Bishop of Pamiers
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Diocese of Pamiers-Couserans-Mirepoix Dioecesis Apamiensis-Couseranensis-Mirapicensis Diocèse de Pamiers-Mirepoix-Couserans |
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| Location | |
| Country |  France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Toulouse |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Toulouse |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 4,903 km2 (1,893 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 138,500 99,350 (71.7%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 16 September 1295 (As Diocese of Pamiers) 11 March 1910 (As Diocese of Pamiers-Couserans-Mirepoix) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers |
| Patron saint | St. Antoninus of Pamiers |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Philippe Mousset |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Robert Jean Louis Le Gall |
| Emeritus Bishops | Marcel Germain Perrier Bishop Emeritus (2000-2008) |
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| Website of the Diocese | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis; French: Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in southern France. The diocese comprises the department of Ariège and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Toulouse. The episcopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Antoninus in the city of Pamiers, and the current bishop is Jean-Marc Eychenne, appointed on 17 December 2014.
The territory forming the diocese was united to the Archbishopric of Toulouse on the occasion of the Concordat of 1801 with Napoleon; the Concordat of 1817, negotiated after the fall of the Emperor of the French, re-established at Pamiers a diocese which existed only in September, 1823, uniting the ancient Diocese of Pamiers and Diocese of Couserans, the larger portion of the former Diocese of Mirepoix and Diocese of Rieux, and a deanery of the former Diocese of Alet.
A decree of the Holy See 11 March 1910, re-established the titles of the former Sees of Couserans and Mirepoix.
The traditions of the diocese mention as its first apostle of Christianity St. Antoninus, born at Fredelacum near Pamiers in the Rouergue, martyred in his native country (date uncertain). The Abbey of St. Antonin was founded near Fredelacum about 960; in 1034 it passed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Girone and was annexed in 1060 to the Congregation of Cluny.
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