Archdiocese of Besançon

ARCHDIOCESE OF BESANÇON (Archidioecesis Bisuntina)

Country : France
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : ca 200
Elevated to archdiocese ca 400

Official blazon

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Origin/meaning

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Arms of Archbishops

Hugues de Châlons (1302-1312)
Jean de La Rochetaillée (Administrator, 1429-1437)
Francesco Condulmer (1437-1438)
Quentin Menard (1439-1462)
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Antoine I. de Vergy (1502-1541)
Pierre de la Beaume (1541-1544)
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Claude III. de la Beaume (1544-1584)
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1584-1586)
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Ferdinand de Rye (1586-1636)
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Claude IV. de Achey (1637-1654)
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Charles Emanuel de Gorrevot (1654-1659)
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Jean Jacques Fauche (1659-1662)
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Antoine Pierre I. de Gramont (1662-1698)
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Francois-Joseph de Grammont (1698-1717)
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René de Mornay (1717-1721)
Honoré-François Grimaldi de Monaco (1723-1731)
Antoine-François de Bliterswick de Montcley (1733-1734)
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Antoine Pierre II. de Grammont (1735-1754)
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Antoine Clairiard de Choiseul de Beaupré (1754-1774)
Raymond de Durfort (1774-1792)
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Philippe-Charles-François Seguin (1791-1793)
Claude Le Coz (1802-1815)
Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny (1819-1823)
Paul-Ambroise Frère de Villefrancon (1823-1828)
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Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1828-1833)
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Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg (1833)
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu (1834-1875)
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Pierre-Antoine-Justin Paulinier (1875-1881)
Joseph Alfred Foulon (1882-1887 )
Arthur-Xavier Ducellier (1887-1893)
Marie-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste-André-Clément-Fulbert Petit (1894-1909)
François-Léon Gauthey (1910-1918)
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Joseph-Marie-Louis Humbrecht (1918-1927)
Charles Binet (1927-1936)
Maurice-Louis Dubourg (1936-1954)
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Marcel-Marie-Henri-Paul Dubois (1954-1966)
Marc-Armand Lallier (1966-1980)
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Lucien Daloz (1980-2003)
André Jean René Lacrampe (2003-2013)
Jean-Luc Maurice Louis Bouilleret (2013-present)

Arms of Auxiliary bishops

François Richardot (1554-1561)
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Claude-François-Ignace Franchet de Rans (1756-1810)

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