Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vannes is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.
Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral in the city of Vannes. The diocese corresponds to the department of Morbihan, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo. Raymond Michel René Centène is the current bishop since his appointment in 2005.History
In 1801, the diocese was expanded after the Concordat of 1802, to include part of the ancient Diocese of Saint-Malo, which was subsequently suppressed, after a three way split among the Dioceses of Vannes and Saint-Brieuc and the Archdiocese of Rennes.In fiction
makes Aramis the local Ordinary of the Diocese of Vannes in , the last book of his d'Artagnan Romances.Bishops of Vannes
to 1600
- Amaury de la Motte d'Acigné †
- 1476–1490: Cardinal Pierre de Foix the Younger
- 1490–1503 Lorenzo Cybo de Mari
- 1504–1511: Jacques II. de Beaune de Semblançay
- 26 February 1511 – 1513: Cardinal Robert Guibé
- 30 July 1514 – 26 September 1531: Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci
- 1531–1544: Cardinal Antonio Pucci
- 1544–1548: Laurent III. Pucci
- 1550–1557: Charles de Marillac
- 1557–1558: Sébastien de L'Aubespine
- 1559–1566: Philippe du Bec
- 1566–1570: Jean Le Feuvre
- 1572–1573: Pierre de Saint-Martin
- 31 May–August, 1574: Jean de La Haye
- 1574–1588: Louis de La Haye
- 1592–1596: Georges d'Aradon
1600 to 1800
- 1599–1622: Jacques Martin
- 1622–1646: Sébastien de Rosmadec
- 1648–1671: Charles de Rosmadec
- 1671–1687: Louis Casset de Vautorte
- 1687–1716: François d'Argouges
- 1716–1717: Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan
- 1717–1719: Jean-François-Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin
- Antoine Fagon †
- Jean-Joseph Chapelle de Saint-Jean de Jumilhac †
- Charles-Jean de Bertin †
- Sébastien-Michel Amelot †
since 1800
- Antoine-Xavier Maynaud de Pancemont †
- Pierre-François-Gabriel-Raymond-Ignace-Ferdinand de Bausset-Roquefort †
- Henri-Marie-Clauce de Bruc-Montplaisir †
- Simon Garnier †
- Charles-Jean de la Motte de Broons et de Vauvert †
- Louis-Anne Dubreil †
- Jean-Baptiste Charles Gazailhan †
- Jean-Marie Bécel †
- Amédée-Jean-Baptiste Latieule †
- Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud †
- Hippolyte Tréhiou †
- Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec †
- Pierre-Auguste-Marie Boussard †
- François-Mathurin Gourvès
- Raymond Michel René Centène
Studies
- second edition pp. 375–379.
