Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise

Archdiocese of Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and Tarentaise Archidioecesis Camberiensis, Maruianensis et Tarantasiensis Archidiocèse de Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne et Tarentaise
Chambéry Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Lyon
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area	7,460 km2 (2,880 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 454,000 (est.) 399,425 (92.1%)
Parishes	141
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	United: 26 April 1966
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis de Sales in Chambéry
Co-cathedral	Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Co-Cathedral of St. Peter in Moûtiers
Patron saint	Saint Francis de Sales Saint John the Baptist Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Secular priests	75 40 (Religious Orders) 30 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Thibault Verny
Metropolitan Archbishop	Olivier de Germay
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Archdiocese of Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and Tarentaise (Latin: Archidioecesis Camberiensis, Maruianensis et Tarantasiensis; French: Archidiocèse de Chambéry, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne et Tarentaise) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. The archepiscopal see is Chambéry Cathedral, located in the city of Chambéry. The archdiocese encompasses the department of Savoie, in the Region of Rhône-Alpes.

The diocese was created in 1779, from the Diocese of Grenoble, after a complicated earlier history. It became an archdiocese in 1817, though at that point it was not within French territory.

History

In 1467, Pope Paul II erected a chapter of canons in the ducal chapel in the Chateau de Chambéry,^[1] built for the relic which became known as the Shroud of Turin (Santo Sudario) by Amadeus IX of Savoy,^[2] and the Duchess Yolande of France,^[3] The Chapter of twelve canons, headed by a dean, a cantor, and a treasurer, was directly subject to the Holy See. Pope Paul's successor Pope Sixtus IV, on 21 May 1474, issued a bull, "Ex supernae providentia", which assigned the territory of the deanery of Savoy in the diocese of Grenoble to the Chapter of the chapel of the chateau. He also created a new dignity in the Chapter, that of the archdeacon.^[4]

The purported relic known as the Holy Shroud of Christ was kept at Chambéry until 1598, in which year Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, had it transported to Turin, where St. Charles Borromeo wished to venerate it.

On 6 June 1515, Pope Leo X published a papal bull making the deanery an archbishopric, and giving Duke Charles of Savoy the right to nominate the archbishop, subject to papal approval.^[5] But Francis I of France, the Archbishop of Lyon, and the Bishop of Grenoble all objected, and on 22 September 1516, Pope Leo was obliged to cancel the establishment of Chambéry as an archdiocese.^[6] It was only in 1775 that this deanery was separated from the Diocese of Grenoble by Pope Pius VI, who, in 1779, created it a bishopric with the see at Chambéry.^[7]

The Duchy of Savoy, whose sovereign was also the King of Sardinia, had thenceforth four bishoprics: Chambéry, the diocese of Saint-Jean de Maurienne, the diocese of Tarentaise, and Geneva (whose bishop, excluded from the city of Geneva by the Protestants, resided at the diocese of Annecy).

French Revolution

In October, 1792, the commissaries to the Convention formed the constitutional Diocese of Mont-Blanc, with Annecy as the see and Lyons as the metropolitan. The four Savoyard dioceses were suppressed. The election of a new constitutional bishop was ordered.^[8] On 8 February 1793, they published a proclamation concerning the religious affairs of the constitutional diocese, which was in fact the local application of the provisions of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of 1789. Each member of the clergy was required to swear an oath to the Constitution or be deported from French territory; an exception was made for clerics over sixty years of age. Bishop Conseil refused the oath. He was 77, and therefore escaped deportation, but was placed under house arrest in his episcopal palace, where he died on 29 September 1793.^[9] Unaware of the bishop's death, Pope Pius VI wrote a letter on 5 October 1793, commiserating with and encouraging the cathedral Chapter of Chambéry in their sufferings, and warnihg them of the dangers of schism.^[10]

Under severe pressure from First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte,^[11] Pope Pius VII issued the bull "Qui Christi Domini vices" on 29 November 1801. The bull first abolished all the metropolitan archdioces and dioceses in France, and then recreated fifty of them, arranged in ten metropolitan ecclesiastical districts; the others were suppressed. In the metropolitanate of Lyon, the pope created suffragan dioceses of ^[12]

The Concordat of 1802 created a Diocese of Chambéry and Geneva, and made it a suffragan of the archdiocese of Lyons.^[13]

Restoration

The Bull "Beati Petri," signed by Pope Pius VII on 17 July 1817, made Chambéry, which had been assigned to the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861) by the Congress of Vienna, the seat of an archdiocese, with the diocese of Aosta as a suffragan.^[14] The Dioceses of Annecy (re-established in 1822), Saint-Jean-Maurienne, and Tarentaise (in 1825), soon also became suffragans of Chambéry. After the annexation of Savoy to France, in 1860, this condition continued, except that the Diocese of Aosta was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of Turin.

The Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, founded in 1135, is one of the burial places of the House of Savoy.^[15] The church of Notre-Dame de Myans (antedating the twelfth century),^[16] where Francis de Sales officiated; and Notre-Dame de l'Aumone at Rumilly (thirteenth century), whither Francis I of France went as a pilgrim, are still places of pilgrimage.

The Sisters of St. Joseph, an order devoted to teaching and charitable work, established a house, which became a mother-house, at Chambéry in 1812.^[17]

On 16 December 2002 the Archdiocese of Chambéry became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon and ceased to be a Metropolitan.

Bishop

• 1780–1793 Michel Conseil^[18]

Archbishops

• 1802–1805, René de Moustier de Mérinville^[19]
• 1805–1823, Irénée-Yves Desolle^[20]
• 1824–1827, François-Marie Bigex^[21]
• 1828–1839, Antoine Martinet^[22]
• 1840–1873, Cardinal Alexis Billiet^[23]
• 1873–1880, Pierre-Athanase Pichenot, also bishop of Tarbes
• 1881–1893, François-Albert Leuillieux, also bishop of Carcassonne
• 1803–1907, François Hautin, also bishop of Évreux
• April–August, 1907, Gustave-Adolphe de Pélacot, also bishop of Troyes
• 1907–1914, Cardinal François-Virgile Dubillard, also bishop of Quimper-Cornouailles
• 1915–1936, Dominique Castellan, also bishop of Digne
• 1937–1947, Pierre-Marie Durieux, also bishop of Viviers
• 1947–1966 Louis-Marie-Fernand de Bazelaire de Ruppierre
• 1966–1985, André Bontemps, also bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
• 1985–2000, Claude Feidt, also archbishop of Aix
• 2000–2008, Laurent Ulrich, also archbishop of Lille
• 2009–2022, Philippe Ballot

See also

• Cathédrale Saint-François-de-Sales de Chambéry
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
• Catholic Church in France

References

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi (in Latin). Vol. V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi (in Latin). Vol. VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1968). Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. VII (1800–1846). Monasterii: Libr. Regensburgiana.
• Remigius Ritzler; Pirminus Sefrin (1978). Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. VIII (1846–1903). Il Messaggero di S. Antonio.
• Pięta, Zenon (2002). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. IX (1903–1922). Padua: Messagero di San Antonio. ISBN 978-88-250-1000-8.

Studies

• Billiet, Alexis (1865). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique du diocèse de Chambéry. (in French). Chambéry: F. Puthod, 1865.
• Hauréau, Jean-Barthélemy (1865). Gallia christiana. (in Latin). vol. XVI, Paris 1865.
• Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard.
• Karmin, Otto (1920). Le transfert de Chambéry à Fribourg de l'Evêché de Genève (1815-1819): recueil de documents tirés des Archives suisses. (in French). Genève: Impr. centrale, 1920.
• Jussieu, A. de (1868). La Sainte-Chapelle du château de Chambéry. (in French and Latin). Chambéry: Perrin, 1868.
• Lovie, Jacques (1979). Les Diocèses de Chambéry, Tarentaise, Maurienne. (in French). Paris: Editions Beauchesne, 1979. [Histoire des Diocèses de France. Volume 11].
• Pelletier, Victor (1864). Des chapitres cathédraux en France devant l'Église et devant l'État. (in French). Paris: J. Lecoffre, 1864.

External links

• Goyau, Georges. "Chambéry (Camberium)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. Accessed 23 February 2024.

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