diocese of Surface.

The diocese of Auch was removed by the Concordat of 1802 and its territory attached to the diocese of Agen.

The Legal settlement of 1817 and the bubble Paternae caritatis of the October 6th 1822 restored it. Its territory included/understood from now on the department of Gers. It was the metropolitan spring of évêchés of Aire, Bayonne and Tarbes.

The December 8th 2002, the diocese of Auch is included in the ecclesiastical province of Toulouse.

List archbishops of Auch

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