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Diocese of Tulle Dioecesis Tutelensis Diocèse de Tulle | |
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Poitiers |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Poitiers |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 5,896 km2 (2,276 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2022) 241,000 221,000 (91.7%) |
| Parishes | 296 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 11 July 1317 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Notre Dame and St. Martin |
| Patron saint | Saint Martin of Tours |
| Secular priests | 37 (Diocesan) 6 (Religious Orders) 10 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Francis Bestion |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Pascal Wintzer |
| Bishops emeritus | Bernard Louis Marie Charrier (since 2013) |
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| Website | |
| correze.catholique.fr | |
The Diocese of Tulle (Latin: Dioecesis Tutelensis; French: Diocèse de Tulle) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Tulle, France. The diocese of Tulle comprises the whole département of Corrèze.
The Abbey of Tulle was founded in the early 10th century. By the early 12th century, the abbot had established control over the pilgrimage church of Rocamadour. The abbacy was raised to a diocese in 1317, but suppressed by the Concordat of 1802, which joined it to the diocese of Limoges. In 1817, the diocese was re-established in principle, according to the terms of the Concordat of 1817,[1] but was re-erected canonically only by the papal Bulls dated 6 and 31 October 1822,[2] and made suffragan to the Archbishop of Bourges. Since the reorganization of French ecclesiastical provinces by Pope John Paul II on 8 December 2002, Tulle has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Poitiers.[3]
In 2022, in the Diocese of Tulle there was one priest for every 5,139 Catholics.
- ^ Pope Pius VII had noted in a Consistory of 23 August 1822 that various circumstances were delaying the carrying out of the reorganization of the French ecclesiastical provinces. On 27 September 1822 he wrote to the Bishop of Limoges that he had appointed a temporary Administrator of the Diocese of Tulle: Bullarii Romani Continuatio Tomus septimus (Prati 1852), pp. 2289-2290.
- ^ Bullarii Romani Continuatio Tomus septimus (Prati 1852), pp. 2294-2304;
- ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy, Diocese of Tulle, retrieved: 2016-09-19.