Diocese 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 |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| 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 | sede vacante |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard |
| Emeritus Bishops | Philippe Jean Louis Breton (2002-2012) Herve Gaschignard (2012-2017) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Diocese | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire and Dax (Latin: Dioecesis Adurensis et Aquae Augustae; French: Diocèse d'Aire et Dax) 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 and Dax.
It is a co-cathedral diocese, with episcopal seats in the Cathedral St-Jean-Baptiste d' Aire and in Nôtre Dame de Dax.
On April 6, 2017, the resignation letter of recent Bishop Herve Gaschignard was officially accepted by Pope Francis following allegations that Gaschignard engaged in inappropriate behavior with young people.
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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