Mission de France o Pontigny
Missionis Galliae seu Pontiniacen(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Pontigny, France
The Territorial Prelature of the Mission de France at Pontigny is a Latin rite personal prelature-like territorial jurisdiction erected on 15 August 1954 to support missionary priests serving across France; its seat is at Pontigny in the ecclesiastical province of Dijon. Its prelatic church is the former abbey church of Pontigny, the Cathedrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 August 1954
- Latin
- Missionis Galliae seu Pontiniacen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000282
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 760
- Population
- 2,021
- Catholic share
- 37.6%
- Priests
- 2
- Catholics per priest
- 380
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
- Prelate
- Dominique Blanchet
- Born
- 15 February 1966
- Birthplace
- Cholet
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
Cathedrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption stands in Pontigny, 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 Dijon
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dijon.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DijonDijon
- Archdiocese of SensSens
- Diocese of AutunAutun
- Diocese of NeversNevers
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Pontigny, a city in Burgundy (France), hosts a Latin territorial prelature of the Catholic Church known under two names: the Territorial Prelature of Mission de France (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae; French: Prélature Territoriale de la Mission de France) and the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Pontiniacensis; French: Prélature Territoriale de Pontigny). It belongs to the ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dijon.
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].