*** Welcome to piglix ***

Diocese of Nimes

Diocese of Nîmes (–Uzès e Alès)
Dioecesis Nemausensis (–Uticensis et Alesiensis)
Diocèse de Nîmes (–Uzès et Alès)
Facade - Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor - Nîmes 2014.jpg
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Montpellier
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Montpellier
Statistics
Area 5,880 km2 (2,270 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
623,125
364,523 (58.5%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established Name Changed: 27 April 1877
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady and St. Castor in Nîmes
Patron saint Notre Dame
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Robert Wattebled
Metropolitan Archbishop Pierre-Marie Carré
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nîmes (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis; French: Diocèse de Nîmes) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese comprises all of the department of Gard. It is suffragan of the Diocese of Avignon.

By the Concordat of 1801 its territory was united with the Diocese of Avignon. It was re-established as a separate diocese in 1821 and a Brief of 27 April 1877, grants to its bishops the right to add Alais (the modern Alès) and Uzès to their episcopal style, these two dioceses being now combined with that of Nîmes. Therefore, correctly it is the Diocese of Nîmes (–Uzès e Alès) (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis (–Uticensis et Alesiensis); French: Diocèse de Nîmes (–Uzès et Alès)).

Nîmes (Latin: ) was an important city in Roman antiquity. The Pont du Gard is not far away.

Late and rather contradictory traditions attribute the foundation of the Church of Nîmes either to Celidonius, the man "who was blind from his birth" of the Gospel, or to St. Honestus, the apostle of Navarre, said to have been sent to southern France by St. Peter, with St. Saturninus (Sernin), the apostle of Toulouse. The true apostle of Nîmes was St. Baudilus, whose martyrdom is placed by some at the end of the 3rd century, and by others at the end of the fourth. Many writers affirm that a certain St. Felix, martyred by the Vandals about 407, was Bishop of Nîmes, but Louis Duchesne questions this.


...
Wikipedia

...