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Diocese of Rennes

Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo
Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii
Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo
Rennes - Cathédrale Saint-Pierre 120908-01.jpg
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Rennes
Statistics
Area 6,775 km2 (2,616 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2014)
1,024,246
840,000 (est.) (82.0%)
Parishes 79 'new parishes'
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established United: 13 February 1880
Cathedral Cathedral of St. Peter in Rennes
Patron saint Saint Peter
Secular priests 298 (diocesan)
33 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Pierre d'Ornellas
Auxiliary Bishops Nicolas Souchu
Map
Locator map of Archdiocese of Rennes
Archdiocese of Rennes
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo (Latin: Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii; French: Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese is coextensive with the department of Ille et Vilaine. The Archdiocese has 8 suffragans: the Diocese of Angers, the Diocese of Laval, the Diocese of Le Mans, the Diocese of Luçon, the Diocese of Nantes, the Diocese of Quimper and Léon, the Diocese of Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier, and the Diocese of Vannes.

In the Middle Ages the Bishop of Rennes had the privilege of crowning the dukes of Brittany in his cathedral. On the occasion of his first entry into Rennes it was customary for him to be borne on the shoulders of four Breton barons.

The Concordat of 1802 re-established the Diocese of Rennes which since then has included: the ancient Diocese of Rennes with the exception of three parishes given to the Diocese of Nantes; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of Dol; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of St. Malo; ten parishes that had formed part of the ancient Diocese of Vannes and Nantes. On 3 January 1859, the See of Rennes, which the French Revolution had desired to make a metropolitan, became an archiepiscopal see, with the Diocese of Quimper and Léon, Diocese of Vannes, and Diocese of St. Brieuc as suffragans. Cardinal Place obtained from Pope Leo XIII permission for the Archbishop of Rennes to add the titles of Dol and St. Malo to that of Rennes.


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