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Diocese of Annecy

Annecien(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Annecy, France

The Diocese of Annecy is a Latin rite diocese covering the Haute-Savoie department in eastern France, erected on 15 February 1822 from territory of the ancient Diocese of Geneva. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Annecy.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
15 February 1822
Latin
Annecien(sis)
Patron
St. Francis de Sales
Annuario code
001000696

The see in figures

Catholics
528,000
Population
829,017
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
63.7%
Priests
80
Catholics per priest
6,600
Extent
4,317 km²
Catholics per km²
122

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Yves Le Saux
Born
24 December 1960
Birthplace
Hennebont

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Peter, Annecy stands in Annecy, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Lyon

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lyon.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Some 26 miles (42km) south of Geneva lies the Diocese of Annecy (Latin: Dioecesis Anneciensis; French: Diocèse d'Annecy), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in 1822, after the Concordat, as a suffragan (ecclesiastical subordinate) of the archdiocese of Chambéry, it takes in the entirety of the department of Haute-Savoie in the Region of Rhône-Alpes; the town of Saint-Gingolph VS, in the Swiss canton of Valais, also belongs to the diocese.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.