Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges

The Archdiocese of Bourges (Latin: Archidioecesis Bituricensis; French: Archidiocèse de Bourges) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire. Bourges Cathedral stands in the city of Bourges in the department of Cher. Although this is still titled as an Archdiocese, it ceased as a metropolitan see in 2002 and is now a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of Tours.

In 2002 it lost its metropolitan function (and thus the archbishop no longer wears the pallium), its province having ceased to exist (the province had already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had initially corresponded - Albi had been erected as an archbishopric in the medieval context of heresiological conflict; Orléans, Chartres, and Blois - historically dependent on Sens - had been attached to Paris, from which they passed to Bourges in the 1960s). The Archdiocese (also the three above- mentioned sees) is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tours; other dioceses until recently dependent on Bourges are now suffragans of the Clermont-Ferrand Archdiocese. Historical ecclesiastical geography has here thus changed to correspond with France's new regions, much as diocesan and provincial boundaries from Napoleon's Concordat of 1801 onwards changed mainly in accordance with those of the Revolution's départements.

History
The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.

To 600

 * St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
 * Sevitianus
 * Aetherius
 * Thecretus
 * Marcellus (all prior to 337)
 * Saint Viateur (Viator) 337–354
 * : Leothère 354–363
 * : Pauper 363–377
 * Palladius (377–384)
 * : Villice 384–412
 * : Avit 412–431
 * : Saint Pallais II 448–462
 * Leo (453)
 * Euloge 462–469
 * Simplicius (472–480)
 * Saint Tétrade 494–506
 * Rorice 512–?
 * ?–? : Siagre
 * ?–? : Saint Humat : ?–?
 * Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535)) 533–535
 * Saint Honoré II 535–537
 * Saint Arcade 537–549
 * Saint Désiré (549–552)
 * Saint Probien 552–559
 * Saint Félix 560–573
 * Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century)
 * Sulpitius I of Bourges (584–591)
 * Saint Eustase 591–591
 * Saint Apollinaire 591 – † 5 octobre 611

From 600 to 1000

 * Austregisilus (612–624)
 * Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624–644)
 * Saint Florent (647–660)
 * Adon (662–680)
 * Agosène (682–683)
 * Roch (696–736)
 * Sigin (736–761)
 * Landoaire (761–764)
 * Dédoat (764–780)
 * Ségolène (780–785)
 * Saint David (793–802)
 * Bertholan (815–827)
 * Agilulfus (c. 829–840)
 * Raoul of Turenne (840–866)
 * Wulfad (866–876)
 * Frotharius (876–c. 893)
 * Adace (890–900)
 * Madalbert (900–910)
 * Saint Géronce de Déols (910–948)
 * Laune de Déols (948–955)
 * Richard de Blois (955–969)
 * Hugh of Blois (969–985)
 * Dagbert (987–1013)

From 1000 to 1300

 * Gauzlin Capet (1013–1030)


 * Alberich of Reims (1136–1141)
 * Henry de Sully (d. 1200)
 * William of Donjeon (1200–09)
 * Girard de Cros 1209–1218
 * Simon de Sully 1218–1232
 * Philippe Berruyer 1232–1260
 * Jean de Sully 1260–1271
 * Guy de Sully 1276–1280
 * Simon de Beaulieu 1281–1294
 * Gilles de Rome 1295–1316

1300 to 1600

 * Renault de la Porte 1316–1320
 * Guillaume de Brosse 1321–1331
 * Foucaud de Rochechouard 1331–1343
 * Blessed Roger le Fort 1343–1367
 * Pierre d'Estaing 1367–1370
 * Pierre de Cros 1370–1374, became Archbishop of Arles, and cardinal
 * Bertrand de Chenac 1374–1386
 * Jean de Rochechouart 1382–1390
 * Pierre Aimery 1391–1409
 * Guillaume de Boisratier 1409–1421
 * Henry d'Avangour 1421–1446
 * Jean Coeur 1446–1483
 * Pierre Cadoüet 1483–1492
 * Guillaume de Cambray 1492–1505
 * Michel de Bucy 1505–1511
 * Andrew Forman 1513
 * François de Tournon 1526-1537 (elevated to Cardinal in 1530)
 * Renaud de Beaune 1581

1600 to present

 * André Fremiot (1602–1621)
 * Roland Hébert (1622-1638)
 * Pierre d'Hardivilliers (1639-1649)
 * Anne de Lévis de Ventadour (1649-1662)
 * Jean de Montpezat de Carbon (1663-1674)
 * Michel Poncet de La Rivière (1675-1677)
 * Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (1677–1694)
 * Léon Potier de Gesvres (1694-1729)
 * Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld (1729-1757)
 * Georges-Louis Phélypeaux d'Herbault (1757–1787)
 * Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur (1788–1802)
 * Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy (1802–1811)
 * Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Louis des Gallois de La Tour (1817–1820)
 * Jean-Marie Cliquet de Fontenay (1820–1834)
 * Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle (1825–1841)
 * Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont (1842–1859)
 * Alexis-Basile-Alexandre Menjaud (1859–1861)
 * Charles-Amable de la Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais (1861–1879)
 * Jean-Joseph Marchal (1880–1892)
 * Jean-Pierre Boyer (1893–1896)
 * Pierre-Paul Servonnet (1897–1909)
 * Louis-Ernest Dubois (1909–1916), appointed Archbishop of Rouen (Cardinal later that year)
 * Martin-Jérôme Izart (1916–1934)
 * Louis-Joseph Fillon (1934–1943)
 * Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (1943–1969) (Cardinal in 1960)
 * Charles-Marie-Paul Vignancour (1969–1984)
 * Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau (1984–2000)
 * Hubert Barbier (2000–2007)
 * Armand Maillard (2007–2018)
 * Jérôme Daniel Beau (25 July 2018– )

Reference works

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