Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux


The former French Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, sometimes, just like the town, also known as the Diocese of Saint-Paul-en-Tricastin, existed from the sixth century to the French Revolution.
Its see was at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, in the modern department of Drôme, southern France. Its territory was included in the expanded Diocese of Valence, by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801.

History

Ancient Augusta Tricastinorum became a bishopric in the Roman province of Gallia Viennensis by the IVth century. It first historically recorded bishop seems Florentius, participant at the Council of Epaone in 517.
According to a legend of the fifteenth century, St. Restitutus, first Bishop of St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, was the man born blind, mentioned in the Gospel. Local traditions also make Saints Eusebuis, Torquatus, Paulus, Amantius, Sulpicius, Bonifatius, Castorinus and Michael early bishops of St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux. Of those, Louis Duchesne regards St. Paulus, patron saint of the city, as the only known bishop, after whom the see was named.
The Diocese of St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux was always dependent on the archdiocese of Arles. Among its bishops were Heraclius, correspondent of St. Avitus; Saint Martin des Ormeaux, who became a solitary.
Owing to Saracen ravages from Iberia the see of St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux was, by Decree of Gregory IV, united aeque principaliter with that of Orange until 1107, when the Diocese of Orange was re-established.
In 1911.06.12, it was united with the Diocese of Valence. Its Former Cathedral, Ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame et Saint-Paul, dedicated to Saint-Paul and Our Lady, was not granted co-cathedral status.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops