The Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat (Latin: Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis; French: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic ChurchinFrance. Its episcopal seeisPérigueux, in the départementofDordogne, in the régionofAquitaine. The Diocese of Périgueux is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux. The current bishop is Philippe Mousset, who was appointed in 2014.
Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat
Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis
Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Bordeaux |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Bordeaux |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 9,060 km2 (3,500 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 412,082 355,900 (86.4%) |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 3rd Century |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of St. Front in Périgueux |
| Patron saint | Saint Front |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Philippe Mousset |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Jean-Paul James |
| Bishops emeritus | Michel Mouïsse |
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| Website | |
| www.diocese24.catholique.fr | |
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The MartyrologyofAdo gives St. Front as the first bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361.
Among its bishops are:
The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of Pope Eugene III (1153). About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by pope John XXII, on 13 January 1318.
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