Diocese of Pamiers
Apamien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pamiers, France
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 September 1295
- Latin
- Apamien(sis)
- Patron
- St. Antoninus of Pamiers
- Annuario code
- 001002529
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 107,160
- Population
- 153,153
- Catholic share
- 70.0%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 5,103
- Extent
- 4,903 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 22
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
- Benoit Gschwind
- Born
- 30 September 1963
- Birthplace
- Basel
- Institute
- AGOSTINIANI DELL'ASSUNZIONE (ASSUNZIONISTI)
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 St. Antoninus in Pamiers stands in Pamiers, 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 Toulouse
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Toulouse.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AlbiAlbi
- Archdiocese of AuchAuch
- Archdiocese of ToulouseToulouse
- Diocese of CahorsCahors
- Diocese of MontaubanMontauban
- Diocese of Rodez–VabresRodez–Vabres
- Diocese of Tarbes et LourdesTarbes et Lourdes
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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].