Diocese of Digne

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The French Catholic Diocese of Digne, since 1922 known as the Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron, comprising the entire department of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, is a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Aix. The bishops are seated at Digne-les-Bains, in Digne Cathedral.

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[edit] Extent

By the Concordat of 1801, this diocese was made to include the two departments of the Hautes-Alpes and the Basses-Alpes, in addition to the former Diocese of Digne, the Archdiocese of Embrun, the dioceses of Gap, Sisteron and Senez, a very considerable part of the dioceses of Glandèves and Riez, and fourteen parishes in the Archdiocese of Aix and the Diocese of Apt. In 1822 Gap was made an episcopal see and, thus divested of the department of the Hautes Alpes, the present Diocese of Digne covers the territory formerly included in the Dioceses of Digne, Senez, Glandèves, Riez and Sisteron.

[edit] History

The former diocese of Digne was evangelized by Saints Domninus and Vincentius who came from Africa in the second half of the fourth century with Saint Marcellinus, the Apostle of Embrun. It is not certain that they were bishops. The first historically known bishop was Pentadius who attended the Council of Agde in 506.

[edit] Pre-Revolutionary bishops

Among the incumbents of the ancien régime see of Digne may be mentioned:

[edit] List of bishops since 1802

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ His kindness was proverbial, and he was the original of "Mgr. Myriel" in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables

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