Bishopric of Aire
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Diocese of Aire et Dax Dioecesis Aturensis et Aquae Augustae Diocèse d'Aire et Dax |
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| Location | |
| Country |  France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Bordeaux |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Bordeaux |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 9,364 km2 (3,615 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2012) 377,381 264,000 (70%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | Name Changed: 3 June 1857 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St-Jean-Baptiste, Aire |
| Co-cathedral | Cathedral of Nôtre Dame in Dax |
| Patron saint | Notre-Dame de Buglose |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Hervé Gaschignard |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard |
| Emeritus Bishops | Philippe Jean Louis Breton (2002-2012) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Diocese | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire (Lat.: dioecesis Adurensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Landes, in the Region of Gascony in Aquitaine.
It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch under the old regime, but was not re-established until 1822, when it was again made a suffragan of the re-established Archdiocese of Auch, and was assigned the territory of the former Diocese of Aire and Diocese of Acqs (Dax). It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux.
It has been known since 1857 as the Diocese of Aire et Dax.
It is a co-cathedral diocese, with episcopal seats in the Cathedral St-Jean-Baptiste d' Aire and in Nôtre Dame de Dax.
The first reference to a bishop of Aire, on the river Adour, in history is to Marcellus, represented at the Council of Agde, 506. Aire was also the home of St. Philibert; it numbered among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid and founded a chair of mathematics at the University of Bordeaux, though he never visited his diocese.
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