Septem Provinciae

Diocese of the Seven Provinces
Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum
Diocese of the Roman Empire
314–477

Roman Gaul - AD 400
CapitalBurdigala
Historical eraLate Antiquity
• Established
314
• Fall of Provence to the Visigoths
477

The Diocese of the Seven Provinces (Latin: Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum), originally called the Diocese of Vienne (Latin: Dioecesis Viennensis) after the city of Vienna (modern Vienne), was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, under the praetorian prefecture of Gaul. It encompassed southern and western Gaul (Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis), that is, modern France south and west of the Loire, including Provence.

The diocese comprised the following provinces: Aquitanica I, Aquitanica II, Novempopulana (Aquitanica III), Narbonensis I, Narbonensis II, Viennensis and Alpes Maritimae.


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