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.)
- 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.
- 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.