Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims

Ecclesiastical province of Reims

The Archdiocese of Reims (Latin Archidioecesis Remensis ) is located in the northeast of France Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church located in Reims. The diocese comprises the arrondissement Reims and the Département des Ardennes.

History

The area around Reims was Christianised in the late Roman period and explains the city became a bishopric. The first bishop Sixtus of Reims was the legend, a Roman and a disciple of the Apostle Peter, who appointed him the first Archbishop of Reims and had sent in the year 57. Supposedly Sixtus died on September 1 67. They would, however, act only a fiction that postulates a direct succession from the apostles. Probably Sixtus lived about the middle of the 3rd century.

To 401, a church was built by Bishop Nicasus; the later saints came the storm of vandals over the city in the year 406 died. In the city's cathedral Clovis was baptized by Bishop Remigius 497-499, which was critical for the structure of the Frankish Empire. The importance of the city, whose bishop Tilpin ( 748-795 ) became the Archbishop dignity, reflected in the fact that she was a part of the kingdom in the Merovingian kingdom divisions residence. In the 10th century the Archbishop of Reims Adalbero was instrumental in that the French reign passed from the house of the Carolingians to Capetians. He attended, together with Gerbert of Aurillac, also make sure that the city and its cathedral school an intellectual center of the early Middle Ages was. 1023 received the title of Count of the Archbishop of Reims.

The Reims Cathedral was started according to the plans Roberts de Coucy in 1212, under the Archbishop Alberic de Humbert and up to the towers that had received only two-thirds of the projected height of 120 meters, completed in the 14th century. Since 1179 here all the French kings were ( with the exception of Henry IV and Louis XVIII. ) Crowned.

The development of the city of Reims and its bourgeoisie led to disputes with the Archbishop, which were completed in 1361 by the King, by bringing the city under his rule. The archbishop had to settle with the pure title, now the Duke of Reims, but also made ​​him one of the five spiritual peer of France.

Archbishop Regnault de Chartres was chancellor of France 1425-1445 and represented Charles VII in the negotiations on the Treaty of Arras ( 1435 ).

In the Huguenot wars city and Archbishop were on the side of the Catholic League, but submitted to 1590 King Henry IV

Of 1574 ( as a gift of Cardinal Charles of Lorraine ) to the French Revolution was in the Cathedral of Reims, with sheet gold plated and decorated with precious stones called Reims Gospel Book, on which the kings swore an oath.

1777 Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand -Périgord was ordained archbishop of Reims. 1789 Talleyrand was one of the representatives of the clergy in the Estates General. 1790 Talleyrand went into exile, who spent the emigré successively in Aachen, Weimar and Brunswick. Talleyrand, who rejected the resolution of the Archdiocese in the Concordat of 1801 and the allocation to the diocese of Meaux and Metz, stayed until after the Bourbon restoration in 1815 in his office, which he completed only on 8 November 1816. During the " Hundred Days ," Napoleon's brief return to power, followed Talleyrand, a supporter of the Bourbon monarchy, Louis XVIII. into exile in Ghent. On July 28, 1817 Talleyrand was appointed cardinal and on October 1, 1817, he became Archbishop of Paris.

With the Concordat of 1817 had been agreed, the Archdiocese of Reims to build new. Jean -Charles de Coucy was appointed at the same time on October 1, 1817 the new archbishop of Reims. The official restoration of the Archbishopric was 6 October 1822. Bishoprics The Amiens and Soissons were in 1821, Châlons -sur -Marne and Reims in 1822 Beauvais assigned as suffragan sees. During the First World War became Cardinal Louis Luçon ( Archbishop 1906-1930 ) wide notoriety when he pointedly stayed in Reims in anticipation of the destruction of its cathedral.

He was succeeded as Archbishop:

  • Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard (1930-1940)
  • Louis -Augustin Marmottin (1940-1960)
  • François Marty (1960-1968)
  • Jean -Marie Maury (1968-1972)
  • Jacques Ménager (1973-1988)
  • Jean Balland (1988-1995)
  • Defois Gérard (1995-1998)

Current Archbishop since July 20, 1999 Thierry Jordan.

Vicar general Friar Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens Roman Catholic Diocese of Beauvais Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes Arrondissement of Reims Ardennes (department) Francia Adalberon (archbishop of Reims) Carolingian dynasty Pope Sylvester II Henry IV of France Charles VII of France Congress of Arras Braunschweig Jean Marie Balland Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dijon Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montpellier Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges Roman Catholic Diocese of Agen Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajaccio Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux Roman Catholic Diocese of Belley-Ars Roman Catholic Diocese of Blois Roman Catholic Diocese of Cahors Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances Roman Catholic Diocese of Digne Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes Roman Catholic Diocese of Laval Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Havre Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoges Roman Catholic Diocese of Meaux Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz Roman Catholic Diocese of Montauban Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanterre Roman Catholic Diocese of Nevers Roman Catholic Diocese of Nice Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers Roman Catholic Diocese of Pontoise Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper Roman Catholic Diocese of Rodez Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Brieuc Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Flour Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulle Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles Roman Catholic Diocese of Viviers
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