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Suffragan diocese Pamiers, France

Diocese of Pamiers

Apamien(sis)

The Diocese of Pamiers is a Latin rite diocese covering the Ariege department in the French Pyrenees, erected on 16 September 1295 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toulouse. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers.

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers, in Pamiers, France.

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Established
1295
Catholics
107,160
Priests
21
Territory
4,903 km²

Parishes and churches

7 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Benoit Gschwind
Born
30 September 1963
Birthplace
Basel
Institute
AGOSTINIANI DELL'ASSUNZIONE (ASSUNZIONISTI)

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers stands in Pamiers, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Erected in 1295 as a historical diocese of the county of Foix, the Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis; French: Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southern France. Suppressed in 1801 and restored in 1822, it now takes in the department of Ariège and answers to the Archdiocese of Toulouse as its metropolitan.

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