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Diocese of Aire

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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