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Diocese of Évreux

Ebroicen(sis)

The Diocese of Évreux is a Latin Catholic diocese covering the Eure department in Normandy, dating to the early centuries of the Church. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen and led by Bishop Olivier de Cagny, appointed in 2023.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Latin
Ebroicen(sis)
Patron
Assumption of Mary
Annuario code
001001384

The see in figures

Catholics
345,300
Population
601,743
Catholic share
57.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
50
Catholics per priest
6,906
Extent
6,040 km²
Catholics per km²
57

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
Olivier de Cagny
Born
13 December 1961
Birthplace
Neuilly-sur-Seine

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 Notre-Dame in Évreux stands in Évreux, 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 Rouen

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Rouen.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The department of Eure, within the Region of Normandy, forms the territory of the Diocese of Évreux (Latin: Dioecesis Ebroicensis; French: Diocèse d'Evreux), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Rouen as a suffragan of that archdiocese. In 2011 the diocese counted one priest for every 6,056 Catholics.

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.

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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].