Territorial Prelature of the Mission de France at Pontigny

Territorial Prelature of Mission de France
Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae
Prélature Territoriale de la Mission de France
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Dijon
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dijon
Population
- Catholics		 (as of 2013)
850
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established 15 August 1954
Cathedral Cathédrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption
Current leadership
Prelate Hervé Jean Robert Giraud
Metropolitan Archbishop Roland Minnerath
Website
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The Territorial Prelature of Mission de France (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae; French: Prélature Territoriale de la Mission de France), also known as the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Pontiniacensis; French: Prélature Territoriale de Pontigny) is a Latin Roman Catholic territorial prelature, located in the city of Pontigny in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dijon in Burgundy (France).

History

  • 24 July 1941: The XXVI-th assembly of cardinals and the archbishoprics of France decided to found the Mission de France, opening a seminary in Lisieux, Calvados (Normandy). The purpose of the seminary was to train secular priests to carry out evangelical work in poor French dioceses.[1]
  • 18 January 1954: Giuseppe cardinal Pizzardo, prefect of the Roman Curia's educational department (now Congregation for Catholic Education, then styled Congregation for Seminaries and Universities), notified the Lille diocese that the Mission de France seminary was to be closed and replaced by an "institute for missionary training" which would prepare priests to be sent to dechristianised regions.[2]
  • 15 August 1954: Established as the Territorial Prelature of Mission de France, on territory slit off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sens

Incumbent prelates

(all Roman rite)

Prelates of Mission de France

See also

References

  1. ↑ Histoire Mdf, entry for 24 July 1941 Archived 18 September 2002 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Histoire Mdf, entry for 18 January 1954 Archived 18 September 2002 at the Wayback Machine.

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