The Archdiocese of Reims was founded (as a diocese) around 250 by St. Sixtus. It was elevated to an archdiocese around 750, and the archbishop received the title "primate of Belgium" in 1089. In 1023, archbishop Ebles acquired the County of Reims, which became a duchy and a peerage between 1060 and 1170.

The archdiocese comprises the arrondissement of Reims and the région of Champagne-Ardenne. The dioceses within Reims are Amiens, Beauvais-Noyon-Senlis, Châlons, Langres, Soissons-Laon-Saint-Quentin, and Troyes. Its headquarters are at Notre-Dame de Reims, where the Kings of France were traditionally crowned.

See also: Catholic Church in France

Bishops of Reims

• St. Sixtus (c. 260)
• Amantius?
• St. Sinice (c. 280)
• St. Amanse (c. 290)
• Betause (before 300–c. 314)
• Aper (328–350)
• St. Maternien (350–359)
• Domitianus
• St. Donatian (361–390)
• St. Vincent (390–394)
• St. Severus (394–400)
• St. Nicaise (400–407; founded the first cathedral of Reims, killed by the Vandals)
• Barucius
• Barnabas
• Bennage (?–459)
• St. Remigius (459–533)
• Romanus
• Flavius (c. 535)
• Mappinus (c. 549)
• Egidius (573–590)
• Romulph (590–613)
• Sonnatius (613–c. 627)
• Leudigisil
• Angelbert (c. 630)
• Lando
• St. Nivard (before 657–673)
• St. Rieul (673–c. 689)
• St. Rigobert (c.689–717)
• Milo (717–744)
• Abel (744–748)

Archbishops of Reims

• Tilpin (748-795; the Turpin of the Chanson de Roland)
• vacant (795-812)
• Wulfaire (812-816)
• Ebbo (816-835)
• vacant (835-840)
• Ebbo (840-841), again
• vacant (841-845)
• Hincmar (845-882)
• Fulk the Venerable (882-900)
• Herive (900-922)
• Seulf (922-925)
• Hugh of Vermandois (925-931), son of Herbert II of Vermandois
• Artaud (931-940)
• Hugh of Vermandois (940-946)
• Artaud (946-961)
• Odelric (962-969)
• Adalberon (969-988)
• Arnoul (988-991; son of Lothair of France)
• Gerbert of Aurillac (991-999); later Pope Sylvester II
• Arnoul (999-1021), again
• Ebles I of Roucy (1021-1033; count of Roucy, count of Reims, 1023-1033)
• Guy of Roucy (1033-1055)
• Gervaise of Bellême (1055-1067)
• Manasses I (1069-1080)
• Renaud of Le Bellay (1083-1096)
• Manasses II (1096-1106)
• Gervaise of Rethel (1106; nominated by Philip I of France over Raoul the Green, but condemned by the Council of Troyes in 1106)
• Raoul the Green (1106-1124)
• Raymond of Martigné (1125-1138)
• Samson de Mauvoisin (1140-1161)
• Henry (1162-1175; son of Louis VI of France)
• William Whitehands (Guillaume de Blois) (1176-1202; son of Theobald II of Champagne)
• Guy Pare (1204-1206)
• Alberic of Humbert (1207-1218)
• William of Joinville (1219-1226)
• Henry of Dreux (1227-1240)
• Yves of Saint-Martin (1244-1249)
• Thomas of Beaumes (1249-1262)
• John of Courtenay-Champignelles (1266-1270)
• Peter Barbet (1273-1298)
• Robert of Courtenay-Champignelles (1299-1323)
• William of Trie (1324-1334)
• John of Vienne (1335-1351)
• Hugh of Arcy (1351-1352)
• Humbert (1352-1355; Dauphin de Viennois)
• John of Craon (1355-1373)
• Louis Thesart (1374-1375)
• Richard Picque (1374-1389)
• Ferry Cassinel (1389-1390)
• Guy of Roye (1391-1409)
• Simon of Cramaud (1409-1429)
• Peter Trousseau (1413-1413)
• Renaud of Chartres (1413-1443)
• James of Jouvenel des Ursins (1445-1457)
• John of Jouvenel des Ursins (1449-1473)
• Peter of Montfort-Laval (1474-1493)
• Robert Briçonnet (1493-1497)
• William Briçonnet (1497-1514)
• Charles Dominique de Carreto (1507-1514)
• Robert de Lenoncourt (1509-1532)
• John of Lorraine (1533–1550; son of René II, Duke of Lorraine
• Charles of Guise (1538–1574; nephew of John of Lorraine, son of Claude, Duke of Guise)
• Louis I of Guise (1574–1588; nephew of Charles of Guise, son of Francis, Duke of Guise)
• Nicolas de Poilleve (1588–1594)
• Philippe du Bec (1594–1605)
• Louis II of Guise (1605–1621; nephew of Louis I, son of Henry I, Duke of Guise)
• Gabriel de Sainte-Marie (1623–1629)
• Henry of Guise (1629–1664; nephew of Louis II, son of Charles, Duke of Guise)
• Léonor d'Estampes de Valençay (1641-1651)
• Henri de Savoie-Nemours (1651-1659)
• Antoine Barberini (1659-1671)
• Charles Maurice Le Tellier (1671-1710)
• François de Mailly (1710-1721)
• Armand Jules de Rohan-Guémené (1722-1762)
• Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon (1763-1777)
• Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (1777-1816), (not recognized from 1790; Archbishop of Paris from 1817-1821)
• vacant
• Jean-Charles de Coucy (1801-1824)
• Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil (1824-1839)
• Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (1840-1866)
• Jean-Baptiste François Anne Thomas Landriot (1867-1874)
• Benoit-Marie Langénieux (1874-1905)
• Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon (1906-1930)
• Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1930-1940)
• Luigi Agostino Marmottin (1940-1960)
• Gabriel Auguste François Marty (1960-1968)
• Émile André Jean-Marie Maury (1968-1972)
• Jacques Eugène Louis Ménager (1973-1988)
• Jean Marie Julien Balland (1988-1995)
• Gérard Denis Auguste Defois (1995-1998)
• Thierry Romain Camille Jordan (1999-present)

Sources

• Le père Anselme, Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique des Pairs de France, volume 2
• Georges Boussinecq et Gustave Laurent, Histoire de Reims des Origines jusqu'à nos jours, 1933, ISBN 2-86516-001-7
• Histoire de Reims, sous la direction de Pierre Desportes, 1983, ISBN 2-7089-4722-2

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Diocese of Reims at catholic-hierarchy.org

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