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Diocese of Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) Dioecesis Valentinensis (–Diensis–Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum) Diocèse de Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) | |
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 Cathedral of St. Apollinaris, Valence | |
| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Lyon |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Lyon |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 6,522 km2 (2,518 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 502,877 289,500 (57.6%) |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of St. Apollinaris of Valence |
| Patron saint | St. Apollinaris of Valence |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | François Durand |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Olivier de Germay |
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The Diocese of Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) (Latin: Dioecesis Valentinensis (–Diensis–Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum); French: Diocèse de Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southern France.[1] The contemporary diocese is co-extensive with the department of Drôme.
The Cathedral of Valence was originally dedicated to Saints Cornelius and Cyprianus (Bishops of Rome and of Carthage, both mid-third century martyrs[2]), but in 1095, during his visit to France to rouse up the aristocracy for a Crusade to liberate the Holy Land, Pope Urban II rededicated the cathedral to Saint Apollinaris, one of Valence's sixth century bishops. The Cathedral had fourteen Canons, including a Dean, a Provost, the Archdeacon, a Theologian, and the Abbot of S. Felix.[3]
In the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), the Bishops of Valence-et-Die were all appointed by and were loyal to the Popes of the Avignon Obedience.
Pope Pius VI, who had been taken prisoner and deported from Italy by troops of the French Directory, was imprisoned in the fortress of Valence. After six weeks he died there, on 29 August 1799. His body was buried in the chapel, and a month later, on First Consul Napoleon's orders, given a public funeral and buried in the town cemetery.[4]
- ^ "Diocese of Valence". Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^ Saint Jerome wrote that they had been martyred on the same day, September 14.
- ^ Gallia christiana XVI, p. 291.
- ^ Pietro Baldassari (1843). Relazione delle avversità e patimenti del glorioso Papa Pio VI, negli ultimi tre anni del suo pontificato (in Italian). Vol. Tomo IV. Modena: dalla reale tip. degli Eredi Soliani. pp. 284–292. Alexis Francois Artaud de Montor (1911). The Lives and Times of the Popes. New York: Catholic Publication Society of America. pp. 304–310.