Roman Catholic Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon

Cathedral of Saint-Léonce de Fréjus (Saint Leontius of Fréjus).

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. In 1957 it was renamed as the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.^[1]

A suffragan of the Archbishopric of Aix, it comprised the whole département of Var. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, re-established by that of 1817, and definitively established in 1823.^[2]

The arrondissement of Grasse, which until 1860 belonged to the département of Var, when it was annexed to that of the Alpes-Maritimes, was, in 1886, separated from Fréjus and attached to the diocese of Nice. A Papal Brief of 1852 authorized the bishop to assume the title of Bishop of Fréjus and Toulon. The present diocese comprises the territory of the ancient Diocese of Fréjus as well as that of the ancient diocese of Toulon.

History

Christianity would seem to have been introduced into Fréjus in the time of Emperor Constantine. History relates that in 374 a certain Acceptus falsely declared himself guilty of some crimes in order to rid himself of the episcopal dignity, and that the Council of Valencia besought the Church to name another in his stead.

The following are named among the bishops of this see:

• St. Leontius (419-433), brother of St. Castor and friend of John Cassian, who dedicated to him his first ten "Collationes", and of St. Honoratus, founder of the monastery of Lérins
• Theodore (433-455), Abbot of the Iles d'Hyères, to whom Cassian dedicated the last seven "Collationes"
• St. Auxilius (c. 475), formerly a monk of Lérins, and later a martyr under Euric, Arian King of the Visigoths
• Riculfus (973-1000), who restored the ruins made by the Saracens, and built the cathedral and the episcopal palace
• Bertrand (1044–91), who founded the collegiate church of Barjols
• Raymond Berengarius (1235–1248), who arranged the marriage of Beatrice, daughter of the Count of Provence, with Charles of Anjou
• Jacques d'Euse (1300–1310), preceptor of St. Louis of Toulouse, and later pope under the name of John XXII
• Cardinal Nicolò Fieschi (1495–1524), who at the time of his death was dean of the Sacred College
• André-Hercule de Fleury (1698–1715).

The Island of Lérins, well known as the site of the celebrated monastery founded there in 410, was sold in 1859 by the bishop of Fréjus to an English purchaser. A number of the saints of Lérins are especially honoured in the diocese. Among them are Sts. Honoratus, Caesarius, Hilary, and Virgilius, all of whom became archbishop of Arles; Quinidius, Bishop of Vaison; Valerius, Bishop of Nice; Maximus, Bishop of Riez; Veranus and Lambertus, both Bishop of Vence; Vincent of Lérins, author of the Commonitorium, and his brother Lupus, Bishop of Troyes; Agricola, Bishop of Avignon; Aigulphus and Porcarius, martyrs; St. Tropesius, martyr during the persecution of Emperor Nero; St. Louis of Toulouse (1274–1297), a native of Brignoles, in the Diocese of Toulon, and later Archbishop of Toulouse; and the virgin St. Roseline, prioress of the monastery of La Celle-Roubaud, who died in 1329, and whose shrine, situated at Les Arcs near Draguignan, has been for six centuries a place of pilgrimage, are likewise especially honoured in the diocese.

The sojourn in 1482 of St. Francis of Paola at Bormes and at Fréjus, where he caused the cessation of the plague, made a lasting impression.

Bishops

To 1000

• 400?–433: Leonce
• 433–455: Theodor
• 463–465: Asterius
• 475?: Ausile
• 484?–506: Victorin
• 524: John I
• 527–529: Lupercien
• 541: Didier
• 549–554: Expectat
• 582: Epiphane
• 636: Martin
• ...
• 909–911: Benedict
• 949–952: Gontar
• 973–1000?: Riculfe

1000 to 1300

• 1010–1044: Gaucelme
• 1044–1091: Bertrand I.
• 1091–1131: Berenger
• 1131–1145: Bertrand II.
• 1154–1157: Pierre de Montlaur
• 1166–1197?: Fredol d'Anduze
• 1197–1202: Guillaume du Pont
• 1203–1206: Raimond de Capella
• 1206–1212: Bermond Cornut
• 1212?–1215: Raimond de Puyricard
• 1220: Olivier
• 1224–1233?: Bertrand III. de Favas
• 1235–1248: Raimond Berenger
• 1248–1264: Bertrand de Saint-Martin
• 1264–1266: Pierre de Camaret
• 1267–1280?: Guillaume de la Fonte
• 1280?–1299: Bertrand V. Comarque

1300 to 1500

• 1300–1310: Jacques Arnaud Duèze, later Pope John XXII
• 1318–1318: Bertrand VI. d'Aimini
• 1318–1340: Barthélémy Grassi
• 1340–1343: Jean d'Arpadelle
• 1343–1346: Guillaume d'Aubussac
• 1346–1348: Pierre Alamanni
• 1348: Pierre du Pin
• 1349–1360: Guillaume Amici (also Bishop of Apt and Bishop of Chartres)
• 1360–1361: Pierre Artaudi
• 1361–1364: Guillaume de Ruffec
• 1364–1371: Raimond Daconis
• 1371–1385: Bertrand de Villemus
• 1385: Emanuel I.
• 1385–1405: Louis de Bouillac
• 1408–1422: Gilles Juvenis
• 1422–1449?: Jean Bélard
• 1449–1452: Jacques Juvénal des Ursins
• 1452–1453: Jacques Séguin
• 1453–1455: Guillaume d'Estaing
• 1455–1462: Jean du Bellay
• 1462–1472: Léon Guérinet
• 1472: Réginald d'Angline
• 1472–1485: Urbain de Fiesque
• 1485–1488: Nicolas de Fiesque
• 1488–1494: Rostan d'Ancesune
• 1495–1524: Nicolas de Fiesque

1500 to 1800

• 1524–1534: Franciot des Ursins
• 1525–1564: Léon des Ursins
• 1565–1579: Bertrand de Romans
• 1579–1591: François de Bouliers
• 1591–1599?: Gérard Bellenger
• 1599–1637: Barthélémy Camelin
• 1637–1654: Pierre Camelin
• 1658–1674: Zongo Ondedei
• 1676–1678: Antoine de Clermont
• 1679–1680: Louis d’Anglure de Bourlemont
• 1681–1697: Luc d'Aquin
• 1697–1699: Louis d'Aquin
• 1699–1715: André-Hercule de Fleury (1. November 1698 bis 3. Mai 1715)
• 1715–1739: Pierre de Castellane
• 1739–1765: Martin du Bellay
• 1766–1801: Emmanuel de Bausset

From 1800

• Suppressed 1801–1822
• Charles-Alexandre de Richery (8 August 1817 to 8 February 1829) (also Archbishop of Aix)
• Louis-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Michel (16 April 1829 to 22 February 1845)
• Casimir-Alexis-Joseph Wicart (29 March 1845 to 3. July 1855) (also Bishop of Laval)
• Joseph-Antoine-Henri Jordany (6 November 1855 to March 1876)
• Joseph-Sébastien-Ferdinand Terris (17 March 1876 to 8 April 1885)
• Fédéric-Henri Oury (2 March 1886 to 3 June 1890) (also Bishop of Dijon)
• Eudoxe-Irénée-Edouard Mignot (3 June 1890 to 7 December 1899) (auch Archbishop of Albi)
• Aloys-Joseph-Eugène Arnaud (7 December 1899 to 17 June 1905)
• Félix-Adolphe-Camille-Jean-Baptiste Guillibert (21 February 1906 to 31 May 1926)
• Auguste-Joseph-Marie Simeone (30 July 1926 to 22 October 1940)
• Auguste Joseph Gaudel (24 September 1941 to 30 June 1960)
• Henri-Louis-Marie Mazerat (30 July 1960 to 11 December 1961) (also Bishop of Angers)
• Gilles-Henri-Alexis Barthe (4 May 1962 to 8 February 1983)
• Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec (8 February 1983 to 16 May 2000)
• Dominique Marie Jean Rey (16 May 2000–present)

References

1. ^ "Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon". catholic-hierarchy.org. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dfrej.html. 
2. ^ "Fréjus". Catholic Encyclopedia. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06269a.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-18. 

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 

Coordinates: 43°07′54″N 5°58′25″E / 43.13167°N 5.97361°E / 43.13167; 5.97361