Diocese of Saint-Flour
Sancti Flori
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Saint-Flour, France
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:
- Archdiocese of ClermontClermont
- Diocese of Le Puy-en-VelayLe Puy-en-Velay
- Diocese of MoulinsMoulins
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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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.