Suffragan territorial prelature Pontigny, France
Mission de France o Pontigny
Missionis Galliae seu Pontiniacen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1954
- Catholics
- 760
- Priests
- 2
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The bishop
- Prelate
- Dominique Blanchet
- Born
- 15 February 1966
- Birthplace
- Cholet
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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.
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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.
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