Diocese of Saint-Flour
Sancti Flori
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Saint-Flour, France
The Diocese of Saint-Flour is a Latin Church diocese covering the department of Cantal in central France, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Clermont. Didier Noblot has been its bishop since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 February 1317
- Latin
- Sancti Flori
- Patron
- Saint Flour of Lodeve
- Annuario code
- 001002810
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 125,000
- Population
- 143,143
- Catholic share
- 87.3%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 2,841
- Extent
- 5,726 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
- Didier Noblot
- Born
- 16 September 1965
- Birthplace
- Bar-sur-aube
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
Saint-Flour Cathedral stands in Saint-Flour, 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 Clermont
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Clermont.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ClermontClermont
- Diocese of Le Puy-en-VelayLe Puy-en-Velay
- Diocese of MoulinsMoulins
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected in 1317, the Diocese of Saint-Flour (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Flori; French: Diocèse de Saint-Flour) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France covering the department of Cantal. Until 2002 it was suffragan of (subject to) the Archdiocese of Bourges; with Pope John Paul II's general reorganization of the French church's structure it became suffragan of the Archdiocese of Clermont. The bishop's seat is in Saint-Flour, Cantal.
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].