ARCHDIOCESE OF BOURGES

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The 'Archdiocese of Bourges' is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Since 2000 it is led by Archbishop Hubert Barbier. Since 2002 it has lost its metropolitical function, its province having already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had once largely corresponded.

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History

List of Bishops

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.

List of Bishops

★ Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)

★ Sevitianus

★ Aetherius

★ Thecretus

★ Marcellus (all prior to 337)

★ Palladius (377-384)

★ Leo (453)

★ Simplicius (472-480)

★ Desideratus (541-550)

★ Probianus

★ Felix of Bourges

★ Remedius

★ Sulpicius I. of Bourges (all in the second half of the sixth century)

★ Austregisilus (612-624)

★ Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624-644)

★ David (793-802)

★ Agilulfus (c. 820-840)

★ Raoul of Turenne 840-866

★ Frotharius (870-c.893)

★ Alberich of Reims (1136-1141)

★ Guillaume de Donjeon (1200-09)

★ Aegidius a Columnis (1298-1316)

★ Pierre d'Estaing

★ Jean Coeur

★ Andrew Forman 1513

★ François de Tournon

★ Renaud de Beaune 1581

★ André Fremiot

★ Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur

★ Georges-Louis Phélypeaux

★ Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy, 1802-1811

★ Guillaume Aubin de Villèle 1824

★ Louis-Ernest Dubois

★ Louis-Joseph Fillon

★ Hubert Barbier (2000-)