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Diocese of Pamiers

Apamien(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pamiers, France

The Diocese of Pamiers is a Latin rite diocese covering the Ariege department in the French Pyrenees, erected on 16 September 1295 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toulouse. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Antoninus in Pamiers.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
16 September 1295
Latin
Apamien(sis)
Patron
St. Antoninus of Pamiers
Annuario code
001002529

The see in figures

Catholics
107,160
Population
153,153
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
70.0%
Priests
21
Catholics per priest
5,103
Extent
4,903 km²
Catholics per km²
22

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
Benoit Gschwind
Born
30 September 1963
Birthplace
Basel
Institute
AGOSTINIANI DELL'ASSUNZIONE (ASSUNZIONISTI)

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. Antoninus in Pamiers stands in Pamiers, 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 Toulouse

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Toulouse.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Erected in 1295 as a historical diocese of the county of Foix, the Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis; French: Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southern France. Suppressed in 1801 and restored in 1822, it now takes in the department of Ariège and answers to the Archdiocese of Toulouse as its metropolitan.

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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.