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Diocese of Nîmes
The Diocese of Nîmes (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis; French: Diocèse de Nîmes) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises all of the department of Gard.
By the Concordat of 1801 the Diocese of Nîmes was not restored, and the territory of the former Diocese of Gard was assigned to the Diocese of Avignon. Nîmes was re-established as a separate diocese in 1821 and a Brief of 27 April 1877, granted 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, the formal name is the Diocese of Nîmes (–Uzès and Alès) (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis (–Uticensis et Alesiensis); French: Diocèse de Nîmes (–Uzès et Alès)).
Nîmes (Latin: Nemausus) was an important city in Roman antiquity, located on the Via Domitia, the principal land route between the Iberian peninsula and Italy. The Pont du Gard, an aqueduct once the major source of fresh water, is c. 27km or 17 mi east-northeast of Nîmes.
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) of Toulouse. A martyr of Nîmes was St. Baudilus, whose martyrdom is variously placed at the end of the 3rd century, or at the end of the 4th.
There was a see at Nîmes at least as early as 396, for in that year a synodical letter was sent by the twenty-one bishops of a council of Nîmes to the bishops of Gaul. Many writers affirm that a certain Felix of Nîmes, killed by the Vandals about 407, was a Bishop of Nîmes, but this is disputed by Louis Duchesne.
The first bishop whose date is positively known is Sedatus, present at the Council of Agde in 506.
In 737, Charles Martel set fire to the city of Nemausus, which at that time was in the hands of the Saracens.
Bishop Gilbert (c. 875–892) attended the council of the province of Narbonne, summoned by Archbishop Theodard, at a place called Portus in the diocese of Nîmes. It was held in 886, 887, or slightly later.
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Diocese of Nîmes
The Diocese of Nîmes (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis; French: Diocèse de Nîmes) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises all of the department of Gard.
By the Concordat of 1801 the Diocese of Nîmes was not restored, and the territory of the former Diocese of Gard was assigned to the Diocese of Avignon. Nîmes was re-established as a separate diocese in 1821 and a Brief of 27 April 1877, granted 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, the formal name is the Diocese of Nîmes (–Uzès and Alès) (Latin: Dioecesis Nemausensis (–Uticensis et Alesiensis); French: Diocèse de Nîmes (–Uzès et Alès)).
Nîmes (Latin: Nemausus) was an important city in Roman antiquity, located on the Via Domitia, the principal land route between the Iberian peninsula and Italy. The Pont du Gard, an aqueduct once the major source of fresh water, is c. 27km or 17 mi east-northeast of Nîmes.
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) of Toulouse. A martyr of Nîmes was St. Baudilus, whose martyrdom is variously placed at the end of the 3rd century, or at the end of the 4th.
There was a see at Nîmes at least as early as 396, for in that year a synodical letter was sent by the twenty-one bishops of a council of Nîmes to the bishops of Gaul. Many writers affirm that a certain Felix of Nîmes, killed by the Vandals about 407, was a Bishop of Nîmes, but this is disputed by Louis Duchesne.
The first bishop whose date is positively known is Sedatus, present at the Council of Agde in 506.
In 737, Charles Martel set fire to the city of Nemausus, which at that time was in the hands of the Saracens.
Bishop Gilbert (c. 875–892) attended the council of the province of Narbonne, summoned by Archbishop Theodard, at a place called Portus in the diocese of Nîmes. It was held in 886, 887, or slightly later.
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