Old diocese of Coutances

The diocese of Coutances was old a Diocèse French. Until 1569, the bishop of Coutances exerted an ecclesiastical jurisdiction on the Islands of the English Channel (which formed a Doyenné), carrying the title d'" bishop of Coutances and Îles". In 1801 the borders of the diocese are altered following the Concordat (annexation of the territory of the diocese of Avranches). The diocese of Coutances was removed in 1854, its chief town Coutances then became by apostolic decree of the pope Pie IX dated June 12th, the seat of the diocese of Coutances and Avranches. It belonged to the ecclesiastical Province of Rouen.

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ecclesiastical Province: Rouen (ecclesiastical province)
Seat (évêché): Coutances
Subdivisions: Archidiaconés of Coutances, Valognes, Bauptois, Valley of Saire, the La Hague
Surface: to calculate.

Bishops: to see the List of the bishops of Coutances

Geographical description

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History of the old diocese

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Ecclesiastical subdivisions

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Administration

Bishops of Coutances

The bishops of the diocese were named by the chapter until in 1516 then by the king of France. The Pape carried out the canonical nomination then. Coutances was an episcopal see " privilégié": its tévêque had the right to even carry the Pallium, conferred by the pope usually on him, with the archbishops, primacies and patriarchs. Paul VI removed this privilege in 1978.

List of the bishops of Coutances (before 1854)
List of the bishops of Coutances-and-Avranches (since 1854)

The curia

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Famous characters

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Internal bonds

Évêchés of Normandy

External bonds

Diocese of Coutances-and-Avranches (official Internet site)

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