content
Archdiocese of Aix
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aix is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church , in France . The Archepiscopal see is located in the city of Aix-en-Provence . The diocese comprises the department of Bouches-du-Rhône (minus the arrondissement of Marseilles), in the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur . It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseilles .
Originally erected in the first century as the diocese of Aix, the diocese was elevated to an Archdiocese in the 5th century. After the Concordat, the Archdiocese became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Marseilles, and gained the sees of Arles and Embrun, becoming the Archdiocese of Aix (-Arles-Embrun). In 2007, the name got changed again, dropping the Embrun to the Archdiocese of Aix (-Arles).
The current bishop is Claude Feidt .
History Certain traditions make St. Maximinus the first Bishop of Aix, one of the seventy-two Disciples and the companion of Mary Magdalen in Provence. Louis Duchesne seems to have proved that this saint, the object of a very ancient local cult, was not considered the first bishop of Aix, or connected with the life of St. Mary Magdalen, except in recent legends, devised towards the middle of the eleventh century by the monks of Vezelay . The first historically known bishop of Aix, Lazarus, occupied this see about the beginning of the fifth century. Only at the end of the eighth century Aix became an archbishopric; up to that time it was dependent upon the Bishop of Arles .
Ordinaries
To 1000
45? : Saint Maximin
80? : Saint Sidoine
ca. 394–ca. 401: Triferius
ca. 408–ca. 411: Lazarus
439?–475: Auxanius
475–494: Basile
5th century: Menelphale; archbishopric from some point in the 5th century
524–541: Maxime
549–554: Avole
566: Francon
581–585: Pientius
596–636: Protais
...
828: Benedict
867: Honorat
878–879: Robert I.
887: Matfrid
928–947: Odolric
949: Israel
966?–979: Silvester
991–1018: Amalric I
1000 to 1300
1019: Pons I. de Châteaurenard
10?–1032: Amalric II.
1032–ca. 1050: Peter I.
1050–1056: Pons II. de Châteaurenard
1056–1082: Rostan de Fos
1082–1101: Peter II. Gaufridi
1101–1112: Peter III.
1115?–1131: Fouques
1132–1157: Pons de Lubières
1162–1165: Peter IV.
1165–1174: Hugues de Montlaur
1178–1180: Bertrand de Roquevaire
1180–1186: Heinrich
1186–1212: Gui de Fos
1212–1223: Bermond Cornut
1123–1251: Raimond Audibert
1251–1257: Philipp I.
1257–1273: Vicedomino de Vicedominis
1274–1282: Grimier Vicedominus
1283–1311: Rostan de Noves
1300 to 1500
1311–1312: Guillaume de Mandagot
1313–1318: Robert de Mauvoisin
1318–1320: Pierre des Prés (also Bishop of Riez )
1321–1322: Pierre Auriol
1322–1329: Jacques de Concos
1329–1348: Armand de Narcès
1348–1361: Arnaud de Pireto
1361–1368: Jean Peissoni
1368–1379: Giraud de Pousillac
1379–1395: Jean d'Agout
1396–1420: Thomas de Puppio
1420–1421: Guillaume Fillastre
1422–1443: Avignon Nicolaï
1443–1447: Robert Roger
1447–1460: Robert Damiani
1460–1484: Olivier de Pennart
1484–1499: Philippe Herbert
1500 to 1800
1500–1503: Christophe de Brillac
1503–1506: François de Brillac (also Bishop of Orléans )
1506–1541: Pierre Philholi (also Bishop of Sisteron )
1541–1550: Antoine Philholi
1551–1566: Jean de Saint-Chamond
1568–1571: Lorenzo Strozzi
1574–1576: Julien de Médicis (also Bishop of Béziers )
1576–1591: Alexandre Canigiani
1591–1597: Gilbert Genebrard
1599–1624: Paul Hurault de L'Hôpital
1624–1625: Gui Hurault de L'Hôpital
1626–1629: Alphonse de Richelieu brother of Cardinal Richelieu
1631–1644: Louis de Bretel
1645–1648: Michel Mazarin (brother of Cardinal Jules Mazarin )
1655–1683: Jérôme Grimaldi
1693–1708: Daniel de Cosnac
1708–1729: Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc (then Archbishop of Paris )
1729–1770: Jean-Baptiste de Brancas
1790–1801: Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucè (4. November 1770–7. November 1801)
From 1800
Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucè † (4 Nov 1770 Appointed - 7 Nov 1801 Resigned)
Jérôme-Marie Champion de Cicé † (9 Apr 1802 Appointed - 22 Aug 1810 Died)
Pierre-François-Gabriel-Raymond-Ignace-Ferdinand de Bausset-Roquefort † (8 Aug 1817 Appointed - 29 Jan 1829 Died)
Charles-Alexandre de Richery † (8 Feb 1829 Appointed - 25 Nov 1830 Died)
Jacques Raillon † (14 Dec 1830 Appointed - 13 Feb 1835 Died)
Joseph Bernet † (6 Oct 1835 Appointed - 5 Jul 1846 Died)
Pierre-Marie-Joseph Darcimoles † (5 Dec 1846 Appointed - 11 Jan 1857 Died)
Georges-Claude-Louis-Pie Chalandon † (4 Feb 1857 Appointed - 28 Feb 1873 Died)
Théodore-Augustin Forcade, M.E.P. † (21 Mar 1873 Appointed - 12 Sep 1885 Died)
François Xavier Gouthe-Soulard † (2 Mar 1886 Appointed - 9 Sep 1900 Died)
François-Joseph-Edwin Bonnefoy † (5 Apr 1901 Appointed - 20 Apr 1920 Died)
Maurice-Louis-Marie Rivière † (9 Jul 1920 Appointed - 28 Sep 1930 Died)
Emmanuel Coste † (28 Jul 1931 Appointed - 18 Jan 1934 Died)
Clément-Emile Roques † (24 Dec 1934 Appointed - 11 May 1940 Appointed, Archbishop of Rennes ))
Florent-Michel-Marie-Joseph du Bois de la Villerabel † (11 May 1940 Appointed - 13 Dec 1944 Resigned)
Charles-Marie-Joseph-Henri de Provenchères † (3 Nov 1945 Appointed - 30 Nov 1978 Retired)
Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu (30 Nov 1978 Appointed - 24 Aug 1994 Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Marseille)
Louis-Marie Billé † (5 May 1995 Appointed - 10 Jul 1998 Appointed, Archbishop of Lyon )
Claude Feidt (17 Jun 1999 Appointed - present)
Source
