Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres (Latin: Dioecesis Carnutensis; French: Diocèse de Chartres) is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite diocese in France.[1][2]

Diocese of Chartres Dioecesis Carnutensis Diocèse de Chartres
Chartres Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Tours
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Tours
Statistics
Area	5,939 km^2 (2,293 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2013) 298,000 427,800 (69.7%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Chartres
Patron saint	Assumption of Mary
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Philippe Christory
Metropolitan Archbishop	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin
Website
Website of the Diocese

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tours.[3]

Pilgrimages

Chartres has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since the 1980s, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté,[4] with offices in Versailles, has organized the annual 100-km pilgrimage on foot from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, mostly young families from all over France, participate every year.

Bishops

See also

• Catholic Church in France

References

1. Diocese of Chartres - Catholic Encyclopedia article
2. Official diocese website Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
3. Diocese of Chartres from catholic-hierarchy.org/
4. Notre-Dame de Chrétienté - English language site

Bibliography

Reference works

• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. (Use with caution; obsolete)
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Studies

• Du Tems, Hugues (1774). Le clergé de France, ou tableau historique et chronologique des archevêques, évêques, abbés, abbesses et chefs des chapitres principaux du royaume, depuis la fondation des églises jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Tome premier. Paris: Delalain.
• Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard.
• Fisquet, Honoré Jean P. (1864). La France pontificale ... Chartres (in French). Paris: E. Repos.
• Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères. pp. 346–350.