Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulle

Diocese of Tulle

Dioecesis Tutelensis

Diocèse de Tulle
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical provincePoitiers
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Poitiers
Statistics
Area5,896 km2 (2,276 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2014)
242,454
223,000 (92.1%)
Parishes296
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established11 July 1317
CathedralCathedral of Notre Dame and St. Martin
Patron saintSaint Martin of Tours
Secular priests54 (diocesan)
5 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopFrancis Bestion
Metropolitan ArchbishopPascal Wintzer
Bishops emeritusBernard Louis Marie Charrier (since 2013)
Website
correze.catholique.fr

The Diocese of Tulle (Latin: Dioecesis Tutelensis; French: Diocèse de Tulle) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Tulle, France. The diocese of Tulle comprises the whole département of Corrèze.

The Abbey of Tulle was founded in the early 10th century. By the early 12th century, the abbot had established control over the pilgrimage church of Rocamadour. The abbacy was raised to a diocese in 1317, but suppressed by the Concordat of 1802, which joined it to the diocese of Limoges. In 1817, the diocese was re-established in principle, according to the terms of the Concordat of 1817,[1] but was re-erected canonically only by the papal Bulls dated 6 and 31 October 1822,[2] and made suffragan to the Archbishop of Bourges. Since the reorganization of French ecclesiastical provinces by Pope John Paul II on 8 December 2002, Tulle has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Poitiers.[3]

  1. ^ Pope Pius VII had noted in a Consistory of 23 August 1822 that various circumstances were delaying the carrying out of the reorganization of the French ecclesiastical provinces. On 27 September 1822 he wrote to the Bishop of Limoges that he had appointed a temporary Administrator of the Diocese of Tulle: Bullarii Romani Continuatio Tomus septimus (Prati 1852), pp. 2289-2290.
  2. ^ Bullarii Romani Continuatio Tomus septimus (Prati 1852), pp. 2294-2304;
  3. ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy, Diocese of Tulle, retrieved: 2016-09-19.

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