Ancient Diocese of Saint-Papoul

Saint-Papoul Cathedral

Map of Diocese of Saint-Papoul

The former French Catholic diocese of Saint-Papoul was created by a bull of Pope John XXII, issued on 22 February 1317. ^[1] The seat of the diocese was at Saint-Papoul, in south-west France, in the modern department of Aude; it was some distance northeast of the main highway between Carcassonne and Toulouse, where there was already a Benedictine monastery.^[2]

The diocese existed until the French Revolution. It was one of the diocese scheduled to be suppressed under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790). Under the Concordat of 1801 its territory was taken over by the diocese of Carcassonne.

Bishops

1317–1600

• Bernard de La Tour : 11 July to 27 December 1317^[3]
• Raymond de Mostuèjouls : 1317-1329^[4]
• Guillaume de Cardailhac 1328-1347
• Bernard de Saint-Martial : 1348-1361
• Pierre de Cros I., O.S.B : 1361-1370
• Bernard de Castelnau, O.S.B : 1370-1375
• Pierre de Cros II. : 1375-1412
• Jean de La Rochetaillée : 1413-1418?
• Jean de Burle : 1418-1422^[5]
• Raymond Macrose (Mairose) : 1424-1426^[6]
• Pierre Soybert : 1427-1443
• Raymond de Lupault : 1451-ca. 1465
• Jean de La Porte : 1465-1468
• Denis de Bar^[7] : 1468-1471^[8]
• Clément de Brillac 1472-1495
• Denis de Bar 1495-1510 (second time)^[9]
• Karl de Bar 1510-1538
• Giovanni Salviati 1538-1549 (administrator; Cardinal)
• Bernardo Salviati 1549-1561 (Cardinal)
• Antoine-Marie Salviati 1561-1564 (Cardinal)
• Alexandre de Bardis 1564-1591

1600–1800

• Jean Raimond 1602-1604^[10]
• François de Donnadieu 1608-1626
• Louis de Claret 1626-1636
• Bernard Despruets 1636-1655
• Jean de Montpezat de Carbon 1657-1664^[11]
• Joseph de Montpezat de Carbon 1664-1674^[12]
• François Barthélemy de Grammont 1677-1716^[13]
• Gabriel-Florent de Choiseul-Beaupré 1716-1723
• Jean-Charles de Ségur 1724-1735
• Georges Lazare Berger de Charancy 1735-1738^[14]
• Daniel Bertrand de Langle 1739-1774
• Guillaume-Joseph D'Abzac de Mayac 1775-1784
• Jean-Baptiste-Marie de Maillé de La Tour-Landry 1784-1801

References

1. Gallia christiana XIII, pp. 299-300, and Instrumenta no. xi, pp. 252-256.
2. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Carcassonne
3. Bishop Bernard died on 27 December 1317. Eubel, I, p. 390.
4. (previously bishop of Saint-Flour, Cardinal 1327, † 1335)
5. (previously bishop of Nizza, then bishop of Saint-Flour)
6. (previously bishop of Castres, Cardinal 1426, † 1427)
7. Denis de Bar had been Archdeacon of Narbonne, and (unusually) he was allowed to retain the position as Bishop. P. L. Lewis (1985). Essays in Later Medieval French History. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-8264-2383-2.
8. Eubel, II, p. 212.
9. He had been Bishop of Tulle in the interval. Eubel, II, p. 212, 259.
10. Bishop Raymond was approved by Pope Clement VIII and had his bulls issued on 28 May 1601. Gauchat, IV, p. 273.
11. (then archbishop of Bourges)
12. (then archbishop of Toulouse)
13. Ritzler, V, p. 306 with note 2.
14. Bishop Berger was a Doctor of theology (Paris). He was Archdeacon and Vicar-General of Meaux for fifteen years. He was nominated by King Louis XV on 8 April 1735, and approved by Pope Clement XII on 27 June 1735. He was transferred to Montpellier on 3 September 1738. Ritzler, VI, p. 328, with note 2.

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 582–584. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 390.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 212.
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 253.
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. pp. 273-274.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. pp. 280.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 328.
• Sainte-Marthe, Denis de (1785). Gallia christiana, in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa (in Latin). Tomus tertius decimus (13). Paris: excudebat Johannes- Baptista Coignard, regis & Academiae Gallicae Architypographus. pp. 299–318; Instrumenta, pp. 247–262.

Studies

• Douaie, Célestin (1880). "État du diocèse de Saint-Papoul et sénéchaussée du Lauragais en 1573". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions, et belles-lettres de Toulouse. Série 9, Tome 2 (1890), pp. 473-489.
• Du Bourg, Henry (1914). "La saisie du temporal ecclésiastique du diocese de Saint-Papoul en 1582," Revue des questions historiques 96 [n.s. 52] (1914), pp. 69-81.
• Hennet de Bernoville, Hyppolyte-Amédée (1863). Mélanges concernant l'évêché de St-Papoul: pages extraites et traduites d'un manuscrit du quinzième siècle (in French and Latin). Paris: AD. Lainé et J. Havard.
• Sabarthès, Antoine (1902). Inventaire des droits et revenus de l'évêché de Saint-Papoul (in French and Latin). Paris: Picard.