CHAPTER VII.
LIST OF THE BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS OF PARIS.
NOTRE DAME IN THE XIII CENTURY, SHOWING THE BISHOP’S PALACE
(L’ÉVÊCHÉ) ON THE LEFT.
(From “Paris à travers les Ages.”)
(I have adopted the spelling and dates generally given by
French Catholic writers in compiling this list).
St. Denis, who is counted as the first bishop by Roman
Catholic writers, is said to have been succeeded by the
following, of whom little or nothing is known: Mallo or
Mallon; Massus; Marcus; Adventus; Ventorien; Paul;
Prudence; St. Marcel (died about 436); Vivien; Felix;
Flavien; Ursicien; Apedemius; Heraclitus (? 490–525);
Probat; Amelius;
- Saffarac (545–552).
- Eusèbe I. (552–555).
- St. Germain (555–576).
- Raguemond (576–591).
- Eusèbe II. (592–594).
- Faramode (?); Simplicius (?); Saint Céran (606–621);
Leudebert (?); Aubert.
- St. Landry (650–656).
- Chrodobert (656–663).
- Sigobrand (663–664).
- Importun (?).
- St. Agilbert (666–680).
- Sigefroid (?); Tournsaede (?); Adolphe (?); Bernechaire, (?).
- St. Hugues (722–730).
- Marséide.
- Fédole (?); Raguecapt (?); Madalbert (?); Desdefroid (?);
Escheurade (?).
- Ermenfroi (?)
- Inchalde (809–831).
- Ercheurade (831–857).
- Enée (857–883).
- Ingelvin (?).
- Gozlin (883–886).
- Anschéric (886–911).
- Théodulphe or Gendulphe (911–922). This bishop is
believed to have been succeeded by Falrade; Adelhelme;
Gauthier I.; Albéric; Constante; Garin; Rainaud I.; Elisiard,
and Giselbert.
- Renault II., de Vendome (992–1019).
- Azelin or Albert (?).
- Francon (1020–1030).
- Imbert Hesselin (1030–1060).
- Godefroi de Boulogne (1061–1093).
- Guillaume I. de Montfort (1095–1102).
- Foulques I. (1102–1104).
- Galon (1105–1116).
- Giselbert or Gilbert (1116–1124).
- Etienne I. de Senlis (1124–1142).
- Thiébault (1143–1157).
- Pierre Lombard (1158–1159).
- Maurice de Sully (1160–1196).
- Eudes de Sully (1197–1208).
- Pierre II. de Nemours (1208–1219).
- Guillaume de Seiguelay (1220–1223).
- Barthélémy (1223–1227).
- (The see is believed to have been vacant for a year)
- Guillaume d’Auvergne (also called Guillaume de Paris)
(1228–1249).
- Gauthier II. de Chateau-Thierry (1249–1250).
- Renault III. de Corbeil (1250–1268).
- Etienne II. (1268–1279).
- Ranulfe ou Raoul d’Homblières (1279–1288).
- Simon Matiffas de Bucy (1290–1304).
- Guillaume IV. de Baufet (1304–1319).
- Etienne de Bourret (1320–1325).
- Hugues II. (1326–1332).
- Guillaume V. de Chanac (1332–1342).
- Foulques II. (1342–1349).
- Audoin Aubert (?).
- Pierre III. de la Forêt (1350–1352).
- Jean I. de Meulan (1352–1363).
- Etienne IV. de Paris (1363–1368).
- Aimeric de Maignac (1368–1384).
- Pierre IV. d’Orgement (1384–1409).
- Gérard de Montaigu (1409–1420).
- Jean II. de Courte-Cuisse (1421–1422).
- Jean III. de la Roche-Taillé (1422–1423).
- Jean IV. de Nant (1423–1427).
- Jacques de Chastelier (1427–1439).
- Denis II. du Moulin (1439–1447).
- Guillaume VI. Chartier (1447–1472).
- Louis de Beaumont (1473–1492).
- Gerard Gobaille (1494).
- Jean V., Simon de Champigny (1494–1502).
- Etienne V., Poncher (1503–1519).
- François de Poncher (1519–1532).
- Jean VI. de Bellay (1532–1551).
- Eustache de Bellay (1551–1564).
- Guillaume Viole (1564–1568).
- Cardinal Pierre V. de Gondi (1568–1598).
- Cardinal Henri de Gondi de Retz (1598–1622).
ARCHBISHOPS.
Paris was raised to the rank of an archbishopric on the
demand of Louis XIII. to Pope Gregory XV. (The Bull is
dated Oct. 20th, 1622.)
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1. Jean-François de Gondi (1622–1654). First Archbishop
of Paris. Buried in Notre Dame.
- 2. Jean-François-Paul de Gondi (Cardinal de Retz). Buried
in Saint-Denis (1654–1679).
- 3. Pierre VI. de Marca (d. 1662). Buried in Notre Dame.
- 4. Hardouin de Péréfix de Beaumont (d. 1671). Buried
in Notre Dame.
- 5. François de Harlay de Champvallon (d. 1695). Buried
in Notre Dame.
- 6. Louis-Antoine de Noailles. Cardinal (d. 1729). Buried
in Notre Dame.
- 7. Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc (d.
1746). Buried in Notre Dame.
- 8. Jacques-Bonnet-Gigault de Bellefonds (d. 1746). Buried
in Notre Dame.
- 9. Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (d. 1781). Buried
in Notre Dame.
- 10. Antoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné de Neuchelle
(d. 1811). Buried in Notre Dame.
- 11. Jean-Baptiste de Belloy. Cardinal. Died, aged ninety-eight
years and eight months, in 1808, and buried in Notre
Dame.
- 12. Alexandre-Angélique de Tallyrand-Perigord. Born
1736. Archbishop of Reims 1776. Cardinal 1817; Died
1821.
- 13. Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen. Born 1778. Bishop of
Samosate 1817; Archbishop of Paris 1821. Died 1839.
- 14. Denis III., Auguste Affre. Born 1793. Archbishop of
Paris 1840. Struck by a ball at the barricades in the
Faubourg Saint-Antoine on June 25th, 1848, and died two
days later.
- 15. Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour. Born 1792. Bishop
of Digue 1839; Archbishop of Paris 1848. Was assassinated
on Jan. 3rd, 1857, in the church of Saint-Etienne du Mont by
a priest. He had as auxiliary bishop Léon-François Sibour.
- 16. François III., Nicolas-Madeleine Morlot. Born 1795.
Bishop of Orléans 1839; Archbishop of Tours 1842; Cardinal
1853; Archbishop of Paris 1857. Died 1862.
- 17. Georges Darboy. Born 1813. Bishop of Nancy 1850;
Archbishop of Paris 1863. Arrested as a hostage by the
Commune on April 4th, 1871, and shot on May 27th.
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18. Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert. Born 1802. Archbishop
of Tours 1857; Archbishop of Paris 1871; Cardinal 1873.
Died 1886.
- 19. François-Marie-Benjamin Richard. Born 1819. Bishop
of Belley 1871; Coadjutor of Archbishop Guibert 1875;
Archbishop of Paris 1886. Cardinal 1889.