Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude

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Diocese of Saint-Claude Dioecesis Sancti Claudii Diocèse de Saint-Claude
Saint-Claude Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Besançon
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Besançon
Statistics
Area	4,499 km2 (1,737 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2022) 258,000 185,000 (71.7%)
Parishes	65 'new parishes'
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	22 January 1742
Cathedral	Cathedral of Sts. Peter, Paul and Andrew
Patron saint	St. Claudius of Besançon
Secular priests	56 (diocesan) 12 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jean-Luc Gérard Garin
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jean-Luc Bouilleret
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Saint-Claude (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Claudii; French: Diocèse de Saint-Claude) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese corresponds in territory to the department of Jura. It was created in 1742,^[1] as a smaller area, mostly consisting of some parishes previously controlled by the Abbey of Saint-Claude.^[2] Under the Concordat of 1802 the diocese was suppressed and its territory included in the Archdiocese of Besançon; in 1822 it was again made an independent diocese.

The Diocese of Saint-Claude is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon, and formerly a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Its cathedra is Saint-Claude Cathedral, in the episcopal see of Saint-Claude, Jura.

• Joseph de Méallet de Fargues, 1742–1785
• Jean-Baptiste Chabot, 1785–1801
• François Xavier Moyse (François-Xavier Moïse), 1791–1793, constitutional bishop
• Vacant
• Antoine Jacques de Chamon, 1823–1851
• Jean Pierre Mabile, 1851–1858, also Bishop of Versailles
• Charles Jean Fillion, 1858–1862, also Bishop of Le Mans
• Louis Anne Nogret, 1862–1880
• César-Joseph Marpot, 1880–1898
• François-Alexandre Maillet, 1898–1925
• Rambert-Irénée Faure, 1926–1948
• Claude-Constant Marie Flusin, 1948–1975
• Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 1975–1994
• Yves François Patenôtre, 1994–2004, also Archbishop of Sens
• Jean-Marie-Henri Legrez, O.P., 2005–2011; named Archbishop of Albi on February 2, 2011
• Vincent Jordy, 2011–2019^[3]
• Jean-Luc Gérard Garin, 2020–present

• Catholic Church in France
• List of Catholic dioceses in France

• (in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
• (in French) Diocesan page

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