Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun

Located in Verdun France diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Virodunensis ) comes from the 4th century. The Count rights acquired in the second half of the 10th century over Verdun confirmed Emperor Otto III. 997 final.

History

Had, which belongs to the Trier diocese Metropolitan Association in the year 1000 a circumference of about 3,000 km ² and covered almost entirely with the county Verdun. During this time, the diocese could already have 4 Archidiakonate with nine deaneries.

The cathedral chapter, which was headed by a provost, had the office of primicerius. This could soar to the most important man after the bishop in the Middle Ages. However, the office fell and was abolished in 1385. Since then, led by the Dean the chapter.

Plague and war trains left the diocese in the 14th century, losing most of its population, so that it became economically in decline. Between 1457 and 1548, none of the bishops held his residence in the diocese. Just at this time it fell into the power play between France, Burgundy, Lorraine and the Emperor. In addition to that, the Pope, the Vienna Concordat did not want to apply to the Diocese of Verdun. His appointments played the Prince-Bishopric of the Duke of Lorraine in the hands and led to a further distancing between the Archbishopric and the Empire. The Kingdom of France claimed since the 16th century not only more and more rights, but built in the 1st quarter of the 17th century in the episcopal city and a citadel. When the bishop protested and the royal court presidents excommunicated he was taken away to Paris and seized his earnings.

The Peace of Westphalia ( 1648) left the diocese finally go over to France.

After the diocese of Verdun was secularized in the course of the French Revolution, it came on 6 October 1822 a re-establishment. Detached from the Diocese of Nancy is now comprised an area of ​​6216 km ² and is owned by the Metropolitan Association of Besançon.

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