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Diocese of Pamiers

Diocese of Pamiers-Couserans-Mirepoix
Dioecesis Apamiensis-Couseranensis-Mirapicensis
Diocèse de Pamiers-Mirepoix-Couserans
Cathédrale Saint-Antonin de Pamiers (09).JPG
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Toulouse
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toulouse
Statistics
Area 4,903 km2 (1,893 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
138,500
99,350 (71.7%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 16 September 1295 (As Diocese of Pamiers)
11 March 1910 (As Diocese of Pamiers-Couserans-Mirepoix)
Cathedral Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers
Patron saint St. Antoninus of Pamiers
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Philippe Mousset
Metropolitan Archbishop Robert Jean Louis Le Gall
Emeritus Bishops Marcel Germain Perrier Bishop Emeritus (2000-2008)
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic diocese of Pamiers (Lat. Appamiarum), is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in southern France. The diocese comprises the department of Ariège, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Toulouse. The episcopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Antoninus in the city of Pamiers, and the current bishop is Jean-Marc Eychenne, appointed on 17 December 2014.

The territory forming the diocese was united to the archbishopric of Toulouse on the occasion of the Concordat of 1801 with Napoleon; the Concordat of 1817, negotiated after the fall of the Emperor of the French, re-established at Pamiers a diocese which existed only in September, 1823, uniting the ancient diocese of Pamiers and diocese of Couserans, the larger portion of the former diocese of Mirepoix and diocese of Rieux, and a deanery of the former diocese of Alet.

A decree of the Holy See 11 March 1910, re-established the titles of the former Sees of Couserans and Mirepoix.

The traditions of the diocese mention as its first apostle of Christianity St. Antoninus, born at Fredelacum near Pamiers in the Rouergue, martyred in his native country (date uncertain). The Abbey of St. Antonin was founded near Fredelacum about 960; in 1034 it passed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Girone and was annexed in 1060 to the Congregation of Cluny.


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