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Archdiocese of Chambéry

Archdiocese of Chambéry - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Tarentaise
Archidioecesis Camberiensis-Maruianensis-Tarantasiensis
Archidiocèse de Chambéry - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Tarentaise
Cathédrale St-François-de-Sales.JPG
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Lyon
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area 7,460 km2 (2,880 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
432,000
397,700 (92.1%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established United: 26 April 1966
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of St Francis de Sales in Chambéry
Co-cathedral Co-Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Co-Cathedral of St Peter in Moûtiers
Patron saint Saint Francis de Sales
Saint John the Baptist
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Archbishop Philippe Ballot
Metropolitan Archbishop Cardinal Philippe Barbarin
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry, is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in France and a suffragan of Lyon. The archepiscopal see is Chambéry Cathedral, located in the city of Chambéry. The archdiocese encompasses the department of Savoie, in the Region of Rhône-Alpes. The current archbishop is Mgr. Philippe Ballot, formerly a priest in Besançon.

The diocese was created in 1779, from the Diocese of Grenoble, after a complicated earlier history. It became an archdiocese in 1817, even though at that point it was not within French territory.

In 1467, in the ducal chapel built for the Holy Winding-Sheet (Santo Sudario, better known as the Turin Shroud) by Amadeus IX of Savoy, and the Duchess Yolande of France, Pope Paul II erected a chapter directly subject to the Holy See, and his successor Pope Sixtus IV, united this chapter with the deanery of Savoy. In 1515 Pope Leo X published a papal bull making the deanery an archbishopric, but Francis I of France objected, and it was only in 1775 that this deanery was separated from the Diocese of Grenoble by Pope Pius VI, who, in 1779, created it a bishopric with the see at Chambéry.


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