Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux

Ecclesiastical Province of Bordeaux

The Archdiocese of Bordeaux ( - Bazas ) (Latin: Archidioecesis burdigalensis ( - Bazensis ) ), until 1937 Archdiocese of Bordeaux, is located in the southwest of France Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

The diocese of Bordeaux was built in the year 314, the first bishop was Oriental. The Holy dolphin ( 380-404 ), Amandus ( 404-410 and 420-432 ) and Severin of Cologne ( 410) acted as bishops in Bordeaux. In the 5th century Bordeaux was occupied by the Visigoths, and shortly afterwards by the Franks. 732 devastated Abd al-Rahman during his campaign the city. In the 9th century, the Normans invaded and plundered the city again. Only after that Bordeaux began to recover. Gérard d' Angoulême ( de Blaye ) was from 1131 to 1135 became the first Archbishop of the diocese.

The old Romanesque Cathedral Church followed the Gothic Cathedral of Saint -André, which was built in the 11th to 14th centuries. It has a single nave and strikingly decorated wide with a richly decorated with statues of two 50 m high towers flanking the portal and the bell tower Peyberland.

1305 archbishop Bertrand de Goth was elected as Clement V pope. In March 1309 he appointed as the new seat of the Avignon popes (see papacy Avignonesisches ). Other notable archbishops were François de Aguzzoni Transportation Hugo (1389-1412) and Jean du Bellay ( 1544-1553 ). In his 30 -year tenure Henry de Bethune worked in the spirit of the Tridentine Church Reform.

The Archdiocese was also affected by the turmoil of the French Revolution, the cathedral was converted into a barn. Archbishop Jerome Marie Champion de Cicé ( since 1781 ) has been urged by the Constitutional bishops Pacareau Pierre and Dominique Lacombe for resignation, but these refused and emigrated. With the signing of the Concordat of 1801 by Napoleon and Cardinal Consalvi as a representative of Pope Pius VII came Charles -François d' Aviau Du Bois de Sanzay ( 1802-1826 ) in the Office of the Archbishop. He was followed by Jean -Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus Madelain Anne (1826-1836), François- Auguste -Ferdinand Donnet (1836-1882) and Aimé -Victor- François Guilbert ( 1883-1889 ). Archbishop Victor Lécot (1890-1908) was for his social commitment, eg with the creation of workers' kitchens, and known its commitment to the working class. His successor Pierre -Paulin Andrieu (1909-1935) has gone down in history as the French representative of the strict anti-modernism. Under Maurice Feltin (1935-1949) on November 20, 1937, the renamed Archdiocese of Bordeaux ( - Bazas ); the diocese Bazas was lifted in 1802. Feltin, the then Archbishop of Paris was followed by Cardinal Paul Richaud (1950-1968), Marius Maziers (1968-1989) and Cardinal Pierre Eyt ( 1989-2001 ). Current Archbishop since 21 December 2001, Jean -Pierre Ricard, who was appointed in 2006 to the Cardinal.

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