Senez

Senez
Senez
Administration
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement	Digne-les-Bains
Canton	Barrême
Intercommunality	Moyen Verdon
Mayor	Gilles Durand (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	748–1,720 m (2,454–5,640 ft) (avg. 780 m or 2,560 ft)
Land area1	70.27 km2 (27.13 sq mi)
Population2	186  (2008)
- Density	3 /km2 (7.8 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	04204/ 04330
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Senez is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Ecclesiastical history

Marcellus I, the first known bishop of Senez, attended the Council of Agde in 506; nevertheless, Senez must have been an episcopal city as early as 439.

Jean IV Soanen, the Oratorian, noted for his opposition to the Bull "Unigenitus", was Bishop of Senez from 1696 until the time of his deposition in 1727.

By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Digne was made to include the two departments of the Hautes-Alpes and Basses Alpes, in addition to the former diocese of Digne, the archdiocese of Embrun, the dioceses of Gap, Sisteron and Senez, a very considerable part of the diocese of Glandèves and diocese of Riez, and fourteen parishes in the Archdiocese of Aix and the Diocese of Apt.

In 1822 Gap was made an episcopal see and, thus divested of the department of the Hautes Alpes, the present diocese of Digne covers the territory formerly included in the dioceses of Digne, Senez, Glandèves, Riez, and Sisteron.

Population

Historical population of Senez

Year	1765	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
Population	673	765	768	750	787	913	856	860	887	872

Year	1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901
Population	857	800	750	675	606	575	552	525	488	472

Year	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968
Population	459	427	352	301	274	256	230	198	172	174

Year	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	134	153	121	145	186

See also

• Senez Cathedral
• Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

• INSEE

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