Ancient Diocese of Vienne

The diocese of Vienne existed as a Church Province of the third century to the Napoleonic Concordat with the Pope of 1801. Episcopal see was the city of Vienne in France, in today Isère.

History

The diocese was created from the Roman province of Gallia Viennensis and certainly existed already 314 430 the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese.

As the 450 dioceses were re-divided by Pope Leo I in what is now southern France, Vienne was the suffragan dioceses of Geneva, Grenoble, Valence, Tarentaise. With Tarentaise kindled a lasting several centuries fighting over the privileges of the Archbishop of Vienne. To 464 resulted in a dispute with the Archbishop Mamertus Pope Hilary, as he himself began a new bishop in the. He was sharply criticized for it by the Pope.

794 the diocese of Tarentaise was raised to an archbishopric and a church province with the suffragan Aosta, customs and Maurienne. However, the Archbishop of Vienne retained the privilege to consecrate the bishops of these dioceses.

The diocese of Vienne belonged since the mid-5th century, the Burgundian kingdom, since the 9th century Kingdom of Burgundy, and formed from 1033 (next to the Kingdoms of Italy and Germany ), one of the three main parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Since that time, the Archbishops of Vienne were in secular terms vassals of the Roman- German Emperor: in 1023 the Archbishop of Vielle was invested with the county of Vienne, which at that time accounted for the majority of the area between Lyon and the Alps main ridge. Two areas have been assigned by the Archbishop as an after fief: Albon in the south ( from which later developed the Dauphiné ) and Maurienne in the north ( to the Savoy was later). Albon received Guigues I., Maurienne Umberto I went to with the white hands. It remained a county Vienne smaller in size, which was located at least since 1085 in the hands of the Counts of Mâcon. The feudal nexus of the other two fief was lost in the 12th century.

In 1112 the ban was pronounced on the occasion of a council in Vienne Emperor Henry V because he claimed the right of investiture. 1311-13 the Council of Vienne was held on the lifted the Knights Templar and the Corpus Christi has been confirmed as a religious holiday.

Pope Calixtus II in 1120 decided, who had been archbishop of Vienne since 1088 that the bishoprics Grenoble, Valence, St. should be the, Viviers, Geneva and Maurienne suffragan of Vienne. In addition, the Archbishop of Tarentaise should obey the Archbishop of Vienne, although the former was himself Metropolitan and suffragans had. The Archbishop of Vienne, the primacy of the ecclesiastical provinces of Bourges, Narbonne, Bordeaux, Aix, and Embrun also was awarded, and since some of these seats had already Primatialstatus transferred to the Archbishop of Vienne also the title of " Primate of Primates ".

Middle of the 15th century was the Dauphiné to France. Even the Archbishop of Vienne in 1448 recognized the suzerainty of France, which the archdiocese withdrew from the Holy Roman Empire.

1801 Archdiocese of Vienne was lifted. Its territory was divided among the dioceses of Grenoble and Valence.