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Diocese of Troyes

Trecen(sis)

The Diocese of Troyes is a Latin Church diocese coterminous with the department of Aube in northeastern France, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Reims. Alexandre Joly has been its bishop since 2021.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
4th century
Latin
Trecen(sis)
Patron
Saints Peter and Paul
Annuario code
001003285

The see in figures

Catholics
216,000
Population
310,242
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
69.6%
Priests
40
Catholics per priest
5,400
Extent
6,028 km²
Catholics per km²
36

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
Alexandre Joly
Born
9 October 1971
Birthplace
Saint-Malo

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

Troyes Cathedral stands in Troyes, 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 Reims

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Reims.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Erected in the 4th century, the Diocese of Troyes (Latin: Dioecesis Trecensis; French: Diocèse de Troyes) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Troyes, France. Today it comprises the département of Aube and serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Reims.

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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.