Bishopric of Gap

Diocese of Gap and Embrun Dioecesis Vapincensis et Ebrodunensis Diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun
Gap Cathedral (constructed 1866–1905)
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Marseille
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Marseille
Statistics
Area	5,643 km2 (2,179 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 141,500 121,300 (85.7%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5th Century
Cathedral	Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Saint Arnoux in Gap
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Xavier Malle
Metropolitan Archbishop	Georges Pontier
Emeritus Bishops	Jean-Michel di Falco Léandri (2003-2017)
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap and Embrun (Latin: Dioecesis Vapincensis et Ebrodunensis; French: Diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southern France.

The episcopal see is Gap Cathedral, in the city of Gap. It has a co-cathedral, the Co-cathédrale of Notre Dame in Embrun. The diocese also has a minor basilica, the Basilique Notre-Dame du Laus, in Saint-Étienne-le-Laus.

The current bishop is Jean-Michel di Falco.

In 2014, the diocese served an estimated 121,700 Catholics (85.8% of an estimated 141,900 total) in 188 parishes and a mission. It had 55 priests (51 diocesan, 4 religious), 8 deacons, 71 lay religious (5 brothers, 66 sisters) and 3 seminarians. In 2017 there were 59 diocesan priests, 17 of whom were seventy-five years of age or older (and three over the age of ninety). Only one is under the age of thirty.

Ancient traditions in liturgical books, of which at least one dates from the fourteenth century, state that the first Bishop of Gap was St. Demetrius, disciple of the Apostles and martyrs.Victor de Buck in the Acta Sanctorum finds nothing inadmissible in these traditions, while Canon Albanès defends them against Joseph Roman. Albanès names as bishops of Gap the martyr St. Tigris (fourth century), then St. Remedius (394–419), whom Louis Duchesne makes a Bishop of Antibes and who was involved in the struggle between Pope Zosimus and Bishop Proculus of Marseilles. According to Duchesne the first historically known bishop is Constantinus, present at the Council of Epaone in 517. The church of Gap had, among other bishops, Aredius of Gap (or St. Arey, 579–610?), who had at Gap a school, and who was held in esteem by Pope Gregory the Great. Worth mention is St. Arnoux (1065–1078), who had been a monk of the abbey of Saint-Trinité de Vendome, and was named bishop by Pope Alexander II to replace the simoniac Bishop Ripert. Arnoux became a patron saint of the city of Gap.