Ancient Diocese of Narbonne

The former Catholic diocese of Narbonne existed from early Christian times until the French Revolution. It was an archdiocese, with its see at Narbonne, from the year 445^[1], and its influence ran over much of south-western France and into Catalonia. Diminished by the creation of other dioceses in 1317, its territory was merged under the Concordat of 1801 into the diocese of Carcassonne. The title Archbishop of Narbonne, however, belongs to the Archbishop of Toulouse. An attempt after the Restoration to re-establish the see was defeated in the French parliament, with the result that a new metropolitan see was created for the Languedoc region at Montpellier in 2002.^[2]

Bishops and archbishops

To 1000

• Saint Paul I. (c. 251)
• Saint Etienne (third century)
• Gavidius (359)
• Hilaire (417–422)
• Rusticus (427, 461, c.441–445)
• Hermes (462) (first archbishop 445)
• Caprarpus (506)
• Aquilin (560)
• Athaloc (ca. 589)
• Migetius (Migecio) (ca. 589–597)
• Serge (c. 610)
• Selva (Sclua) (ca. 633–638)
• Argebaud (c. 672)
• Sunifred (ca. 683–688)
• Arriberi (ca. 768)
• Daniel (ca. 769-ca. 798)
• Nebridius (Nefridius) (ca. 790–822 or ca. 799-ca. 825)
• Bartholomeus (ca. 827–840 oder ca. 822–844)
• Berarius (ca. 842-ca. 850)
• Fredoldus (ca. 855–872)
• Sigebaud (873–885)
• Theodard (Teodard) (885–893)
• Arnust (893–912)
• Gerard (911)
• Agio (914–924)
• Aimery (926–977)
• Ermengaud (Ermengol) (977-1017/1019)

1000–1300

• Guifred de Cerdagne^[3] (6 October 1019–1079)
• Pierre Berengar (1079–1085)
• Dalmas (Dalmace) (c. 1086–1097)
• Bertrand de Montredon (1097–1106)
• Richard de Millau (Milhau) (1106–1121)
• Arnaud de Lévezou (1121–1149) (also bishop of Béziers)
• Pierre d'Anduze (1150–1156)
• Berengar (1156–1162)
• Pons D'Arce (1162–1181)
• Bernard Gaucelin (1182–1191) (also bishop of Béziers)
• Berengar of Barcelona (1191–1212); son of Raimund Berengar IV
• Arnaldus Amalric (or Arnaud Amaury) (1212–1225)
• Pierre (1226–1245)
• Guillaume de Broue (1245–1257)
• Jacques (1257–1259)
• Guido Fulcodi (1259–1261)
• Maurin (1262–1272)
• Pierre de Montbrun (1272–1286)
• Gilles I Aycelin de Montaigu (1287–1311)

From 1300

• Bernard de Fargis (1311–1341)
• Gausbert du Val (1341–1346) (Cardinal)
• Pierre de La Jugie (1347–1375)
• Jean Roger (1375–1391)
• François de Conziè (1391–1432)
• Francesco Condulmer (1433–1436) (Cardinal)
• Jean D'Harcourt (1436–1451) (also Patriarch of Alexandria)
• Louis D'Harcourt (1451–1460)
• Antoine du Bec-Crespin (1460–1472)
• Renaud de Bourbon (1473–1482)
• Georges d'Amboise (1482–1484)
• François Ilallé (1484–1491)
• Georges d'Amboise, second time, (1492–1494)
• Pierre D'Abzac (1494–1502)
• François-Guillaume de Castelnau (1502–1507)
• Guillaume Briçonnet (1507–1514)
• Giulio de Medici (1515–1523)
• John, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524–1550)
• Ippolito II d'Este, Cardinal of Ferrara (1550–1551)
• Francesco Pisani (1551–1563) (Cardinal)
• Ippolito II. d'Este (1563–1572)
• Simon Vigor (1572–1575)
• François de Joyeuse (1581–1588)
• Louis de Vervins (1600–1628)
• Claude de Rebé (1628–1659)
• François Fouquet (1659–1673)
• Pierre de Bonzi (1673–1703) (also archbishop of Toulouse)
• Charles Legoux de La Berchère (1711–1715)
• René-François de Beauvau du Rivau (1726–1738)
• Jean-Louis de Berton de Crillon (1739–1751)
• Charles-Antoine de La Roche-Aimon (1752–1762)
• Arthur Richard de Dillon (1763–1790) (1806)
• N. Besancelle (1790?–1793?)

Notes

1. ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dn513.html
2. ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Carcassonne
3. ^ Son of Wilfred II of Cerdanya.