Ancient Diocese of Agde
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The former French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Roman Catholic diocese of Agde existed from about the 6th century to the French Revolution
French Revolution
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 - the last bishop, Charles François de Saint Simon Sandricourt, was guillotined in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 on July 26, 1794. Its see was Agde Cathedral; Agde
Agde
Agde is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. It is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi.-Location:Agde is located on the river Hérault, 4 km from the Mediterranean Sea, and 750 km from Paris...

 is in the south of France, in what is now the department of Hérault
Hérault
Hérault is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.-History:Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

. Its territory is now part of the diocese of Montpellier

To 1000

  • Saint Venustus (Venuste) ca. 405
  • Beticus ca. 450?
  • Sophronius (Sophrone) 506
  • Leo 541
  • Pronimius (Fronime) ca. 569-ca. 585
  • Tigride 589
  • George 653
  • Wilesinde 673
  • Primus (Prime) 683
  • Justus (Just) 788, 791
  • Dagobert I. (Dagbert, Agbert) 848-872
  • Boson 885-897
  • Gerard I. 899-922
  • Stephan I. 922
  • Dagobert II. 937-948
  • Bernhard I. 949
  • Salomon I. 954-957
  • Bernhard II. 958
  • Ameil 971
  • Salomon II. 972-976
  • Armand (Arnaud) 982
  • Stephan II. 990-1034

1000 to 1300

  • Wilhelm I 1043
  • Gontier 1050-1064
  • Bérenger 1068-1098
  • Bernard Déodat 1098-1122
  • Adelbert 1123-1129
  • Raimond de Montredon 1130-1142 (also bishop of Arles)
  • Ermengaud 1142-1149
  • Bérenger II 1149-1152
  • Pons 1152-1153
  • Adhémar 1153-1162
  • Wilhelm II. 1165-1173
  • Pierre Raimond 1173-1191 or 1192
  • Raimond de Montpellier 1192-1213
  • Pierre Poulverel (Pulverel) 1214
  • Thédise 1215-1233
  • Bertrand de Saint-Just 1233-1241
  • Chrétien 1242
  • Pierre Raimond de Fabre (Fabri) 1243-1270 or 1271
  • Pierre Bérenger de Montbrun 1271-1296
  • Raimond du Puy 1296-1327 or 1331

1300 to 1500

  • Bernard Géraud (de Girard) 1332-1337
  • Guillaume Hunaud de Lanta 1337-1341 or 1342
  • Pierre de Bérail de Cessac 1342-1353 or 1354
  • Arnaud Aubert
    Arnaud Aubert
    Arnaud Aubert was nephew of Pope Innocent VI, who appointed him Bishop of Agde , then Bishop of Carcassonne and finally Archbishop of Auch . He was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from March 1361 and exercised that post during sede vacante in 1362 and 1370. Vicar and administrator of the see...

     1354 (also bishop of Carcassonne)
  • Sicard D'Ambres de Lautrec 1354-1371 (also bishop of Béziers)
  • Hugues de Montruc 1371-1408
  • Guy de Malesec 1409-1411 (administrator)
  • Philippe de Levis de Florensac 1411-1425 (also archbishop of Auch)
  • Bérenger Guilhot 1425-1426 (also archbishop of Auch)
  • Jean Teste 1426-1435 or 1436
  • Renaud de Chartres 1436-1439 (also archbishop of Reims
    Archbishop of Reims
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by St. Sixtus, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750...

    )
  • Guillaume Charrier 1439-1440
  • Jean de Montmorin 1440-1448
  • Étienne de Roupt de Cambrai 1448-1460 or 1462
  • Charles de Beaumont 1462-1470 or 1476
  • Jacques Minutoli 1476-1490
  • Nicolas Fieschi 1490-1494 (also bishop of Fréjus)
  • Jean de Vesc 1494-1525

From 1500

  • Jean-Antoine de Vesc 1525-1530 (also bishop of Valence)
  • François Guillaume de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève 1530-1540
  • Claude de La Guiche 1541 or 1540-1546 (also bishop of Mirepoix)
  • Gilles Bohier 1546 or 1547–1561
  • Aimery de Saint-Sévérin 1561-1578
  • Pierre de Conques
  • Bernard du Puy 1578 or ca. 1583-1601 or 1611
  • Louis de Valois 1612-1622
  • Balthazar de Budos de Portes 1622-1629
  • Fulcran de Barrès 1629-1643
  • Jean Dolce 13 June 1643-26 June 1643
  • François Fouquet 1643-1656 (also archbishop of Narbonne)
  • Louis Fouquet 1656 or 1657–1702
  • Philibert-Charles de Pas de Feuquières 1702-1726
  • Claude Louis de La Châtre 1726-1740
  • Joseph-François de Cadente de Charleval 1740-1758 or 1759
  • Ch.-Fr.-Siméon de Vermandois de Saint-Simon de Rouvroy de Sandricourt 1759-1794
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