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Diocese of Orléans

Dioecesis Aurelianensis

Diocèse d'Orléans
Orléans Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
TerritoryLoiret
Ecclesiastical provinceTours
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Tours
Statistics
Area6,811 km2 (2,630 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2023)
  • 682,000 (est.) Increase
  • 450,320 (est.) Increase
Parishes261 Decrease
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established4th Century (?)
CathedralCathedral Basilica of the Holy Cross in Orléans
Patron saintSaint Aignan
Secular priests72 (Diocesan) Decrease
21 (Religious Orders) Decrease
35 Permanent Deacons Increase
Current leadership
PopeSede vacante
BishopJacques Blaquart
Metropolitan ArchbishopVincent Jordy
Bishops emeritusAndré Louis Fort Bishop Emeritus (2003-2010)
Map
Website
catholique-orleans.cef.fr

The Diocese of Orléans (Latin: Dioecesis Aurelianensis; French: Diocèse d'Orléans) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese currently corresponds to the Départment of Loiret. The current bishop is Jacques André Blaquart, who was appointed in 2010.

The diocese has experienced a number of transfers among different metropolitans. In 1622, the diocese was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris; previously the diocese had been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sens. From 1966 until 2001 it was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Bourges, but since the provisional reorganisation of French ecclesiastical provinces, it is now subject to the Archdiocese of Tours.

After the Revolution it was re-established by the Concordat of 1802. It then included the Departments of Loiret and Loir et Cher, but in 1822 Loir et Cher was moved to the new Diocese of Blois.

In 2021, in the Diocese of Orleans, there was one priest for every 4,306 Catholics.

Jurisdiction

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The present Diocese of Orléans differs considerably from that of the old regime; it has lost the arrondissement of Romorantin which has passed to the Diocese of Blois and the canton of Janville, now in the Diocese of Chartres. It includes the arrondissement of Montargis, formerly subject to the Archdiocese of Sens, the arrondissement of Gien, once in the Burgundian Diocese of Auxerre, and the canton of Châtillon sur Loire, once belonging to the Archdiocese of Bourges.

History

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Foundation myth

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To Gerbert, Abbot of St. Pierre le Vif at Sens (1046–79), is due a detailed narrative according to which Saint Savinianus and Saint Potentianus were sent to Sens by St. Peter with St. Altinus; the latter, it was said, came to Orléans as its first bishop.[1] Before the ninth century there is no historical trace in the Diocese of Sens of this Apostolic mission of St. Altinus, nor in the Diocese of Orléans before the end of the fifteenth. Christianity was an illegal cult in Roman law until the Edict of Milan.[2]

Diclopitus is the first authentic bishop; he figures among the bishops of Gaul who (about 344) ratified the absolution of St. Athanasius. Other bishops of the early period are: St. Euvertius (who features in the Calendar of the Book of Common Prayer), about 355 to 385, according to M. Cuissard; Anianus (385-453), who invoked the aid of the "patrician" Ætius against the invasion of Attila, and forced the Huns to raise the siege of Orléans [see Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks II.6-7]; St. Prosper (453-63); St. Monitor (about 472); St. Flou (Flosculus), died in 490; St. Eucherius (717-43), native of Orléans and a monk of Jumièges, who protested against the depredations of Waifre, a companion of Charles Martel, and was first exiled by this prince to Cologne, then to Liège, and died at the monastery of St. Trond.

Cathedral

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Orléans Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Cross; after being pillaged by Huguenots in the 1560s, the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century.

The cathedral of Sainte Croix, perhaps built and consecrated by Bishop Euvertius in the fourth century, was destroyed by fire in 999, and rebuilt between 1278 and 1329; the Protestants pillaged and destroyed it during the Wars of Religion, from 1562 to 1567; the Bourbon kings restored it in the seventeenth century.

Abbey of Micy

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After his victory over the Alamanni, the Frankish king Clovis was bent on the sack of Verdun, but the archpriest there obtained mercy for his fellow-citizens. To St. Euspicius and his nephew St. Mesmin (Maximinus), Clovis also gave the domain of Micy, near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, for a monastery (508). When Euspicius died, the said St. Maximinus became abbot, and during his rule the religious life flourished there notably. The monks of Micy contributed much to the civilization of the Orléans region; they cleared and drained the lands and taught the semi-barbarous inhabitants the worth and dignity of agricultural work. Early in the eighth century, Theodulfus restored the Abbey of Micy and at his request St. Benedict of Aniane sent fourteen monks and visited the abbey himself.[3]

From Micy monastery, which counted many saints, monastic life spread within and around the diocese. St. Liphardus and St. Urbicius founded the Abbey of Meung-sur-Loire; St. Lyé (Lætus) died a recluse in the forest of Orléans; Viator of Orleans in Sologne; St. Doulchard in the forest of Ambly near Bourges. Leonard of Noblac introduced the monastic life into the territory of Limoges; St. Almir, St. Ulphacius, and St. Bomer in the vicinity of Montmirail; St. Avitus (died about 527) in the district of Chartres; St. Calais (died before 536) and St. Leonard of Vendœuvre (died about 570) in the valley of the Sarthe; St. Fraimbault and St. Constantine in the Javron forest, and the aforesaid St. Bomer (died about 560) in the Passais near Laval; St. Leonard of Dunois; St. Alva and St. Ernier in Perche; St. Laumer (died about 590) became Abbot of Corbion. St. Lubin (Leobinus), a monk of Micy, became Bishop of Chartres from 544–56. Finally saint Ay (Agilus), Viscount of Orléans (died after 587), was also a protector of Micy.[4]

The last abbot of Micy, Chapt de Rastignac, was one of the victims of the 1792 "September Massacres", at Paris, in the prison of L'Abbaye.[5]

Theodulf

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Charlemagne had the church of St. Aignan rebuilt, and reconstructed the monastery of St. Pierre le Puellier.

It is not known when Bishop Theodulfus began to govern, but it is certain that he was already bishop in 798, when Charlemagne sent him into Narbonne and Provence as missus dominicus. Under king Louis le Débonnaire he was accused of aiding the rebellious King of Italy, was deposed and imprisoned four years in a monastery at Angers, but was released when Louis came to Angers in 821, reportedly after hearing Theodulfus sing "All Glory, Laud and Honour." The "Capitularies" which Theodulfus addressed to the clergy of Orléans are considered a most important monument of Catholic tradition on the duties of priests and the faithful. His Ritual, his Penitential, his treatise on baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist, his edition of the Bible, a work of fine penmanship preserved in the Puy cathedral, reveal him as one of the foremost men of his time.[6] His fame rests chiefly on his devotion to the spread of learning. The Abbey of Ferrières was then becoming under Alcuin a centre of learning. Theodulfus opened the Abbey of Fleury to the young noblemen sent thither by Charlemagne, invited the clergy to establish free schools in the country districts, and quoted for them, "These that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars to all eternity" (Dan., xii 3). One monument of his time still survives in the diocese, the apse of the church of Germigny-des-Prés modelled after the imperial chapel, and yet retaining its unique mosaic decoration.

In October 856, the Northmen invaded and surrounded Orléans, which was able to avoid pillage and burning by the payment of a large sum of money. The Northmen turned their attention instead on the abbey of Saint-Micy, which was entirely destroyed. They burned Paris in 857, and returned to Orléans in 865, when they destroyed part of the fortifications, pillaged the city, and put it to the torch. The churches went up in flames, except for the cathedral. They then turned on the abbey of Saint-Benedict in Fleury, which they found entirely evacuated nonetheless, they set fire to all the buildings.[7]

In the cathedral of Orléans on 31 December 987, Hugh Capet had his son Robert (born at Orléans) crowned king.

Pope Innocent II and Bernard of Clairvaux visited Fleury and Orléans in 1130.

Later history

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The people of Orléans were so impressed by the preaching of the Breton Robert of Arbrissel in 1113 that he was invited by Bishop Jean (II) to found the monastery of La Madeleine for women,[8] which he re-visited in 1117 in the company of Abbot Bernard of Thiron.

The charitable deeds of Louis IX of France at Puiseaux, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, and Orléans, where he was present at the translation of the relics of St. Aignan (26 October 1259), and where he frequently went to care for the poor of the Hôtel Dieu, are well known. Pierre de Beaufort, Archdeacon of Sully and canon of Orléans, was, as Gregory XI (1371-8), the last pope that France gave to the Church; he created Cardinal Jean de la Tour d'Auvergne, Abbot of St. Benoît-sur Loire.

Jeanne d'Arc

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France was saved from English domination through the deliverance of Orléans by Joan of Arc (8 May 1429). On 21 July 1455, her rehabilitation was publicly proclaimed at Orléans in a solemn procession, and before her death in November 1458, Isabel Romée, the mother of Joan of Arc, saw a monument erected in honour of her daughter, at Tournelles, near the Orléans bridge. The monument, destroyed by the Huguenots in 1567, was set up again in 1569 when the Catholics were once more masters of the city. Until 1792, and again from 1802 to 1830, finally from 1842 to the present day, a great religious feast, celebrated 8 May of every year at Orléans in honour of Joan of Arc, attracted multitudes.

After her separation from Louis XII (1498), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, Duchess of Orléans, established, early in the sixteenth century, the monastery of L'Annonciade at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. Etienne Dolet (1509–46), a printer, philologian, and pamphleteer, executed at Paris and looked upon by some as a "martyr of the Renaissance", was a native of Orléans.

Reformation and Countereformation

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Cardinal Odet de Coligny, who joined the Reformation about 1560, was Abbot of St. Euvertius, of Fontainejean, Ferrières, and St. Benoît. Admiral Coligny (1519–72) (see Saint Bartholomew's Day) was born at Châtillon-sur-Loing in the present diocese. At the beginning of the religious wars, Orléans was disputed between the followers of the Guise family and of the Protestant Condé. In the vicinity of Orléans, Duke Francis of Guise was assassinated on 3 February 1562.

The Calvinist Jacques Bongars, councillor of king Henry IV of France, who collected and edited the chronicles of the Crusades in his "Gesta Dei per Francos", was born at Orléans in 1554. The Jesuit Denis Petav (Petavius), a renowned scholar and theologian, was born at Orléans in 1583. Francis of Sales came to Orléans in 1618 and 1619. Françoise de la Croix (1591–1657), a pupil of Vincent de Paul, who founded the congregation of Augustinian Sisters of Charity of Notre Dame, was born at Petay in the diocese. The Miramion family, to which Marie Bonneau is celebrated in the annals of charity under the name of Mme de Miramion (1629–96), belonged by marriage, were from Orléans. St. Jane de Chantal was superior of the Orléans convent of the Visitation in 1627. Mme Guyon, celebrated in the annals of Quietism, was born at Montargis in 1648.

French Revolution

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Of the 129 bishops of French dioceses alive on 1 January 1791, only four took it upon themselves to swear the oath of allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. One of them was Jarente de Senas d’Orgeval, Bishop of Orléans.[9]

Recent history

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In 1850, the diocese of Orléans was divided for administrative purposes into four archdeaconries (Orléans, Montargis, Pithiviers, and Gien) and twenty-nine deaneries; in addition there were five city deaneries. There were 429 priests in a population of 331,633.[10] The cathedral of Saint-Croix was a parish church for c. 8,000 persons.Annuaire général du Diocèse d'Orléans, pour l'an 1851, p. 8.</ref>

The Cathedral chapter consisted of 3 dignities (the Dean, the Subdean, and the Archpriest) and nine canons. There were in addition three canons of honor, the bishops of Langres, Tours, and Metz, each of which had an earlier connection to the diocese.[11]

The Church of Orléans was the last in France to take up again the Roman liturgy (1874).

Prior to the Associations Law of 1901, the Diocese of Orléans counted Franciscans, Benedictines, Missionary Priests of the Society of Mary, Lazarists, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and several orders of teaching Brothers. Among the congregations of women which originated in this diocese must be mentioned: the Benedictines of Our Lady of Calvary, a teaching and nursing order founded in 1617 by Princess Antoinette d'Orléans-Longueville, and authorized in the diocese of Orléans in 1827;[12] and the Capuchin Leclerc du Tremblay known as Père Joseph; the Sisters of St. Aignan, a teaching order founded in 1853 by Bishop Dupanloup, with mother-house in Orléans.[13]

Bishop Guy Riobé (1963–1978), took a public stand in opposition to nuclear weapons, which led to an altercation with a member of Georges Pompidou's government. His successor, Jean-Marie Lustiger, who had been born of a Polish Jewish family and had converted to Catholicism, was appointed in 1979, and shortly afterwards was transferred to the archdiocese if Paris; he was named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 2 February 1983, and elected a member of the Académie Française on 15 June 1995.

Bishops of Orléans

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To 1200

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  • Diclopitus (346)[14]
? Eortius (374?)[15]
  • Anianus (Agnan) (c. 451)[16]
  • Prosper (after 451–463?)[17]
  • Eusebius (c. 511)[18]
  • Leontius (c. 533)[19]
  • Antoninus (538)[20]
  • Marcus (c. 541–549)[21]
  • Namatius (c. 581–587)[22]
  • Austrinus (c. 594–604)[23]
  • Liudigislus (c. 614)[24]
  • Audo (c. 650–667)[25]
  • ? Sigobertus (c. 683)[26]
  • Suavaricus (c. 693–697)[27]
  • Eucherius of Orléans (c. 719–738)[28]
  • Deotimius (c. 790)[29]
  • Theodulfus (c. 798–821)[30]
  • Jonas (821 – 843)[31]
  • Agius
  • Walterius (c. 869–891)
  • Trohannus
  • Berno
  • Anselmus
  • Theodericus
  • Ermentheus
  • Arnulfus
  • Manasses
  • Arnulfus (II) (c. 987–1003)[32]
  • Fulco (1003– )[33]
  • Theodericus (II) (1016–1021)[34]
  • Odolricus (1021–1031)[35]
  • Isembardus
  • Hadericus
  • Rainerius (c. 1066–1082)
  • Arnulfus (III)
  • Joannes (1085–1096)[36]
  • Sanctio (1096)[37]
  • Jean (1096–1135 )[38]
  • Elias (1137–1146)[39]
  • Manasses (II) (1146–1185)[40]
  • Henricus (1186–1198)[41]

From 1200 to 1450

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  • Hugo de Garlande (1198–1206)[42]
  • Manassas de Seignelay (1207–1221)[43]
  • Philippus de Jojaco (1221–1234)[44]
  • Philip Berruyer (1234–1236)[45]
  • Guilelmus de Bussi (1238–1258)[46]
  • Robert de Courtenay (1258–1279)
  • Egidius de Pa(s)te (1282–1288)
  • Pierre de Mornay (1288–1296)[47]
  • Ferricus (1296–1299)[48]
  • Bertrand de Saint-Denis (1299–1307)
  • Radulfus Grosparmi (1308–1311)
  • Milo de Chailli (1312–1321)
  • Roger le Fort (1321–1328)[49]
  • Johannes de Conflans (1328–1349)[50]
  • Philippe de Conflans (1349)[51]
  • Jean de Montemorantiaco (1349–1363)
  • Hugues de Faydit (1363–1371)
  • Jean Nicot (1371-1383) Avignon Obedience
  • Fulco de Chanac (1383–1394) Avignon Obedience
  • Guy de Prunelé (1394–1425?) Avignon Obedience
  • Jean de S. Michel (Carmichael) (1426–1435)[52]
Sede vacante (1435–1438)

From 1450 to 1650

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  • Johannes de Harecuria (1451–1452)[57]
  • Thibault d'Assigny (1452-1473)[58]
  • François de Brillac (1473–1504)[59]
  • Christophe de Brillac (1504–1514)[60]
  • Germain de Gannai (1514–1520)[61]
  • Jean d’Orléans-Longueville (1521–1533)[62]
  • Antoine Sanguin de Meudon † (6 Nov 1533 Appointed – 20 Oct 1550 Resigned)
  • François de Faucon † (20 Oct 1550 Appointed – 12 Oct 1551 Appointed, Bishop of Mâcon)
  • Pierre du Chastel † (12 Oct 1551 Appointed – 3 Feb 1552 Died)
  • Jean de Morvillier † (27 Apr 1552 Appointed – 1564 Resigned)
  • Mathurin de la Saussaye † (6 Sep 1564 Appointed – 9 Feb 1584 Died)
  • Denis Hurault † (9 Feb 1584 Succeeded – 1586 Resigned)
  • Germain Vaillant de Guelin † (27 Oct 1586 Appointed – 15 Sep 1587 Died)
  • Jean de L’Aubespine † (16 Mar 1588 Appointed – 23 Feb 1596 Died)
  • Gabriel de L’Aubespine (1604–1630[63]
  • Nicolas de Netz (1631–1646)[64]

From 1650 to 1800

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Sede vacate (1793–1802)[72]

Since 1802

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Sede vacante (1810–1819)[75]

Saints

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Among the notable saints of the diocese are:

St. Maurus, called to France by St. Innocent, Bishop of Le Mans, and sent thither by St. Benedict, resided at Orléans with four companions in 542. St. Radegonde, on her way from Noyon to Poitiers in 544, and St. Columbanus, exiled from Luxeuil at the close of the sixth century, both visited Orléans.

Pilgrimages

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The principal pilgrimages of the diocese are: Our Lady of Bethlehem, at Ferrières; Our Lady of Miracles in Orléans city, dating back to the seventh century (Joan of Arc visited the sanctuary on 8 May 1429); Our Lady of Cléry, dating from the thirteenth century, visited by kings Philip the Fair, Philip VI, and especially by Louis XI, who wore in his hat a leaden image of Notre Dame de Cléry and who wished to have his tomb in this sanctuary where Jean de Dunois, one of the heroes of the Hundred Years' War, was also interred.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pelletier, pp. 1-4.
  2. ^ Louis Duchesne, Early History of the Christian Church, translated from the 4th edition, Volume 1 (London: John Murray 1909), pp. 276-281.
  3. ^ Duchateau, pp. 26-28.
  4. ^ Duchateau, pp. 28-38.
  5. ^ Duchateau, pp. 365, 384.
  6. ^ See Patrologia Latina, CV, 187).
  7. ^ Duchateau, pp. 66-67.
  8. ^ Baunier, Abbayes et prieurés de l'ancienne France, (in French), nouvelle édition, Volume 1 (Paris: Poussielgue 1905), p. 368. Gallia christiana VIII, "Instrumenta," pp. 500-501, no. XX.
  9. ^ Pisani, pp. 18, 72. The other juring bishops were Talleyrand of Autun, Savine of Viviers, and Cardinal Loménie de Brienne.
  10. ^ Victor Pelletier (ed.), Annuaire général du Diocèse d'Orléans, pour l'an 1851, (in French), (Orléans: A. Gatineau 1850), p. xxii, pp. 1, 8.
  11. ^ Annuaire général du Diocèse d'Orléans, pour l'an 1851, p. 5. There were also 66 honorary canons who resided in the diocese, and 16 who were non-residentiary, including the parish priest of Domremy.
  12. ^ Émile Keller, Les congrégations religieuses en France, leurs oeuvres et leurs services, (in French), (Paris:Poussielgue 1880), pp. 338.
  13. ^ Émile Keller, pp. 340, 341.
  14. ^ Diclopitus: Duchesne, p. 460, no. 1.
  15. ^ A bishop named Eortius attended the council of Valence in 374. His diocese is not named, and thus it is not certain that he belongs to Orléans, due to the uncertainty of the dates of many of the early bishops of Orléans; the name Evurcius belongs to the fourth position in the catalogue, and his life is a fiction of the 9th century. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1410-1411. Duchesne, p. 460, no. 4.
  16. ^ Anianus (Aignan, Agnan) assisted the Roman general Flavius Aetius in the defense of the city against Attila the Hun in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451. Duchesne, p. 460, no. 5.
  17. ^ Prosper was the successor of Anianus, and the recipient of a letter from Bishop Sidonius Apollinaris of Clermont (469–after 481). Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1412. Duchateau, p. 15. Duchesne, p. 460, no. 10.
  18. ^ Bishop Eusebius attended the first council of Orléans in 511. Duchateau, pp. 20-22. Duchesne, p. 461, no. 13.
  19. ^ Bishop Leontius was present at the second council of Orléans in 533, presided over by Honorius of Bruges. Duchateau, p. 22. Duchesne, p. 461, no. 14.<
  20. ^ Bishop Antoninus took part in the third council of Orléans in 538. Duchateau, pp. 22-24. Duchesne, p. 461, no. 15.
  21. ^ Bishop Marcus took part in the fourth council of Orléans (541), and in the fifth council of Orleans (549). Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1414-1415. Duchateau, pp. 24-25. Duchesne, p. 461, no. 16.
  22. ^ Bishop Namatius attended the council of Mâcon in 581, and again in 585. He was an ambassador of King Guntram (561–592) to the Bretons in 587, and died during the return journey. Duchesne, p. 461, no. 20.
  23. ^ Austrinus is mentioned by Gregory of Tours, who died in 594, and is noted by the Chronicle of Fredegar for an event of 604. Duchesne, p. 462, no. 21.
  24. ^ Bishop Liudigislus attended the council of Paris in 614. Duchesne, p. 462, no. 22.
  25. ^ Bishop Audo attended the council of Chalon-sur-Saône in 650, and subscribed documents in 660, 664, and 667. Duchesne, p. 462, no. 23.
  26. ^ Duchesne, p. 462, no. 25.
  27. ^ Suavericus: Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1417. Duchesne, p. 462, no. 26.
  28. ^ Eucherius was said to have been the nephew of Bishop Suavaricus. Around 732, he was arrested by Charles Martel (c. 732), and exiled, first to Cologne and then to Saint-Trond. He died six years later. Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1417-1419. Duchesne, pp. 462-463, no. 31.
  29. ^ Deotimius: Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1419. Duchesne, p. 463, no. 35.
  30. ^ Theodulfus: Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1419-1423. Duchesne, p. 463, no. 36.
  31. ^ Jonas wrote a treatise against the Iconoclasts, also a treatise on the Christian life, and a book on the duties of kings. For these texts see: J.P. Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina, (in Latin) Vol. CVI (Paris 1864), pp. 117-394; for the latter: Jonas d'Orléans, Le Métier de roi. ed. A. Dubreucq. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1995 [Sources Chretiennes, No. 407]. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1423-1424. Duchesne, p. 463, no. 37.
  32. ^ Arnulfus died in December 1003. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1429-1430.
  33. ^ Fulco (I): Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1430-1431.
  34. ^ Theodericus (Thierry): Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1431-1433.
  35. ^ Odolricus: Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1434-1437.
  36. ^ Johannes: Gallia christiana VIII, p. 1441.
  37. ^ Sanctio was sent to Rome, and ordained a priest by Pope Gregory VII in 1079. He was elected and deposed in 1096. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1441-1443.
  38. ^ Jean, Archdeacon of Orléans was elected bishop on 28 December 1096, in proceedings which were denounced as simonical and intrusive. He was consecrated on 1 March 1098. He died on 4 May 1135. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1443-1448.
  39. ^ (H)elias was consecrated a bishop by Pope Innocent II on 15 April 1137. He was deposed by Pope Eugenius III in 1146, for accepting money to consecrate a church. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1448-1450.
  40. ^ Bishop Manassas died on 28 September (or 26 October) 1185. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1450-1455.
  41. ^ Henri was the son of Count Robert of Dreux, the brother of King Louis VII of France; he was also the brother of Bishop Philip of Beauvais. Henri died on 25 April 1198, during a trip to Rome, where he hope to receive aid in releasing his brother Bishop Philip who had been imprisoned by King Richard I of England. Gallia christiana VIII, pp. 1455-1457.
  42. ^ Hugues: Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 118.
  43. ^ Manasses: Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 118.
  44. ^ Philippe de Joue: Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 118.
  45. ^ Philip was transferred to the diocese of Bourges on 10 March 1236. He died on 9 January 1261. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1464-1465. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 118, 138.
  46. ^ Guillaume: Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1465-1467. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 118.
  47. ^ Pierre de Mornay was appointed Bishop of Auxerre on 4 February 1296, by Pope Boniface VIII. He died on 29 May 1306. Eubel I, pp. 118, 120.
  48. ^ Ferricus: Gallia christiana VII, p. 1470.
  49. ^ Bishop Roger was transferred to the diocese of Limoges on 17 January 1328. In 1343, he was transferred to the archdiocese of Bourges. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1472-1473. Eubel I, pp. 118, 301
  50. ^ Jean was the son of Hugues, Lord of Conflans and Gizencourt. He had been abbot of the monastery of S. Medard in Soissons. As bishop-elect, he made his engagements with the papal treasury on 26 January 1328. He ceased his episcopate on 15 April 1349. Gallia christiana VII, p. 1474. Eubel I, p. 118.
  51. ^ Philippe made his arrangements with the papal treasury on 8 June 1349, but died while still bishop-elect, on 7 August 1349. Gallia christiana VII, p. 1474. Eubel I, p. 118.
  52. ^ John Carmichael of Douglasdale (Jean de St Michel), a Scot by birth, was a Doctor in utroque iure and a canon of the cathedral of Orléans. He was a supporter of Jeanne d'Arc, and participated in the coronation of King Charles VII of France at Reims on 17 July 1429. He participated in the Council of Basel in 1433. David Hume, The history of the house of Douglas and Angus, Volume I (Edinburgh: E. L. Hunter, 1743), p. 244. J.H. Baxter, "A Scottish Bishop of Orleans," in: The Scots Magazine Vol. 11 (Dundee: John Lang 1929), pp. 241-250. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1477-1478. Eubel I, p. 118; II, p. 99.
  53. ^ Guillaume was appointed by Pope Eugenius IV on 21 July 1438. He was trasnferred to the diocese of Agde on 9 January 1439. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1477-1478. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 111.
  54. ^ Reginald was Archbishop of Reims and Chancellor of the King of France. He was appointed to administer the diocese of Orléans by Pope Eugenius IV on 9 Jan 1439. He was named a cardinal on 18 December 1439. He died on 4 Apr 1444. Gallia christiana VII, p. 1478. Honoré Fisque, La France pontificale. Metropole de Reims (Paris: E. Repos 1864), pp. 139-143. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, pp. 7, no. 4; 111.
  55. ^ Jean de Gué had been Cantor in the cathedral Chapter of Orléans. He was named by Eugenius IV on 20 April 1444. He died on 7 October 1447. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1478-1479. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 111.
  56. ^ Pierre Bureau: (20 Nov 1447 Appointed – 10 Dec 1451 Appointed, Bishop of Béziers). Gallia christiana VII, p. 1479. Eubel II, p. 111.
  57. ^ Jean was Patriarch of Alexandria and Archbishop of Narbonne, and was assigned the diocese of Orléans in commendam. He died shortly thereafter, never having visited the diocese. Gallia christiana VII, p. 1479. Eubel II, pp. 96, 111, 220.
  58. ^ Thibault had been archdeacon of Orleans. Gallia christiana VII, pp. 1479-1480. Eubel II, p. 111.
  59. ^ Brilhac: (3 Nov 1473 Appointed – 22 Dec 1504 Appointed, Archbishop of Aix) Eubel II, p. 111.
  60. ^ Christophe had been Bishop of Aix (1500–1504). On 19 January 1504, he was appointed bishop of Orléans. On 3 July (or 4 February) 1514, he was appointed Archbishop of Tours by Pope Leo X. He died on 31 July 1520. Eubel III, pp. 102, 124, 321.
  61. ^ Germain had been a canon of Bourges, and then Bishop of Cahors (1509–1514). He was appointed bishop of Orléans on 3 July 1514. He died on 8 March 1520. Eubel III, pp. 124, 160.
  62. ^ Jean d'Orléans had already been archbishop of Toulouse (1503–1533). He was granted a second diocese, that of Orléans, on 26 June 1521, by Pope Leo X. He died on 24 September 1533. Eubel III, p. 124.
  63. ^ L'Aubespine: (15 Mar 1604 Appointed – 15 Aug 1630 Died) Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 102 with note 2.
  64. ^ Netz: (27 Jan 1631 Appointed – 20 Jan 1646 Died) Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 102 with note 3.
  65. ^ Elbène: (21 Jan 1647 Appointed – 20 May 1665 Died). Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 102 with note 4.
  66. ^ Coislin: (29 Mar 1666 Confirmed – 5 Feb 1706 Died). Jean, p. 290. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 102 with note 5.
  67. ^ Fleuriau: (15 Nov 1706 Confirmed – 9 Jun 1733 Died)
  68. ^ Nicolas de Paris: (9 Jun 1733 Succeeded – 10 Jan 1754 Resigned)
  69. ^ Montmorency: (14 Jan 1754 Confirmed – 28 Feb 1758 Resigned)
  70. ^ Jarente de La Bruyère (13 Mar 1758 Confirmed – 28 May 1788 Died)
  71. ^ Jarente de Senas d’Orgeval (28 May 1788 Succeeded – 22 Nov 1793 Resigned). Pisani, pp. 72-74.
  72. ^ Jarente resigned, apostasized, married, moved to Paris and became a librarian. Pisani, p. 73.
  73. ^ Bernier was born at Daon-sur-Mayenne (Anjou), and held a doctorate in theology. In 1790, he was named curé of the parish of Saint-Germain-en-Laud, but the hostility of the Jacobins forced him to leave. He returned at the outbreak of the revolt in the Vendée in 1793, and became one of its leaders, successfully negotiating a peace with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. He helped Napoleon to negotiate the Concordat of 1801 with the Papacy, and was one of its signatories. He was named bishop of Orléans by Napoleon on 9 April 1802, canonically instituted on 10 April, and consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara, the papal legate, on 11 April. In 1803, he reinstituted the Feast of Saint Jeanne d'Arc. In 1804, he helped negotiate the terms for the crowning of the Emperor Napoleon I. He died on 1 October 1806, of a cancerous stomach tumor. Cochard, pp. 426-427. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 96.
  74. ^ Rousseau had been bishop of Coutance from 1802 until his appointment to the diocese of Orléans on 22 March 1807. He died on 7 October 1810. Cochard, p. 428. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 96, 160.
  75. ^ Sede vacante; During most of this time, Pope Pius VII was a prisoner of Napoleon, living under guard either at Fontainbleau or at Navona; he refused to carry out any papal functions under such conditions. Cochard, p. 428.
  76. ^ Varicourt was nominated by King Louis XVIII on 8 August 1817, but was not preconised (approved) by Pope Pius VII until 24 August 1819. He died on 9 December 1822, at the age of 67. Cochard, p. 429. Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 96.
  77. ^ Beauregard had been Vicar-General of Luçcon. He was nominated bishop of Orléans on 23 January 1823, by King Louis XVIII, and approved by Pope Pius VII on 10 March 1823. On 22 January 1839, at the age of 89, he submitted his resignation, though he retained administration of the diocese until the arrival of his successor. He died in Poitiers on 27 November 1841. Memoires de J. Brumauld de Beauregard précédés de sa vie, écrite sur des notes et des documents authentiques, (in French) (Poitiers: Saurin), Volume 1 (1842). Volume 2 (1842). Cochard, pp. 429-431. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 96.
  78. ^ Morlat: 10 March 1839 Appointed. Named Archbishop of Tours on 28 Jun 1842. Named a cardinal on 7 March 1853, by Pope Pius IX. Named archbishop of Paris on 26 January 1857, and confirmed by Pius IX on 19 March 1857. He died on 29 December 1862. Cochard, p. 431. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 96, 381; VIII, pp. 51, 441.
  79. ^ Fayet was nominated by King Louis Philippe on 10 October 1842, and approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 27 January 1843. He was consecrated on 26 February by the Archbishop of Paris, Archbishop Denis-Auguste Affre. He died on 4 April 1849. Cochard, pp. 431-433. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, pp. 96.
  80. ^ Dupanloup: (16 Apr 1849 Appointed – 11 Oct 1878 Died). Cochard, pp. 433-439. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, p. 132.
  81. ^ Coullié (Couillié) was named titular Bishop of Sidon and coadjutor bishop of Orléans (nominated by the French government on 12 October 1878) by Pope Pius IX on 29 September 1876. He was consecrated bishop of Sidon on 19 November 1876. He succeeded to the episcopal throne on the death of Bishop Dupanloup on 11 October 1878. On 14 June 1893, he was appointed Archbishop of Lyon, and was named a cardinal in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. He died on 12 September 1912. Cochard, pp. 439-440. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, pp. 53, 133, 354, 518. Harris M. Lentz III, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century. A Biographical Dictionary ( 2015), p. 51.
  82. ^ (29 Jan 1894 Appointed – 23 Sep 1926 Died. Cochard, pp. 440-442.
  83. ^ (20 Dec 1926 Appointed – 28 Mar 1951 Died)
  84. ^ Lustiger: (10 Nov 1979 Appointed – 31 Jan 1981 Appointed, Archbishop of Paris). Lustiger became a Cardinal in 1983 and Member of the Académie française, Fauteuil no. 4 (1995–2007). Martin Bräuer, Handbuch der Kardinäle, 1846-2012, (in German) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2014), pp. 16, 496, 663. Henri Tincq, Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger. Le cardinal prophète. Paris : Éditions Grasset, 2012.
  85. ^ Daucourt had been coadjutor bishop and then bishop of Troyes (1991–1998). He was appointed bishop of Orléans on 2 July 1998. On 18 June 2002 Bishop Daucourt was appointed Bishop of Nanterre. He resigned the bishopric of Nanterre on 14 November 2013, at the age of 72.

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