Roman Catholic Diocese of Tréguier

The former Breton and French diocese of Tréguier existed in Lower Brittany from about the sixth century, or later, to the French Revolution. Its see was at Tréguier, in the modern department of Côtes-d'Armor.

The title continues in the contemporary diocese of Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier.

History

St. Tudgual (Tugdual, Tudual),^[1] said to be the nephew of St. Brieuc (who had emigrated from Cardigan), was a bishop who came to Brittany from overseas (Scotland^[2]),^[3] and was appointed by his uncle Brieuc at the close of the fifth century as superior of the monastery of Tréguier, which Tudual had founded. The biography of St. Tudual, composed after the middle of the ninth century, relates that Tudual, wishing to confirm his authority by royal approval, travelled to the court of King Childebert I, who ordered him consecrated Bishop of Tréguier.^[4] Louis Duchesne, however, argued that it was King Nomenoe who, in the middle of the ninth century, had the monastery of Tréguier raised to the dignity of an episcopal see.^[5]

Numerous synods were held at Tréguier in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,^{[weasel words]} and passed regulations for the discipline of the Breton churches.^[6]

Bishops

to 1400

c. 1032: Wiliam I.
c. 1045: Martin
c. 1086: Hugo I. de Saint-Pabutral
c. 1110–c. 1128: Raoul I.
c. 1150–c. 1175: William II.
1175–1179: Ives I Hougnon
1179–c. 1220: Geoffroi I. Loiz
c. 1224–c. 1237: Stephan
c. 1238: Peter I.
1255–c. 1265: Hamon
c. 1266–c. 1271: Alain I. de Lezardrieu
c. 1284: Alain II. de Bruc
1286–c. 1310: Geoffroi II. de Tournemine
c. 1317: Jean I. Rigaud
c. 1324: Pierre II. de l'Isle
1327–1330: Ives II. Le Prévôt de Bois Boëssel
1330–1338: Alain III. de Haïloury
1339–c. 1345: Richard du Poirier
c. 1354: Robert I. de Peynel
1355–1358: Hugues II. de Monstrelet
1358–1362: Alain IV.
28 November 1362 – 1371: Even Bégaignon
12 June 1372 – 1378: Jean II. Brun
1378–1383: Thibaud de Malestroit
1383–1384: Hugues III. de Keroulay
1385–3 May 1401: Pierre III. Morel

1400 to 1600

1401–1403: Ives III. Hirgouët
1404–1408: Bernard de Peyron
1408–1416: Christophe I. d'Hauterive
15. December 1417 – 1422: Matthieu du Kosker
29. April 1422 – 1430: Jean III. de Bruc
1430–27. August 1435: Pierre IV. Piédru (or Predou) (also Bishop of Saint-Malo)
1435–1441: Raoul II. Rolland
4. May 1442 – 1453: Jean IV. de Plouec
16. March 1454–23. September 1464: Jean V. de Coetquis
8. January 1466 – 1479: Christophe II. du Châtel
1480–1483: Cardinal Raphaël de Saint-Georges
1483–1502: Robert II. Guibé
1502–7. March 1505: Jean VI. de Talhouët
22 November 1505–16. November 1537: Antoine du Grignaux
14 June 1538 – 1540 or 1541: Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme
1541–1544: Cardinal Hippolyte d'Este
1544–1545: Jean VII. de Rieux
8 June 1545 – 1547: François I. de Manaz
1548–27. October 1566: Jean VIII. Juvénal des Ursins
1566–1572: Claude de Kernovenoy
1572–1583: Jean-Baptiste Le Gras
1583–1593: François II. de La Tour
1593–29. October 1602: Guillace III. du Halgoët

1600 to 1800

1604–29. July 1616: Georges-Louet-Adrien d'Amboise
1616–1620: Pierre V. Cornullier
1620–14. September 1635: Gui Champion
1636–19. August 1645: Noël des Landes'
1646–1679: Balthasar Grangier de Liverdis
1679–1686: François-Ignace de Baglion
1686–15. May 1694: Eustache Le Sénéchal de Carcado (or Kercado)
1694–1731: Olivier Jégou de Kervilio
1731–1745: François-Hyacinthe de La Fruglaye de Kervers
1746–30. August 1761: Charles-Gui Le Borgne de Kermorvan
1761–1766: Joseph-Dominique de Chaylus
26. April 1767 – 1773: Jean-Marc de Royère
1773–1775: Jean-Augustin de Frétat de Sarra
6 August 1775 – 1780: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Lubersac
1780–1790 (1801): Augustin-René-Louis Le Mintier

References

^ Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1887). Histoire de Bretagne: Les trois vies anciennes de Saint Tudual; texte latin et commentaire historique (in French). Paris: H. Champion. pp. 57–61. Kershaw, pp. 220, 246–247.
^ Second Life: La Borderie. p. 14.
^ He came with 72 disciples (the same number of disciples as Jesus had), according to the First Life and the Third Life. He went to the court of King Childebert with twelve disciples (the same number of apostles as Jesus had): La Borderie, p. 13, 25.
^ La Borderie, p. 13: Tunc rex dedit illi episcopatum et praesulatum super suas parrochias et sanctis qui cum eo venerunt, et ibi eum ordinare fecit in episcopali gradu. ('Then the king gave him the diocese and the episcopal control over his parishes and the saints who had come with him, and there ordered him to be ordained a bishop.') And on that day he sang a Mass in the presence of the King....
^ Duchesne, II (1910), pp. 390–392.
^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint-Brieuc

Bibliography

Reference works

Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 641–642. (Use with caution; obsolete)
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 494.
Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin) p. 254.
Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help) p. 317.
Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592–1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 6 July 2016. pp. 342.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667–1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016. p. 387.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730–1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016. pp. 413–414.

Studies

Chadwick, Nora Kershaw (1969). Early Brittany. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 9780900768262.
Duchesne, Louis (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French)
Hauréau, Barthélemy (1856). Gallia Christiana: In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa... De provincia Turonensi (in Latin). Vol. Tomus Quartus decimus (XIV). Paris: Typographia Regia. pp. 1119–1142, Instrumenta, pp. 271–274.
Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. pp. 454–458.
Poquet du Haut-Jussé, B.A. (1947). "Les évêques de Bretagne dans la renaissance religeuse du XVIIe siècle". Annales de Bretagne (in French). 54: 30–59. doi:10.3406/abpo.1947.1847. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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[1] Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1887). Histoire de Bretagne: Les trois vies anciennes de Saint Tudual; texte latin et commentaire historique (in French). Paris: H. Champion. pp. 57–61. Kershaw, pp. 220, 246–247.

[2] Second Life: La Borderie. p. 14.

[3] He came with 72 disciples (the same number of disciples as Jesus had), according to the First Life and the Third Life. He went to the court of King Childebert with twelve disciples (the same number of apostles as Jesus had): La Borderie, p. 13, 25.

[4] La Borderie, p. 13: Tunc rex dedit illi episcopatum et praesulatum super suas parrochias et sanctis qui cum eo venerunt, et ibi eum ordinare fecit in episcopali gradu. ('Then the king gave him the diocese and the episcopal control over his parishes and the saints who had come with him, and there ordered him to be ordained a bishop.') And on that day he sang a Mass in the presence of the King....

[5] Duchesne, II (1910), pp. 390–392.

[6] CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint-Brieuc

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