Diocese of La Rochelle et Saintes
DIOCESE OF LA ROCHELLE ET SAINTES (Dioecesis Rupellensis et Santonensis)
Country : France
Denomination : Roman Catholic
Established : 1648 as Diocese of La Rochelle
Additions: 1801 Diocese of Saintes
Renamed in 1852 to Diocese of La Rochelle et Saintes (or Diocese of La Rochelle (-Saintes) )
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Arms of Bishops
Jacques Raoul de la Guibourgère (1648-1661)
Henri Marie de Laval-Bois-Dauphin (1661-1693)
Charles-Madeleine Frézeau de Frézelière (1693-1702)
Etienne de Champflour (1702-1724)
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine de Brancas (1725-1729)
Augustin-Roch de Menou de Charnisai (1730-1767)
François-Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès (1768-1789)
Jean-Charles de Coucy (1789-1801)
- Did not use arms
Jean-François de Mandolx (1802-1804)
Gabriel-Laurent Paillou (1804-1826)
Joseph Bernet (1827-1835)
Clément Villecourt (1835-1855)
Jean-François Landriot (1856-1866)
Léon-Benoit-Charles Thomas (1867-1883)
Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin (1884-1892)
François-Joseph-Edwin Bonnefoy (1892-1901)
Emile-Paul-Angel-Constant Le Camus (1901-1906)
Jean-Auguste-François-Eutrope Eyssautier (1906-1923)
- No image
Eugène Curien (1923-1937)
- No image
Louis Liagre (1938-1955)
- No image
Xavier Morilleau (1955-1963)
- No image
Félix-Marie-Honoré Verdet (1963-1979)
- No image
François-Marie-Christian Favreau (1979-1983)
- No image
Jacques Louis Antoine Marie David (1985-1996)
- No image
Georges Paul Pontier (1996-2006)
Bernard Housset (2006-2016)
- No image
Georges Colomb (2016-present)
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