Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer
Roman Catholic diocese in France (1559 - 1801)
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The former French Catholic diocese of Saint-Omer existed from 1559[1] until the French Revolution, with its episcopal seat in Saint-Omer Cathedral in Saint-Omer, in the modern department of Pas-de-Calais The diocese was created as a reaction to the destruction of the see of Thérouanne by military action in the wars of the Emperor Charles V. It then became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cambrai in 1559.
By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Saint-Omer was united with the diocese of Arras and the diocese of Boulogne, to form an enlarged diocese of Arras.[2]
Bishops
- Guillaume de Poitiers 1561
- Gérard de Haméricourt 1563-1577
- Jean Six 1581-1586
- Jacques de Pamèle 1587
- Jean de Vernois, O.P., 1591-1599
- Jacques Blaseus, O.F.M. Rec., 1600-1618 (previously bishop of Namur)
- Paul Boudot 1618-1626 (then bishop of Arras)
- Pierre Paunet, O.F.M., 1628-1631
- Christophe de Morlet 1632-1633
- Christophe de France 1635-1656
- Ladislas Jonart 1662-1671 (then archbishop of Cambrai)
- Jacques-Théodore de Bryas 1672-1675 (then archbishop of Cambrai)
- Jean Charles de Longueval 1676
- Pierre Van Den Perre 1577
- Armand-Anne-Tristan de La Baume de Suze 1677
- Louis-Alphonse de Valbelle 1677-1708 (previously bishop of Alet)
- François de Valbelle de Tourves 1708-1727
- Joseph-Alphonse de Valbelle de Tourves 1727-1754
- Pierre-Joseph de Brunes de Monlouet 1754-1765 (previously bishop of Dol)
- Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de Conzié 1766-1769 (then bishop of Aire)
- Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié 1769-1775 (then archbishop of Tours)
- Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur 1775-1778 (then bishop of Carcassonne)
- Alexandre-Joseph-Alexis de Bruyère de Chalabre 1778-1790 (1796)
