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Bishop of Vannes

Diocese of Vannes
Dioecesis Venetensis
Diocèse de Vannes
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Vannes.jpg
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Rennes
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo
Statistics
Area 7,092 km2 (2,738 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2014)
727,000
583,000 (80.2%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 5th Century
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Vannes
Patron saint St. Padarn
Secular priests 261 (diocesan)
94 (religious orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Raymond Centène
Metropolitan Archbishop Pierre d'Ornellas
Emeritus Bishops François-Mathurin Gourvès Bishop Emeritus (since 2005)
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes (Latin: Dioecesis Venetensis; French: Diocèse de Vannes) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral, in the city of Vannes. The diocese corresponds to the department of Morbihan, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop, since his appointment in 2005.

In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the Concordat of 1802, to include part of the ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo, which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the Dioceses of Vannes and Saint-Brieuc and the Archdiocese of Rennes.

Alexandre Dumas makes Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the last book of his d'Artagnan Romances.

Coordinates: 47°39′08″N 2°44′25″W / 47.65222°N 2.74028°W / 47.65222; -2.74028


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