Diocese of Béziers

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Béziers (Lat.: Biterrensis)was situated in southern France, in Languedoc, west of the Rhone River. The diocese was in existence by the beginning of the 5th century. It was a suffragan (subordinate) of the archdiocese of Narbonne. In 1790, during the French Revolution, the Catholic diocese of Béziers and several others were suppressed by the Constituent Assembly, and their territory assigned to a new Constitutionaal Diocese of Hérault, whose schismatic bishop was seated at Béziers. The Catholic diocese of Beziers was abolished by Pope Pius VII in 1801, and never revived. It is no longer an independent diocese, and is part of the Diocese of Montpellier.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.