Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles

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Diocese of Versailles Dioecesis Versaliensis Diocèse de Versailles
Versailles Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Paris
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Paris
Statistics
Area	2,270 km2 (880 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2014) 1,441,147 935,000 (64.9%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	29 November 1801
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Louis in Versailles
Patron saint	St. Louis IX of France
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Lucien Crepy
Metropolitan Archbishop	Michel Aupetit
Auxiliary Bishops
Bishops emeritus	Jean-Charles Thomas Éric Aumonier
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles (Latin: Dioecesis Versaliensis; French: Diocèse de Versailles) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versailles, was established in 1801. Until then, its territory had mostly been part of the Archdiocese of Paris and the Diocese of Chartres. It was centred on Versailles.

History[]

On its creation, the territory of the diocese of Versailles corresponded to the département of Seine-et-Oise. Following the boundary changes of the départements of Île-de-France, new dioceses were established on 9 October 1966. The diocese of Versailles was therefore modified to correspond to the département of Yvelines, following the creation of the Dioceses of Évry–Corbeil-Essones, Nanterre, Saint-Denis, Créteil, Pontoise.

Bishops of Versailles[]

1. (1802–1827)
2. (1827–1832)
3. Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1832–1844)
4. (1844–1857)
5. (1858–1877)
6. (1877–1904)
7. (1906–1931)
8. (1931–1952)
9. Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard (1953–1967)
10. Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux (1967–1988)
11. Jean-Charles Thomas (1988–2001)
12. Éric Aumonier (2001–2020)
13. (2021–present)

The native bishops of Versailles[]

• Thierry Jordan, archbishop of Reims
• Stanislas Lalanne, bishop of Coutances et Avranches
• Olivier de Berranger, bishop of Saint-Denis
• , bishop of Moulins
• Albert Malbois, bishop emeritus of Évry

References[]

Sources[]

• Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères. pp. 346–350.

External links[]

• Media related to Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles at Wikimedia Commons
• (in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
• (in French) Official site of the diocese
• (in English) Diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org

Coordinates: 48°47′55″N 2°07′30″E / 48.7985°N 2.12487°E / 48.7985; 2.12487