Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux

Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
Périgueux Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Bordeaux
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Statistics
Area	9,060 km2 (3,500 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 412,082 355,900 (86.4%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St. Front in Périgueux
Patron saint	Saint Front
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Michel Mouïsse
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard
Emeritus Bishops	Gaston Élie Poulain Bishop Emeritus (1988–2004)
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat (Latin: Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis; French: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The see is located in the city of Périgueux, in the department of Dordogne, in the Region of Aquitaine. The diocese forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Bordeaux, and the current Bishop is Philippe Mousset, who was appointed in 2014.

History

The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first Bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361.

Among its bishops are:

• Raymond V, Cardinal of Pons (1220–1223)
• the future cardinal, Hélie de Bourdeilles (1447–1468)
• Claude de Longwy, Cardinal of Givry, who was only the Administrator, not the Bishop, from 27 August 1540 to 27 August 1541.^[1]
• the future Cardinal Gousset (1836–1840), subsequently Archbishop of Reims.

The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of Pope Eugene III (1153). About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by pope John XXII, on 13 January 1318.

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