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Bishop of Limoges

Diocese of Limoges
Dioecesis Lemovicensis
Diocèse de Limoges
Limoges, Cathédrale Saint-Étienne-F 622.jpg
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Poitiers
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Poitiers
Statistics
Area 11,085 km2 (4,280 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
504,200 (est.)
414,000 (est.) (82.1%)
Parishes 127
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 1st Century
Cathedral Cathedral of St. Stephen in Limoges
Patron saint Saint Martial
Secular priests 74 (diocesan)
16 (Religious Orders0
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Sede Vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop Pascal Wintzer
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoges (Latin: Dioecesis Lemovicensis; French: Diocèse de Limoges) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese comprises the départments of Haute-Vienne and Creuse. After the Concordat of 1801, the See of Limoges lost twenty-four parishes from the district of Nontron which were annexed to the Diocese of Périgueux, and forty-four from the district of Confolens, transferred to the Diocese of Angoulême; but until 1822 it included the entire ancient Diocese of Tulle, when the latter was reorganized.

Since 2002, the diocese has been suffragan to the Archdiocese of Poitiers, after transferral from the Archdiocese of Bourges. Until 20 September 2016 the see was held by François Michel Pierre Kalist, who was appointed on 25 Mar 2009. He was promoted to the See of Clermont.

Saint Gregory of Tours names St. Martial, who founded the Church of Limoges, as one of the seven bishops sent from Rome to Gaul in the middle of the 3rd century. An anonymous life of St. Martial (Vita primitiva), discovered and published by Abbé Arbellot, represents him as sent to Gaul by St. Peter. Controversy has arisen over the date of this biography. The discovery in the library at Karlsruhe of a manuscript copy written at Reichenau by Regimbertus, a monk who died in 846, places the original before that date. The biography is written in rhythmical prose; Charles-Félix Bellet thinks it belongs to the 7th century, while Charles De Smedt and Louis Duchesne maintain that the "Vita primitiva" is much later than Gregory of Tours (died 590). Charles Ferdinand de Lasteyrie du Saillant gives 800 as the date of its origin.


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