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The Bishop of Lausanne (French: Évêque de Lausanne) was the principal ecclesiastical authority of the diocese of Lausanne, Switzerland (Latin: Dioecesis Lausannensis).
King Rudolphe I of Burgundy granted the Church of Lausanne the privilege of electing its own bishop on 28 January 895.[1]
On 25 August 1011, at the request of Queen Ermengarde, Archbishop Burchard of Lyon (the king's brother), Bishop Hugues of Geneva, and Anselme of Aosta, the county of Vaud with all its rights and privileges[2] was granted to Bishop Henri of Lausanne and his successors, by King Rudolphe III of Burgundy.[3]
It is claimed that the bishops of Lausanne[4] were granted the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1270.[5] The deed of grant is published by Jean Joseph Hisely in his work on the comtes de Genevois, but it bears the date 28 September 1273, not 1270. It states that the grant was requested by Pope Gregory X in person, on the very day on which he presided at the consecration of the cathedral of Lausanne.[6] On 28 September 1273, however, Pope Gregory was in Reggio Emiliana, on his way to France for the Second Council of Lyon.[7] The cathedral of Lausanne was consecrated by Gregory X in 1275, not 1273, and on 20 October, not 28 September.[8] The deed of grant has been labelled a forgery.[9]
In the 15th century, the bishops of Lausanne still style themselves episcopus et comes.[10]
The Sovereign Council of Bern secularized the bishopric in 1536.[11] Bishop Sébastien de Montfalcon fled into exile, first in Évian-les-Bains, and then in Burgundy.
Since 1924, the dioceses have been combined as the Catholic diocese of Fribourg, Lausanne, and Geneva,[12] which has its episcopal seat in Fribourg.
- For the ecclesiastical history, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, and Roman Catholic Diocese of Geneva.
- ^ Schmitt (1858), Mémoires historiques sur le Diocèse de Lausanne, I pp. 281-282. Conon d'Estavayer, pp. 53-54: "Constituentes omnimodis ut quando proprium rectorem Morte interueniente, filii frequenter prelibate Lausannensis amiserint ecclesie, habeant liberam potestatem secundum canonicam institutionem eligendi sicubi dignius repperiri voluerint de propria ecclesia pastorem. Si autem quod non obtamus in eadem ad hoc opus idoneus minime fuerit repertus, de conuicina ecclesia petant sibi dari, tantum ut nullus ibidem consecretur nec preponatur nisi qui a clero et populo sancte ecclesie Lausannensis fuerit electus."
- ^ Gingins-La Serra & Forel, pp. 1-3.: "...comitatum VValdensem sicut ab antiquis terminationibus est de terminatus cum omnibus pertinenciis instophariis in exactionibus in omnibus usibus et utilitatibus legaliter et firmiter ad tenendum lausonneque perpetualiter permanendum...."
- ^ Schmitt (1858), Mémoires historiques sur le Diocèse de Lausanne, I pp. 327-329. Lullin & Le Fort (1866), Régeste genevois, p. 43, no. 153.
- ^ The grant specifically mentions the recipient, Bishop Jean de Cossonay, who died on 18 June 1273. Eubel I, p. 296.
- ^ Gregor Reinhold, "Lausanne and Geneva," in: The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. Retrieved: 25 January 2024.
- ^ Jean-Joseph Hisely, Les comtes de Genevois dans leurs rapports avec la maison de Savoie jusqu'à l'établissement définitif de la domination savoisienne dans la Comté de Vaud: soit jusqu'à la fin du treizième siècle, (in French and Latin) (Lausanne: Institut national genevois, 1854), p. 98: "Notum sit, quod ad instantiam Ss. D. Gregorii Papæ X, ipsa die Consecrationis ecclesiæ beatæ Mariæ Lausannensis ab ipso nobis adstantibus factæ, speciali affectu in reverendos devotos Episcopos dictæ ecclesiæ propensi, utpote de Romano Imperio semper bene meritos, dilectum nobis reverendum devotum Ioannem de Cossonay, Episcopum et Comitem Lausannensem, eiusque successores in perpetuum creavimus et stabilivimus Principem Romani Imperii nostri, posterorumque successorum nostrorum."
- ^ August Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, (in Latin), Vol. 2 (Berlin: R. De Decker 1875), p. 1672.
- ^ Nicolas (Rädle), Notice sur la date exacte de la consécration de la cathédrale de Lausanne (Fribourg: Imprimerie catholique Suisse 1885), p. 18.
- ^ Hisely, pp. 98-99, citing others who consider the grant a forgery, and those who consider it authentic, and summarizing the conclusions of Fontaine, Dissertation historique et critique pour fixer l'époque de l'entrevue du pape Grégoire X & de l'empereur Rodolphe de Habsbourg à Lausanne.
- ^ Gingins-La Serra & Forel, pp. 3, 538.
- ^ Schmitt II, pp. 343-373.
- ^ Pius XI, apostolic constitution "Sollicitudo omnium", 17 October 1924, in: Acta Apostolicae Sedis Vol. 30 (Romae: Typis polyglottis Vaticanis 1925), pp. 57-61.