Diocese of Bayonne
Baionen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bayonne, France
The Diocese of Bayonne (Bayonne, Lescar and Oloron) is a Latin rite diocese covering the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department in southwestern France, an ancient see united with Lescar and Oloron on 22 June 1909. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux. Its seat is the Cathedral of Sainte-Marie in Bayonne.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1909
- Latin
- Baionen(sis)
- Patron
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Annuario code
- 001000863
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 597,000
- Population
- 697,000
- Catholic share
- 85.7%
- Priests
- 221
- Catholics per priest
- 2,701
- Extent
- 7,644 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 78
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Marc Aillet
- Born
- 17 April 1957
- Birthplace
- Parakou
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Sainte-Marie, Bayonne stands in Bayonne, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Bordeaux
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bordeaux.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BordeauxBordeaux
- Diocese of AgenAgen
- Diocese of Aire et DaxAire et Dax
- Diocese of PérigueuxPérigueux
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux, the Diocese of Bayonne, Lescar, and Oloron (Latin: Dioecesis Baionensis, Lascurrensis et Oloronensis; French: Diocèse de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron; Basque: Baionako, Leskarreko eta Oloroeko elizbarrutia) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France, commonly referred to simply as the Diocese of Bayonne.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].