Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims

The Cathedral of Reims, by Domenico Quaglio

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims (Lat:Archidioecesis Remensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by St. Sixtus, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750. The archbishop received the title "primate of Gallia Belgica" in 1089.

In 1023, Archbishop Ebles acquired the Countship of Reims, making him a prince-bishop; it became a duchy and a peerage between 1060 and 1170.

The archdiocese comprises the arrondissement of Reims and the département of Ardennes while the province comprises the région of Champagne-Ardenne. The suffragan dioceses within Reims are Amiens, Beauvais-Noyon-Senlis, Châlons, Langres, Soissons–Laon–Saint-Quentin, and Troyes. The archepiscopal see is located in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, where the Kings of France were traditionally crowned.

The current archbishop is Thierry Romain Camille Jordan, who was appointed in 1999.

Ordinaries

Bishops of Reims

• St. Sixtus (c. 260)
• Amantius? (Amanse)
• St. Sinicius (Sinice) (c. 280)
• St. Amantius (Amanse) (c. 290)
• Betause [Imbetausius] (before 300–c. 314)
• Aprus (Aper) (328–350)
• St. Maternien (350–359)
• Domitianus
• St. Donatian (361–390)
• St. Vincent (390–394)
• St. Severus (394–400)
• St. Nicasius (400–407; founded the first cathedral of Reims, killed by the Vandals)
• Barucius
• Barnabas
• Bennage (?–459)
• St. Remigius (459–533)
• Romanus
• Flavius (c. 535)
• Mappinus (c. 549)
• Egidius (573–590)
• Romulph (590–613)
• Sonnatius (613–c. 627)
• Leudigisil
• Angelbert (c. 630)
• Lando
• St. Nivard (before 657–673)
• St. Rieul (673–c. 689)
• St. Rigobert (c.689–717)
• Milo (717–744)
• Abel (744–748)

Archbishops of Reims

To 1000

• Tilpin (748-795; the Turpin of the Chanson de Roland)
• vacant (795-812)
• Wulfaire (812-816)
• Ebbo (816-835)
• vacant (835-840)
• Ebbo (840-841), again
• vacant (841-845)
• Hincmar (845-882)
• Fulk the Venerable (882-900)
• Herive (900-922)
• Seulf (922-925)
• Hugh of Vermandois (925-931), son of Herbert II of Vermandois
• Artaud (931-940)
• Hugh of Vermandois (940-946)
• Artaud (946-961)
• Odelric (962-969)
• Adalberon (969-988)
• Arnoul (988-991; son of Lothair of France)
• Gerbert of Aurillac (991-999); later Pope Sylvester II
• Arnoul (999-1021), again

1000-1300

• Ebles I of Roucy (1021–1033; count of Roucy, count of Reims, 1023–1033)
• Guy of Châtillon (1033–1055)
• Gervaise of Bellême (1055–1067)
• Manasses I (1069–1080)
• Renaud of Le Bellay (1083–1096)
• Manasses II (1096–1106)
• Gervaise of Rethel (1106; nominated by Philip I of France over Raoul the Green, but condemned by the Council of Troyes in 1106)
• Ralph the Green (1106–1124)
• Raymond of Martigné (1125–1138)
• Samson de Mauvoisin (1140–1161)
• Henry (1162–1175; son of Louis VI of France)
• William Whitehands (Guillaume de Blois) (1176–1202; son of Theobald II of Champagne)
• Guy Pare (1204–1206)
• Alberic of Humbert (1207–1218)
• William of Joinville (1219–1226)
• Henry of Dreux (1227–1240)
• Yves of Saint-Martin (1244–1249)
• Thomas of Beaumes (1249–1262)
• John of Courtenay-Champignelles (1266–1270)
• Peter Barbet (1273–1298)
• Robert of Courtenay-Champignelles (1299–1323)

1300-1500

• William of Trie (1324–1334)
• John of Vienne (1335–1351)
• Hugh of Arcy (1351–1352)
• Humbert (1352–1355; Dauphin de Viennois)
• John of Craon (1355–1373)
• Louis Thesart (1374–1375)
• Richard Picque (1374–1389)
• Ferry Cassinel (1389–1390)
• Guy of Roye (1391–1409)
• Simon of Cramaud (1409–1429)
• Peter Trousseau (1413-1413)
• Renaud of Chartres (1413–1443)
• James of Jouvenel des Ursins (1445–1457)
• John of Jouvenel des Ursins (1449–1473)
• Peter of Montfort-Laval (1474–1493)
• Robert Briçonnet (1493–1497)
• Guillaume Briçonnet (1497–1507)

1500-1700

• Charles Dominique de Carreto (1507–1514)
• Robert de Lenoncourt (1509–1532)
• John of Lorraine (1533–1550; son of René II, Duke of Lorraine
• Charles of Guise (1538–1574; nephew of John of Lorraine, son of Claude, Duke of Guise)
• Louis I of Guise (1574–1588; nephew of Charles of Guise, son of Francis, Duke of Guise)
• Nicolas de Pellevé (1588–1594)
• Philippe du Bec (1594–1605)
• Louis II of Guise (1605–1621; nephew of Louis I, son of Henry I, Duke of Guise)
• Gabriel de Sainte-Marie (1623–1629)
• Henry of Guise (1629–1641; nephew of Louis II, son of Charles, Duke of Guise)
• Léonor d'Estampes de Valençay (1641–1651)
• Henri de Savoie, 7th Duc de Nemours (1651–1659)
• Antonio Barberini (1659–1671)
• Charles Maurice Le Tellier (1671–1710)

1700-present

• François de Mailly (1710–1721)
• Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné (1722–1762)
• Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon (1763–1777)
• Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (1777–1816), (not recognized from 1790; Archbishop of Paris from 1817–1821)
• vacant
• Jean-Charles de Coucy (1801–1824)
• Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil (1824–1839)
• Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (1840–1866)
• Jean-Baptiste François Anne Thomas Landriot (1867–1874)
• Benoit-Marie Langénieux (1874–1905)
• Louis Luçon (1906–1930)
• Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1930–1940)
• Luigi Agostino Marmottin (1940–1960)
• Gabriel Auguste François Marty (1960–1968)
• Émile André Jean-Marie Maury (1968–1972)
• Jacques Eugène Louis Ménager (1973–1988)
• Jean Marie Julien Balland (1988–1995)
• Gérard Denis Auguste Defois (1995–1998)
• Thierry Jordan (1999–present)

See also

• Catholic Church in France
• Council of Reims

Sources

• Anselme. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique des Pairs de France. Vol. 2.
• Boussinecq, Georges and Laurent, Gustave. Histoire de Reims des origines jusqu'à nos jours. 1933. ISBN 2-86516-001-7
• Cusimano, Richard, ed., and Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis. The Deeds of Louis the Fat. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1992.
• Histoire de Reims. Pierre Desportes, ed. 1983. ISBN 2-7089-4722-2

External links

• Official website (French)
• Diocese of Reims at catholic-hierarchy.org