Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles

The Diocese of Versailles (Latin: Dioecesis Versaliensis; French: Diocèse de Versailles) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versailles, was established in 1801. Until then, its territory had mostly been part of the Archdiocese of Paris and the Diocese of Chartres. It was centred on Versailles.

Diocese of Versailles Dioecesis Versaliensis Diocèse de Versailles
Versailles Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Paris
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Paris
Statistics
Area	2,270 km2 (880 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2022) 1,441,398 929,000 (64.5%)
Parishes	65
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	29 November 1801
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Louis in Versailles
Patron saint	St. Louis IX of France
Secular priests	176 (Diocesan) 28 (Religious Orders) 67 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luc Crépy
Metropolitan Archbishop	Laurent Ulrich
Bishops emeritus	Éric Aumonier
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

History

On its creation, the territory of the diocese of Versailles corresponded to the département of Seine-et-Oise. Following the boundary changes of the départements of Île-de-France, new dioceses were established on 9 October 1966. The diocese of Versailles was therefore modified to correspond to the département of Yvelines, following the creation of the Dioceses of Évry–Corbeil-Essones, Nanterre, Saint-Denis, Créteil, Pontoise.

Bishops of Versailles

1. Louis Charrier de La Roche (1802–1827)
2. Jean-François-Étienne Borderies (1827–1832)
3. Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1832–1844)
4. Jean-Nicaise Gros (1844–1857)
5. Jean-Pierre Mabille (1858–1877)
6. Pierre-Antoine-Paul Goux (1877–1904)
7. Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier (1906–1931)
8. Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin (1931–1952)
9. Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard (1953–1967)
10. Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux (1967–1988)
11. Jean-Charles Thomas (1988–2001)
12. Éric Aumonier (2001–2020)
13. Lucien Crepy (2021–present)

The native bishops of Versailles

• Thierry Jordan, archbishop of Reims
• Stanislas Lalanne, bishop of Coutances et Avranches
• Olivier de Berranger, bishop of Saint-Denis
• Pascal Roland, bishop of Moulins
• Albert Malbois, bishop emeritus of Évry

Sources

• Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères. pp. 346–350.

External links

• Media related to Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles at Wikimedia Commons
• (in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
• (in French) Official site of the diocese
• (in English) Diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org