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Diocese of Saint-Flour

Sancti Flori

The Diocese of Saint-Flour is a Latin Church diocese covering the department of Cantal in central France, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Clermont. Didier Noblot has been its bishop since 2021.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
20 February 1317
Latin
Sancti Flori
Patron
Saint Flour of Lodeve
Annuario code
001002810

The see in figures

Catholics
125,000
Population
143,143
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
87.3%
Priests
44
Catholics per priest
2,841
Extent
5,726 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
Didier Noblot
Born
16 September 1965
Birthplace
Bar-sur-aube

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

Saint-Flour Cathedral stands in Saint-Flour, 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 Clermont

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Clermont.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Erected in 1317, the Diocese of Saint-Flour (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Flori; French: Diocèse de Saint-Flour) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France covering the department of Cantal. Until 2002 it was suffragan of (subject to) the Archdiocese of Bourges; with Pope John Paul II's general reorganization of the French church's structure it became suffragan of the Archdiocese of Clermont. The bishop's seat is in Saint-Flour, Cantal.

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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.