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Archbishop Of Marseille
The Archdiocese of Marseille (Latin: Archidioecesis Massiliensis; French: Archidiocèse de Marseille) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The archepiscopal see is in the city of Marseille, and the diocese comprises the arrondissement of Marseille, a subdivision of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

History

The Church of Marseille is said to have been erected in the first century by St. Lazarus, the young man mentioned in the Gospels who had been raised from the dead by Jesus Christ himself. His family migrated to Provence at some point after the Resurrection.

Revolution

The diocese of Marseille was abolished during the French Revolution, under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790). Its territory was subsumed into the new diocese, called the 'Bouches-du-Rhone', which was part of the Metropolitanate called the 'Metropole des Côtes de la Méditerranée (which included ten new 'departements'). The electors of 'Bouches-du-Rhone' met at Aix beginning on 19 February 1791, and on 23 February elected Abbé Charles Benoît Roux, curé of Eyragues near Arles. He was consecrated in Paris by Constitutional Bishops Gobel, Miroudot and Gouttes. He very much enjoyed the social life of Marseille, but after the execution of Louis XVI on 21 January 1793, Roux joined the counter-revolutionaries. When Marseille was occupied by troops of the Convention, he fled to Aix. He was arrested and imprisoned on 20 September; he was taken to Marseille, where he faced a tribunal of the Revolution which condemned him to death. He was executed on 5 April 1794.

An archdiocese

The diocese was raised to the level of an Archdiocese on 31 January 1948 by Pope Pius XII. The suffragans of the archdiocese are: the Archdiocese of Aix, the Diocese of Ajaccio, the Archdiocese of Avignon, the Diocese of Digne, the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, the Diocese of Gap, and the Diocese of Nice.

In recent times the Archdiocese of Marseille has suffered from significant shortage of priests, despite having a reported Catholic population of over 700,000 not a single priest was ordained in 2018 or 2019.

Bishops and Archbishops of Marseille

to 1000

1000–1500

  • Pons (1008–1073)
  • Raymond (1073 – 7 November 1122)
  • Raymond de Soliers (1122 – 26 April 1151)
  • Pierre (1151 – 2 April 1170)
  • Fulco de Thorame (1170 – 31 March 1188)
  • Rainier (1188–1214)
  • Pierre de Montlaur (7 October 1217 – 29 August 1229)
  • Benoît d'Aligan, O.S.B. (1229–1267)
  • Raymond of Nîmes (23 December 1267 – 15 July 1288)
  • Durand de Trésémines (17 April 1289 – 3 August 1312)
  • Raymond Robaudi (1 January 1313 – 12 September 1319) (transferred to Archbishopric of Embrun)
  • Gasbert de la Val (18 September 1319 – 26 August 1323) (transferred to Arles)
  • Aymar Amiel (26 August 1323 – 23 December 1333)
  • Jean Artaudi (10 January 1334 – 1335, after July 7)
  • Joannes Gasqui (13 October 1335 – 10 September 1344)
  • Robert de Mandagot (13 September 1344 – 1358)
  • Hugh d'Arpajon (4 February 1359 – 31 May 1361)
  • Pierre Fabri (1361, June–September?)
  • Guillaume Sudre, O.P. (27 August 1361 – 1366)
  • [ Philippe de Cabassole ] (1366–1368) Administrator
  • Guillaume de la Voute (9 December 1368 – 1 July 1379) (transferred to Valence-et-Die, by Clement VII)
  • Aymar de La Voute (1379-1395)
  • Benoît II (1397-1418)
  • Paul de Sade (1418-1420)
  • Avignon Nicolaï (1420-1421)
  • André Boutaric (1433)
  • Barthélémy Rocalli (1433-1445)
  • Louis de Glandevès (1445)
  • Nicola de Brancas (1445-1466)
  • Jean Alardeau (1466-1496)
  • Ogier d'Anglure (1496-1506)

1500 to 1700

1700 to 1948

[1801–1817] Diocese of Marseille suppressed, by the Concordat of 1801.

Archbishops of Marseille since 1948

See also