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Bayeux Cathedral
Bayeux Cathedral

The bishopric of Bayeux, coextensive with the Department of Calvados, is a suffragan to the Archbishopric of Rouen, also in Normandy, France. The French department of Calvados forms part of the region of Basse-Normandie in Normandy. A suffragan bishop is a Bishop subordinate to a Metropolitan bishop or Diocesan bishop. Normandy (Normandie Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

At the time of the Concordat of 1802, the ancient Diocese of Lisieux was united to that of Bayeux. The Concordat of 1801 is a reflection of an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church as the majority The bishop of Lisieux was the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lisieux. A pontifical Brief, in 1854, authorized the Bishop of Bayeux to call himself Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux. The Papal Brief is a formal document emanating from the Pope, in a somewhat simpler and more modern form than a Papal Bull.

History

Saint Vigor was bishop of Bayeux during the 6th century.
Saint Vigor was bishop of Bayeux during the 6th century. Saint Vigor (Saint Vigor Vigeur (d 537 AD was a French bishop and Christian missionary

A local legend, found in the breviaries of the fifteenth century, makes St. Exuperius, first Bishop of Bayeux, an immediate disciple of St. Clement, and his see a foundation of the first century; St. For other uses see Exuperius (disambiguation. Saint Exuperius (also Exsuperius) (Saint Exupéry Saint Soupire (died c St Clement may refer to Pope Clement I, also known as St Clement of Rome (died c Regnobertus, the same legend tells us, was the successor of St. Exuperius, but the Bollandists and M. The Bollandists are an association of scholars - originally all Jesuit, but now including non-Jesuits -- philologists and historians -- who since the early seventeenth century Jules Lair found little ground for this legend; it was only towards the middle of the fourth century that St. Exuperius founded the See of Bayeux; after him the priest St. Reverendus worked to spread Christianity in these parts.

Certain successors of St. Exuperius were saints: Rufinianus; Lupus (about 465); Vigor (beginning of the sixth century), who destroyed a pagan temple, then still frequented; Regnobertus (about 629), who founded many churches, and whom the legend, owing to an anachronism, made first successor to Exuperius; and Hugues (d. Saint Vigor (Saint Vigor Vigeur (d 537 AD was a French bishop and Christian missionary 730), simultaneously bishop of two other sees, Paris and Rouen.

We may also mention Odon of Conteville (1050-97), brother of William the Conqueror, who built the cathedral, was present at the Battle of Hastings, intrigued for the tiara on the death of Gregory VII (1085), and died a crusader in Sicily; Cardinal Trivulce (1531-48), papal legate in the Roman Campagna during the siege and pillage of Rome by the Constable de Bourbon; Arnaud Cardinal d'Ossat (1602-04), an illustrious diplomatist prominently identified with the conversion of Henry IV of France. Odo of Bayeux (c 1036 &ndash February 1097 Palermo) Norman Bishop and English earl was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was for William I of England ( 1027 His reign which brought Norman culture to England had an enormous impact on the subsequent course of England in the Middle Ages The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. A tiara (from Persian تاره tara adopted in Latin as 'tiara' is a form of crown. Agostino Trivulzio (c 1485 - 1548 was an Italian Cardinal and Papal legate. A Papal Legate – from the Latin authentic Roman title Legatus – is a personal representative of the Pope to Foreign nations or to some part of the Catholic The Roman Campagna ( Italian: campagna romana) is a low-lying area surrounding Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, with an area Arnaud d'Ossat ( July 20, 1537 &mdash March 13, 1604) was a French diplomat and Writer, and a Cardinal Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III Claude Fauchet, who after being court preacher to Louis XVI, became one of the "conquerors" of the Bastille, was chosen Constitutional Bishop of Bayeux in 1791, and was beheaded 31 October, 1793. Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre The Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( "Constitution civile du clergé") was a law passed on July 12, 1790 during the French Revolution Mgr. Arnette, coadjutor, with right of succession to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris was, until 1905, Bishop of Bayeux.

In the Middle Ages Bayeux and neighbouring Lisieux (later merged in) were very important sees. The Bishop of Bayeux was senior among the Norman bishops, and the chapter was one of the richest in France. The See of Lisieux maintained the Collége de Lisieux at Paris for poor students of the diocese.

Important councils were held within this diocese, at Caen, in 1042 and 1061; in the latter was proclaimed "the Truce of God". Caen (kɑ̃ is a commune in northwestern France. It is the Prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the The statutes of a synod held at Bayeux about 1300, furnish a very fair idea of the discipline of the time.

Among the abbeys of the Diocese of Bayeux should be mentioned those of St. Stephen (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and of the Trinity (Abbaye-aux-Dames), both founded at Caen by William the Conqueror (1029-87) and his wife Matilda, in expiation of their unlawful marriage. The former of these abbeys was governed by the celebrated Lanfranc, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Other abbeys were those of Troarn of which Durand, the successful opponent of Berengarius, was abbot in the eleventh century, and the Abbaye du Val, of which Rancé was abbot, in 1661, prior to his reform of La Trappe Abbey. Troarn is a commune in the département of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Durandus of Troarn (b about 1012 at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d La Trappe Abbey or La Grande Trappe is a Monastery in Soligny-la-Trappe, Orne, France, and the house of origin of the Order The Abbey of St. Evroul (Ebrulphus) in the diocese of Lisieux, founded about 560 by St. Evroul, a native of Bayeux, is famous as the home of Ordericus Vitalis, the chronicler (1075-1141). Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche ( Saint-Evroult-sur-Ouche Saint-Evroul-en-Ouche Saint-Evroult-en-Ouche Abbaye de Saint-Evroult Sanctus Ebrulphus Uticensis) is an Abbey "St Evroul" redirects here For the abbey see Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche. Orderic Vitalis (1075&ndashc 1142 was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary Chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and

Saint Jean Eudes founded in 1641 in Caen the congregation of Notre Dame de Charité du Refuge, which is devoted to the protection of girls and included 33 monasteries in France and elsewhere in 1900. Jean Eudes, or John Eudes, ( November 14, 1601 - August 19, 1680) was a French missionary founder of the Eudists At Tilly, in the diocese of Bayeux, Michel Vingtras established, in 1839, the politico-religious society known as La Miséricorde, in connexion with the survivors of La Petite Eglise, which was condemned in 1843 by Gregory XVI. Pope Gregory XVI ( September 18 1765 &ndash June 1 1846) born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, named Mauro as a member of Daniel Huet, the famous savant (1630-1721) and Bishop of Avranches, was a native of Caen. Pierre Daniel Huet ( February 8, 1630 &ndash January 26, 1721) was a French churchman and scholar editor of the Delphin

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