Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Diocese comprising the entire department of Aude, and suffragan to Toulouse. On the occasion of the Concordat of the former Diocese of Carcassonne, nearly all the old Archdiocese of Narbonne, almost the entire Diocese of Saint-Papoul, a part of the ancient Dioceses of Alet and Mirepoix, and the former Diocese of Perpignan were united to make the one Diocese of Carcassone; in the Diocese of Perpignan was re-established.
The first of its bishops known to history was Sergius From to the see was occupied by Bishop de Bonnechose , later Cardinal , and from to , by the mystical writer, Bishop de la Bouillerie.
Paulus to the middle of the third century. Among other incumbents of the See of Narbonne were St. Rusticus ; St. In medieval times the Archbishopric of Narbonne was of great importance.
Important councils were held at Narbonne in and in the thirteenth century, and its bishops presided legally over the meetings of the Estates of Languedoc. A Benedictine abbey founded in by Pepin the Short, and named after the holy priest Papoul, martyred near Toulouse in the third century, was created an episcopal see by John XXII in Nicolas Pavillon , a Jansenist , known for his resistance to the commands of the Holy See , was Bishop of Alet from to The history of this region is intimately connected with that of the Albigenses.
The monastery of Prouille, where St. Dominic established a religious institute for converted Albigensian women in , is still a place of pilgrimage consecrated to the Blessed Virgin.
