Poitiers (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Bishop(s)

Vacant
Albert Jean-Marie Rouet, Archbishop Emeritus

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Archdiocese
Elevated: 8 December 2002
Metropolitan See
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
Country: France
Square Kilometers: 12,989 (5,017 Square Miles)
Conference Region: Sud-Ouest
Official Web Site: http://www.poitiers.catholique.fr/
Mailing Address: Archevêché, 1-3 place Sainte-Croix, 86035 Poitiers CEDEX, France
Telephone: 5.49.50.12.00

Historical Details

Diocese of Poitiers
- Latin Name: Pictaviensis
- Erected: 3rd Century
- Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
- Country: France

Past and Present Ordinaries

St. Hilary of Poitiers † ( 353 Appointed - 368 Died)
St. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunato † ( 599 Appointed - 607 Died)
Gilbert † ( 975 Appointed - 1018 Died)
Guillaume † ( 1124 Appointed - 6 Oct 1140 Died)
Grimoard † ( 1141 Appointed - )
Jean de Belleme (Bellesmains) † ( 1162 Appointed - 1181 Appointed, Archbishop of Lyon)
Adhémar de Peirat † ( 1198 Appointed - Aug 1198 Died)
Maurice de Blazon † (21 Dec 1198 Appointed - 1214 Died)
Guillaume Prévost † ( 1217 Appointed - 1225 Died)
Philippe Balleos † ( 1226 Appointed - 1234 Died)
Jean de Melun † ( 1235 Appointed - 11 Sep 1257 Died)
Hugues de Cháteroux † ( 1259 Appointed - 14 Oct 1271 Died)
Bl. Gauthier de Bruges, O.F.M. † (4 Dec 1279 Appointed - 1306 Resigned)
Arnaud d’Aux † (4 Nov 1306 Appointed - 23 Dec 1312 Appointed, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano)
Fortius d’Auch † (29 Mar 1314 Appointed - 8 Mar 1357 Died)
Jean de Lieux † (27 Nov 1357 Appointed - Aug 1362 Died)
Raymond † (19 Dec 1362 Appointed - 1363 Died)
Aimery de Mons † ( 1363 Appointed - 3 Mar 1370 Died)
Guy de Malsec † (9 Apr 1371 Appointed - 20 Dec 1375 Appointed, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme)
Bertrand de Cosnac (Maumont) † (9 Jan 1376 Appointed - 12 Aug 1385 Died)
Simon de Cramaud † (24 Nov 1385 Appointed - 17 Mar 1391 Appointed, Titular Patriarch of Alexandria {Alessandria})
Louis d’Orléans † (17 Mar 1391 Appointed - 2 Apr 1395 Appointed, Bishop of Beauvais)
Ythier de Martreuil † (2 Apr 1395 Appointed - 1403 Died)
Gérard de Montaigu † (27 Sep 1403 Appointed - 24 Jul 1409 Appointed, Bishop of Paris)
Pierre Trousseau † (11 Sep 1409 Appointed - 2 May 1413 Appointed, Archbishop of Reims)
Simon de Cramaud † (14 Apr 1413 Appointed - 15 Dec 1422 Died)
Louis de Bar † (3 Mar 1423 Appointed - 14 Feb 1424 Appointed, Administrator of Verdun)
Hugues Combarel † (14 Feb 1424 Appointed - )
Guillaume Gouge de Charpaignes † (15 Dec 1441 Appointed - )
Giacomo Juvénal des Ursins † (3 Mar 1449 Appointed - 12 Mar 1457 Died)
Léon Guérinet † ( 1457 Appointed - 15 Apr 1462 Appointed, Bishop of Fréjus)
Jean du Bellay, O.S.B. † (15 Apr 1462 Appointed - 3 Sep 1479 Died)
Guillaume de Cluny † (26 Oct 1479 Appointed - 1481 Died)
Pierre d’Amboise, O.S.B. † (21 Nov 1481 Appointed - 1 Sep 1505 Died)
Jean-François de la Trémoille † (5 Dec 1505 Appointed - 19 Jun 1507 Died)
Claude de Husson † (10 Sep 1507 Appointed - 1521 Died)
Louis de Tenodoro (Tonneriae) † (23 Aug 1521 Appointed - 1532 Resigned)
Gabriel de Gramont † (13 Jan 1532 Appointed - 26 Mar 1534 Died)
Claude de Longwy de Givry † (29 Apr 1534 Appointed - 30 Jan 1551 Resigned)
Jean d’Amoncourt † (30 Jan 1551 Appointed - )
Charles d’Escars de Pérusse † (13 Mar 1560 Appointed - 19 Dec 1569 Appointed, Bishop of Langres)
Jean du Fay, O.S.B. † (3 Mar 1572 Appointed - 1577 Resigned)
Geoffroy de Saint-Belin, O. Cist. † (27 Mar 1577 Appointed - 21 Nov 1611 Died)
Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay † (19 Mar 1612 Appointed - 30 Jul 1651 Died)
Gilbert de Clérembault † (1 Apr 1658 Confirmed - 3 Jan 1680 Died)
Hardouin Fortin de la Hoguette † (15 Jul 1680 Confirmed - 21 Jan 1692 Confirmed, Archbishop of Sens)
François-Ignace de Baglion du Saillant, C.O. † (23 Nov 1693 Confirmed - 26 Jan 1698 Died)
Antoine Girard de La Bornat (La Bournat) † (15 Sep 1698 Confirmed - 8 Mar 1702 Died)
Jean-Claude de La Poype de Vertrieu † (25 Sep 1702 Confirmed - 3 Feb 1732 Died)
Jérôme-Louis de Foudras de Courcenay † (3 Feb 1732 Succeeded - 13 Aug 1748 Died)
Jean-Louis de La Marthonie de Caussade † (21 Apr 1749 Confirmed - 12 Mar 1759 Resigned)
Martial-Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire † (9 Apr 1759 Confirmed - 17 Jan 1798 Died)
Luc-Jean-Baptiste Bailly † (19 Oct 1802 Confirmed - 8 Apr 1804 Died)
Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt † (1 Feb 1805 Confirmed - 27 Mar 1809 Confirmed, Archbishop of Mechelen)
Jean-Baptiste de Bouillé † (1 Oct 1817 Confirmed - 14 Jan 1842 Died)
André-Joseph Guitton † (23 May 1842 Confirmed - 7 May 1849 Died)
Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Pie † (28 Sep 1849 Confirmed - 18 May 1880 Died)
Jacques-Edne-Henri-Philadelphe Bellot des Minières † (13 Dec 1880 Confirmed - 15 Mar 1888 Died)
André-Hubert Juteau † (14 Feb 1889 Confirmed - 25 Nov 1893 Died)
Henri Pelgé † (18 May 1894 Confirmed - 31 May 1911 Died)
Louis Humbrecht † (1 Sep 1911 Appointed - 14 Sep 1918 Appointed, Archbishop of Besançon)
Marie-Augustin-Olivier de Durfort de Civbac de Lorge † (3 Sep 1918 Appointed - 22 Dec 1932 Resigned)
Édouard Gabriel Mesguen † (7 Dec 1933 Appointed - 4 Aug 1956 Died)
Henri-Louis-Toussaint Vion † (4 Aug 1956 Succeeded - 5 Jul 1975 Resigned)
Joseph Jean Marie Rozier † (5 Jul 1975 Succeeded - 12 Jun 1994 Died)
Albert Jean-Marie Rouet (12 Jun 1994 Succeeded - 12 Feb 2011 Retired)
Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (13 Jan 2012 Appointed - 6 Aug 2024 Appointed, Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre))

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Poitiers
3rd Century	Erected		Diocese of Poitiers (erected)
11 July 1317	Territory Lost	Diocese of Poitiers	Diocese of Maillezais (erected)
16 August 1317	Territory Lost	Diocese of Poitiers	Diocese of Luçon (erected)
29 November 1801	Territory Added	Diocese of Saintes (suppressed)	Diocese of Angoulême Diocese of La Rochelle Diocese of Poitiers
23 July 1974	Territory Lost	Diocese of Poitiers (Puy-Saint-Bonnet)	Diocese of Angers
Archdiocese of Poitiers
8 December 2002	Elevated	Diocese of Poitiers	Archdiocese of Poitiers

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Diocese of Poitiers

1950 580,000 613,487 94.5% 666 126 792 732 152 1,703 643 ap1951

1970 632,000 666,718 94.8% 606 123 729 866 168 1,105 605 ap1971

1980 665,000 698,000 95.3% 456 87 543 1,224 2 129 851 604 ap1981

1990 693,000 716,000 96.8% 379 58 437 1,585 20 117 1,015 604 ap1991

1999 672,610 725,942 92.7% 300 14 314 2,142 25 47 699 604 ap2000

2000 670,000 744,342 90.0% 294 12 306 2,189 26 27 674 604 ap2001

2001 669,000 743,416 90.0% 290 13 303 2,207 26 44 665 604 ap2002

Archdiocese of Poitiers

2002 669,000 743,411 90.0% 279 12 291 2,298 27 45 595 604 ap2003

2003 670,000 743,417 90.1% 268 9 277 2,418 30 39 558 604 ap2004

2004 670,000 743,417 90.1% 261 36 297 2,255 33 53 535 604 ap2005

2013 670,000 790,900 84.7% 198 25 223 3,004 39 47 379 604 ap2014

2016 652,731 801,601 81.4% 171 10 181 3,606 44 36 352 600 ap2017

2019 659,400 810,813 81.3% 157 157 4,200 43 26 32 28 ap2020

2021 661,000 812,900 81.3% 150 5 155 4,264 44 31 24 28 ap2022

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Diocese of Poitiers
1950	580,000	613,487	94.5%	666	126	792	732		152	1,703	643	ap1951
1970	632,000	666,718	94.8%	606	123	729	866		168	1,105	605	ap1971
1980	665,000	698,000	95.3%	456	87	543	1,224	2	129	851	604	ap1981
1990	693,000	716,000	96.8%	379	58	437	1,585	20	117	1,015	604	ap1991
1999	672,610	725,942	92.7%	300	14	314	2,142	25	47	699	604	ap2000
2000	670,000	744,342	90.0%	294	12	306	2,189	26	27	674	604	ap2001
2001	669,000	743,416	90.0%	290	13	303	2,207	26	44	665	604	ap2002
Archdiocese of Poitiers
2002	669,000	743,411	90.0%	279	12	291	2,298	27	45	595	604	ap2003
2003	670,000	743,417	90.1%	268	9	277	2,418	30	39	558	604	ap2004
2004	670,000	743,417	90.1%	261	36	297	2,255	33	53	535	604	ap2005
2013	670,000	790,900	84.7%	198	25	223	3,004	39	47	379	604	ap2014
2016	652,731	801,601	81.4%	171	10	181	3,606	44	36	352	600	ap2017
2019	659,400	810,813	81.3%	157		157	4,200	43	26	32	28	ap2020
2021	661,000	812,900	81.3%	150	5	155	4,264	44	31	24	28	ap2022

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Living

Claude Jean Pierre Dagens (Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Jul 1987 to 15 Jun 1993)
Albert Jean-Marie Rouet (Coadjutor Bishop: 16 Dec 1993; Bishop: 12 Jun 1994; Archbishop: 8 Dec 2002 to 12 Feb 2011)
Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (Auxiliary Bishop: 2 Apr 2007; Apostolic Administrator: 12 Feb 2011; Archbishop: 13 Jan 2012 to 6 Aug 2024)

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Fortius d’Auch † (Bishop: 29 Mar 1314 to 8 Mar 1357)
Philippe-Prosper Augouard, C.S.Sp. †
Arnaud d’Aux † (Bishop: 4 Nov 1306 to 23 Dec 1312)
François-Ignace de Baglion du Saillant, C.O. † (Bishop: 23 Nov 1693 to 26 Jan 1698)
Luc-Jean-Baptiste Bailly † (Bishop: 19 Oct 1802 to 8 Apr 1804)
Philippe Balleos † (Bishop: 1226 to 1234)
Jean Balue †
Louis de Bar † (Administrator: 3 Mar 1423 to 14 Feb 1424)
Antonio Barberini (Jr.), O.S.Io.Hieros. †
Martial-Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire † (Bishop: 9 Apr 1759 to 17 Jan 1798)
Jean du Bellay, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 15 Apr 1462 to 3 Sep 1479)
Jean de Belleme (Bellesmains) † (Bishop: 1162 to 1181)
Jacques-Edne-Henri-Philadelphe Bellot des Minières † (Bishop: 13 Dec 1880 to 15 Mar 1888)
Antonio Bienvenu, O. Carm. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 17 May 1521 to 1523)
Maurice de Blazon † (Bishop: 21 Dec 1198 to 1214)
Barthelemy Bodin † (Auxiliary Bishop: 25 Feb 1549)
Jean-Baptiste de Bouillé † (Bishop: 1 Oct 1817 to 14 Jan 1842)
Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey † (Priest: 21 Aug 1853 to 27 Feb 1880)
Bl. Gauthier de Bruges, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 4 Dec 1279 to 1306)
Pierre-Abel-Louis Chappot de la Chanonie † (Priest: 19 Sep 1925 to 17 Mar 1953)
Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay † (Bishop: 19 Mar 1612 to 30 Jul 1651)
Hugues de Cháteroux † (Bishop: 1259 to 14 Oct 1271)
Hilaire Chervi, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 6 Apr 1554)
Gilbert de Clérembault † (Bishop: 1 Apr 1658 to 3 Jan 1680)
Guillaume de Cluny † (Bishop: 26 Oct 1479 to 1481)
Hugues Combarel † (Bishop: 14 Feb 1424)
Bertrand de Cosnac (Maumont) † (Bishop: 9 Jan 1376 to 12 Aug 1385)
Simon de Cramaud † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1385 to 17 Mar 1391; Administrator: 14 Apr 1413 to 15 Dec 1422)
Pierre d’Amboise, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 21 Nov 1481 to 1 Sep 1505)
Jean d’Amoncourt † (Bishop: 30 Jan 1551 - )
Charles d’Escars de Pérusse † (Bishop: 13 Mar 1560 to 19 Dec 1569)
Louis d’Orléans † (Bishop: 17 Mar 1391 to 2 Apr 1395)
Jean du Fay, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 3 Mar 1572 to 1577)
Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt † (Bishop: 1 Feb 1805 to 27 Mar 1809)
Marie-Augustin-Olivier de Durfort de Civbac de Lorge † (Bishop: 3 Sep 1918 to 22 Dec 1932)
François-Marie-Christian Favreau † (Priest: 30 Jun 1952 to 24 Nov 1972)
Hardouin Fortin de la Hoguette † (Bishop: 15 Jul 1680 to 21 Jan 1692)
St. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunato † (Bishop: 599 to 607)
Jérôme-Louis de Foudras de Courcenay † (Coadjutor Bishop: 1 Dec 1721; Bishop: 3 Feb 1732 to 13 Aug 1748)
Charles-Louis Gay † (Auxiliary Bishop: 23 Oct 1877 to 18 May 1880)
Antoine Girard de La Bornat (La Bournat) † (Bishop: 15 Sep 1698 to 8 Mar 1702)
Guillaume Gouge de Charpaignes † (Bishop: 15 Dec 1441)
Gabriel de Gramont † (Bishop: 13 Jan 1532 to 26 Mar 1534)
Léon Guérinet † (Bishop: 1457 to 15 Apr 1462)
André-Joseph Guitton † (Bishop: 23 May 1842 to 7 May 1849)
Louis Humbrecht † (Bishop: 1 Sep 1911 to 14 Sep 1918)
Claude de Husson † (Bishop: 10 Sep 1507 to 1521)
Louis Jolly, M.E.P. †
Henri Joulain, O.M.I. †
André-Hubert Juteau † (Bishop: 14 Feb 1889 to 25 Nov 1893)
Giacomo Juvénal des Ursins † (Bishop: 3 Mar 1449 to 12 Mar 1457)
Jean-Louis de La Marthonie de Caussade † (Bishop: 21 Apr 1749 to 12 Mar 1759)
Jean-Claude de La Poype de Vertrieu † (Bishop: 25 Sep 1702 to 3 Feb 1732)
Jean-François de la Trémoille † (Administrator: 5 Dec 1505 to 19 Jun 1507)
Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre † (Priest: 17 Dec 1921 to 27 Jul 1938)
Pierre Léger, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 22 May 1450)
Jean de Lieux † (Bishop: 27 Nov 1357 to Aug 1362)
Claude de Longwy de Givry † (Administrator: 29 Apr 1534 to 30 Jan 1551)
Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC. †
Guy de Malsec † (Bishop: 9 Apr 1371 to 20 Dec 1375)
Ythier de Martreuil † (Bishop: 2 Apr 1395 to 1403)
Jean Masson, O. Carm. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 6 Jul 1523 to 1548)
Jean de Melun † (Bishop: 1235 to 11 Sep 1257)
Édouard Gabriel Mesguen † (Bishop: 7 Dec 1933 to 4 Aug 1956)
Aimery de Mons † (Bishop: 1363 to 3 Mar 1370)
Gérard de Montaigu † (Bishop: 27 Sep 1403 to 24 Jul 1409)
Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu †
Adhémar de Peirat † (Bishop: 1198 to Aug 1198)
Henri Pelgé † (Bishop: 18 May 1894 to 31 May 1911)
Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Pie † (Bishop: 28 Sep 1849 to 18 May 1880)
Cerebruno de Poitiers †
St. Hilary of Poitiers † (Bishop: 353 to 368)
Guillaume Prévost † (Bishop: 1217 to 1225)
Louis-Hippolyte-Aristide Raguit, M.E.P. †
Joseph Jean Marie Rozier † (Coadjutor Bishop: 11 Apr 1973; Bishop: 5 Jul 1975 to 12 Jun 1994)
Geoffroy de Saint-Belin, O. Cist. † (Bishop: 27 Mar 1577 to 21 Nov 1611)
Jean (a Grignasco) Saliaschi, O.F.M. Cap. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 1581 to 1592)
Louis de Tenodoro (Tonneriae) † (Bishop: 23 Aug 1521 to 1532)
Pierre Trousseau † (Bishop: 11 Sep 1409 to 2 May 1413)
Henri-Louis-Toussaint Vion † (Coadjutor Bishop: 18 Aug 1948; Bishop: 4 Aug 1956 to 5 Jul 1975)
Gilbert † (Bishop: 975 to 1018)
Grimoard † (Bishop: 1141 - )
Guillaume † (Bishop: 1124 to 6 Oct 1140)
Raymond † (Bishop: 19 Dec 1362 to 1363)

Source(s)

Diocese of Poitiers
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 399
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 216
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 273, and Page 274
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 280
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 314
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 337
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 601, to Page 603

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