Roman Catholic Diocese Of Saint-Claude
The Diocese of Saint-Claude (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Claudii; French: Diocèse de Saint-Claude) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese corresponds in territory to the department of Jura. It was created in 1742, as a smaller area, mostly consisting of some parishes previously controlled by the Abbey of Saint-Claude. Under the Concordat of 1802 the diocese was suppressed and its territory included in the Archdiocese of Besançon; in 1822 it was again made an independent diocese.
The Diocese of Saint-Claude is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon, and formerly a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Its cathedra is Saint-Claude Cathedral, in the episcopal see of Saint-Claude, Jura.
Bishops
- Joseph de Méallet de Fargues, 1742–1785
- Jean-Baptiste Chabot, 1785–1801
- François Xavier Moyse (François-Xavier Moïse), 1791–1793, constitutional bishop
- Vacant
- Antoine Jacques de Chamon, 1823–1851
- Jean Pierre Mabile, 1851–1858, also Bishop of Versailles
- Charles Jean Fillion, 1858–1862, also Bishop of Le Mans
- Louis Anne Nogret, 1862–1880
- César-Joseph Marpot, 1880–1898
- François-Alexandre Maillet, 1898–1925
- Rambert-Irénée Faure, 1926–1948
- Claude-Constant Marie Flusin, 1948–1975
- Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 1975–1994
- Yves François Patenôtre, 1994–2004, also Archbishop of Sens
- Jean-Marie-Henri Legrez, O.P., 2005–2011; named Archbishop of Albi on February 2, 2011
- Vincent Jordy, 2011–2019
- Jean-Luc Gérard Garin, 2020–present