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The diocese of Luçon is a Diocèse French created in 1317, and reorganized in 1802. It corresponds today to the department of the the Vendée.

practical Card:

  • ecclesiastical Province: Rennes

  • Seat (évêché): Luçon
  • Subdivisions:
  • Population in 1999: 539.664 inhabitants
  • Surface: 6.720 km

  • Bishop: Mgr Michel Santier is the last bishop of Luçon. It was named bishop of Creteil on September 4th, 2007.

Geographical description

The territory of the diocese of Luçon corresponds to the department of the the Vendée. Since the 19th century, the diocese of Luçon corresponds to the department of the the Vendée.

History of the diocese

The évêché of Luçon was founded in 1317 by the pope Jean XXII following the territorial dismemberment of the Diocèse of Poitiers: the bishop of Luçon then became Suffragant of the archbishop of Bordeaux.

The old diocese depended under the old mode (description to be made) .

The diocese was reorganized after the French revolution, in 1802 pursuant to the decrees of the Concordat of 1801. It then continued to belong to the ecclesiastical province of Bordeaux. Since the December 8th 2002, at the time of a reform of the provinces ecclesiastic of the Catholic church of France, it belongs from now on to the province of Rennes.

Its chief town was fixed at Luçon, where the Cathédrale is.

Ecclesiastical subdivisions

The territory of the diocese of Luçon corresponds today to that of the department of the the Vendée.

The diocese of Luçon is divided administratively into…

(new parishes) ?

Administration

Bishops of Luçon

The bishops of the diocese are named by the Pape, on proposal of the Apostolic nuncio.

  • List of the bishops of Luçon

Bishops originating in the diocese of Luçon

The curia

The curia of the diocese is composed of several institutions and people in charge of administrative operation with the district whose bishop has, to spiritual, the load:

  • the Collège of the consultor was set up in 1983, as of the publication of new the Code of right canonical of the pope Jean-Paul II.
  • the Chapter cathédral,
  • the Chancellor
  • the treasurer
  • the Archivist diocesan

Famous characters

  • the Cardinal of Richelieu, Jean Armand of Plessis, principal minister of Louis XIII and founder of the French Academy, is the most famous bishop of Luçon. Bishop of Luçon 1606 - 1623, it qualified its diocese of “évêché more droppings of France”.

Religious heritage

The diocese of Luçon… (to be supplemented)

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