Diocese of Chartres
Diocese of Chartres Dioecesis Carnutensis Diocèse de Chartres | |
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| File:Chartres Cathedrale 01.jpg | |
| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Tours |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Tours |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 5,939 km2 (2,293 sq mi) |
Population
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| Parishes | 23 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 3rd Century |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Chartres |
| Patron saint | Assumption of Mary |
| Secular priests | 53 (Diocesan) 12 (Religious Orders) 29 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Philippe Christory |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Vincent Jordy |
| Map | |
| File:Bistum Chartres.svg | |
The Diocese of Chartres (Latin: Dioecesis Carnutensis; French: Diocèse de Chartres) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France.[1] Currently, the diocese coveres the department of Eure-et-Loir as well as four parishes located in the department of Eure.
The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours.[2]
In 2021, in the Diocese of Chartres, there was one priest for every 4,413 Catholics.
History
[edit | edit source]Adventus is listed as the first bishop. Solemnis was instrumental in the conversion of Clovis.[3] In 911, Bishop Gauscelinus used the Voile de la Vierge (Veil of the Blessed Virgin), as a standard when warding off the invading Normans.[4] Fulbert was responsible for the advancement of the Nativity of the Virgin's feast day on September 8.[5] Ivo of Chartres and John of Salisbury were notable bishops.
The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres was constructed between 1194 and 1220, on the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since the Diocese of Chartres was formed as an episcopal see in the 4th century.
In 1697, the Diocese of Blois was erected from the territory of Chartres. It 1802, the Diocese of Chartres was suppressed, and the area placed under the newly created Diocese of Versailles. However, in 1822, the See of Chartres was re-established and made suffragan at that time to the Archbishopric of Paris.[6]
Pilgrimages
[edit | edit source]Chartres has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. Louis IX of France made a pilgrimage; as did Philip IV and Charles IV.[6]
The poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since the 1980s, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté,[7] with offices in Versailles, has organized the annual 100-km pilgrimage on foot from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, mostly young families from all over France, participate every year.
Bishops
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[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Official diocese website Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Diocese of Chartres from catholic-hierarchy.org/[self-published source]
- ^ (in French) Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain, et de la Beauce, Guillaume Doyen, éd. Deshayes, Chartres, 1786
- ^ Wellman, Tennyson . "Apocalyptic Concerns and Mariological Tactics in Eleventh-Century France", The Year 1000; Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium. (Michael Frassetto, ed.) 2002, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136
- ^ Fassler, Margot. "Mary's Nativity, Fulbert of Chartres, and the Stirps Jesse: Liturgical Innovation Circa 1000 and its Afterlife". Speculum. 2000: 75, p. 405
- ^ a b Goyau, Georges. "Diocese of Chartres." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 21 February 2023
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- ^ Notre-Dame de Chrétienté - English language site
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