Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy

Diocese of Nancy and Toul

Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis

Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul
Location
CountryFrance
Ecclesiastical provinceBesançon
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Besançon
Statistics
Area5,275 km2 (2,037 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2017)
755,200
672,000 (89%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedUnited: 20 February 1824
CathedralCathedral of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation in Nancy
Patron saintThe Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed in Heaven
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopPierre-Yves Michel
Metropolitan ArchbishopJean-Luc Bouilleret
Bishops emeritusJean-Louis Papin
Map
locator map of diocese of Nancy
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Nancy and Toul (Latin: Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis; French: Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France.[1] After a considerable political struggle between Louis XV, Louis XVI, and the Dukes of Lorraine,[2] the diocese was erected by Pope Pius VI on 17 December 1777.[3] The Diocese of Nancy is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon.[4]

  1. ^ "Catholiques en Meurthe-et-Moselle". 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  2. ^ John McManners (1999). Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramification. Oxford University Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-0-19-827003-4.
  3. ^ Bullarii Romani Continuatio: summorum pontificum Clementis XIII, Clementis XIV, Pii VI, Pii VII, Leonis XII . (in Latin). Vol. Tomus quintus (Pii VI, anni 1-3). Rome: Typ. Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae. 1842. pp. 440–461. Gaetano Moroni, ed. (1847). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni specialmente intorno ai principali santi ... compilazione di Gaetano Moroni: Mos-Nic. 47 (in Italian). Rome: dalla Tipografia Emiliana. p. 159.
  4. ^ Diocese of Nancy (-Toul) from catholic-hierarchy.org