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    diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France and at Forcalquier, in the modern department of...
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    departments of the Hautes and Basses Alpes, in addition to the former diocese of Digne, the Archdiocese of Embrun, the dioceses of Gap, Sisteron and Senez...
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    Maritimes. After the Concordat of 1801, the territory of the diocese passed to the diocese of Nice. The first known Bishop of Vence is Severus, bishop in...
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    Catholic diocese of Riez existed at least from fifth century Gaul to the French Revolution. Its see was at Riez, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence...
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    between the diocese of Digne and the diocese of Avignon.[citation needed] Its seat was at Apt Cathedral, in Vaucluse. The Chapter of the Cathedral of Apt was...
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    to the diocese of Sisteron on 2 May 1382 by Clement VII. In 1404 he was transferred to Arles. Eubel, I, pp. 253, 267 with note 9, 454. Thomas of S. Marco...
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    When the Diocese of Gap was re-established in 1822 it comprised, besides the ancient Diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient Archdiocese of Embrun....
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  • archbishop of Reims (third century) The name of the first bishop of Nice (4th century) A ninth-century bishop of Sisteron (ninth century) A bishop of the Ancient...
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    novissima, pp. 751-754. Artaud had previously been bishop of Forlí (1372), of Grasse (1379), and of Sisteron (1382). He was transferred to Arles by Pope Benedict...
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    transferred to the diocese of Sisteron on 18 August 1514. He died in 1520. Eubel, II, p. 243; III, p. 301. Bonneval was later Bishop of Bazas (1528–1531)...
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    Mediterranean coast. The present diocese comprises the territory of the ancient Diocese of Fréjus as well as that of the ancient Diocese of Toulon. In 1957 it was...
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    territory in 1175, when the diocese of Alessandria was created. It lost a considerable amount of its ancient territory when the diocese of Mondovì was established...
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    The Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio (Latin: Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. It has existed since 1989. In northern...
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    diocese, and Canon and Precentor of Riez. He held many other benefices besides, nine of which are named by Albanés. He was named Bishop of Sisteron by...
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    1823 as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sens and took over a part of the former Diocese of Autun and a part of the ancient Diocese of Auxerre. The Gallia...
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    1559–1562 French political crisis (category French Wars of Religion)
    and La Baume-de-Sisteron. By July the possibility of his arrest was becoming increasingly inevitable. Having failed to surprise Sisteron, he was cornered...
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    evidence of the incorporation of three ancient dioceses into the diocese of Avellino. Avellino was still a suffragan of Benevento. The area of Benevento...
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    components. Local meat comes from neighbouring valleys, such as the sheep of Sisteron. Local fish, such as mullets, bream, sea urchins, anchovies and poutine/gianchetti...
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    Gap, Hautes-Alpes (category Communes of Hautes-Alpes)
    Alpem, linked Turin to Sisteron and consisted of six stations. Then known as Vapincum, the town of Gap was founded from one of these stations. In 22 AD...
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    way from the Col de Montgenèvre, the easiest crossing point of the Alps, through Sisteron, Apt and Cavaillon to Tarascon on the Rhône, and then along...
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    ornate tomb like those of his predecessors. On March 10, Clement XI had a meeting at about 11:00am with the Bishop of Sisteron Pierre François Lafitau...
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  • century, born at Susa (Segusio), in the ancient Diocese of Turin. He died at Lyon. He undertook the study of Roman law and canon law at Bologna, where...
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    Digne-les-Bains (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    the Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron. The bishop is Monsignor Jean-Philippe Nault [fr]. He was appointed in 2014 and is the youngest Bishop of France...
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    Fréjus, Sisteron and Grenoble. The rulers of Provence give the abbey land, castles, and even entire towns, such as Pertuis. Construction of the Abbey...
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    Castellane (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Château-Arnoux Via Ventiana, from Cimiez to Sisteron by way of Vence; a carved milestone from the beginning of the third century was found on this road in...
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    Le Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Le Vernet depends on the Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron. In Bas-Vernet, the parish church of Sainte-Marthe dates from the 19th century. At Haut-Vernet...
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    Aureille (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    inhabitants of Eyguières. These families lived at Eyguières but were from the Alps (Gap, Sisteron, Barcelonnette, the Dauphiné, or, closer, the region of Apt)...
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    Aubignosc (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    region of south-eastern France. Aubignosc is located in the west of the Durance valley some 8 km south by south-east of Sisteron, 21 km west of Digne-les-Bains...
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    Prads-Haute-Bléone (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    of the dioceses of Digne, Senez, and Embrun. The Abbey of Cistercian monks of Notre-Dame de Faillefeu (or meadows: the Abbot was called "the Abbot of...
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    Tartonne (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    At the end of the Roman Empire, the connection to that of Sanitensium, and its diocese, was proved with the disappearance of the bishopric of Thorame. The...
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