The former Catholic diocese of Narbonne existed from early Christian times until the French Revolution

French Revolution

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. It was an archdiocese, with its see at Narbonne

Narbonne

Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...

, from the year 445, and its influence ran over much of south-western France and into Catalonia

Catalonia

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. Diminished by the creation of other dioceses in 1317, its territory was merged under the Concordat of 1801

Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status....

 into the diocese of Carcassonne. The title Archbishop of Narbonne, however, belongs to the Archbishop of Toulouse.
An attempt after the Restoration to re-establish the see was defeated in the French parliament, with the result that a new metropolitan see was created for the Languedoc region at Montpellier in 2002.

To 1000

• Saint Paul I. (c. 251)
• Saint Etienne (third century)
• Gavidius (359)
• Hilaire (417-422)
• Rusticus (427, 461, c.441-445)
• Hermes (462) (first archbishop 445)
• Caprarpus (506)
• Aquilin (560)
• Athaloc
  Athaloc
  Athaloc was the Visigothic Arian Archbishop of Narbonne at the time of the Third Council of Toledo in 589. He was the metropolitan of his province in parallel with the Catholic hierarchy....
  
   (ca. 589)
• Migetius (Migecio) (ca. 589-597)
• Serge (c. 610)
• Selva (Sclua) (ca. 633-638)
• Argebaud (c. 672)
• Sunifred (ca. 683-688)
• Arriberi (ca. 768)
• Daniel (ca. 769-ca. 798)
• Nebridius
  Nebridius
  Saint Nebridius was bishop of Egara and then bishop of Barcelona from 540 to around 547 AD. His feast day falls on February 9. A native of Girona, Nebridius, according to tradition, had three brothers were also saints. They were Saint Justus, bishop of Urgell; Saint Elpidius; and Saint...
  
   (Nefridius) (ca. 790-822 or ca. 799-ca. 825)
• Bartholomeus (ca. 827-840 oder ca. 822-844)
• Berarius (ca. 842-ca. 850)
• Fredoldus (ca. 855-872)
• Sigebaud (873-885)
• Theodard
  Theodard
  Saint Theodard was an archbishop of Narbonne. He may have been born to the nobility and served as a subdeacon at a church council at Toulouse....
  
   (Teodard) (885-893)
• Arnust (893-912)
• Gerard (911)
• Agio (914-924)
• Aimery (926-977)
• Ermengaud (Ermengol) (977-1017/1019)

1000-1300

• Guifred de Cerdagne (6 October 1019-1079)
• Pierre Berengar (1079-1085)
• Dalmas (Dalmace) (c. 1086-1097)
• Bertrand de Montredon (1097-1106)
• Richard de Millau (Milhau) (1106-1121)
• Arnaud de Lévezou
  Arnaud de Lévezou
  Arnaud de Lévézou , son of Aicfred of Lévézou and of Arsinde de Millau, was the scion of a powerful family who had fortified Lévézou in the preceding century....
  
   (1121-1149) (also bishop of Béziers)
• Pierre d'Anduze (1150-1156)
• Berengar (1156-1162)
• Pons D'Arce (1162-1181)
• Bernard Gaucelin (1182-1191) (also bishop of Béziers)
• Berengar of Barcelona (1191-1212); son of Raimund Berengar IV
• Arnaldus Amalric (or Arnaud Amaury) (1212-1225)
• Pierre (1226-1245)
• Guillaume de Broue (1245-1257)
• Jacques (1257-1259)
• Guido Fulcodi (1259-1261)
• Maurin (1262-1272)
• Pierre de Montbrun (1272-1286)
• Gilles Aycelin de Montaigut (1287-1311)

From 1300

• Bernard de Fargis (1311-1341)
• Gausbert du Val (1341-1346) (Cardinal)
• Pierre de La Jugie (1347-1375)
• Jean Roger (1375-1391)
• François de Conziè (1391-1432)
• Francesco Condulmer
  Francesco Condulmer
  Francesco Condulmer was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.He was made cardinal on 19 September 1431 by his uncle, Pope Eugenius IV, and accumulated many offices and dignities. He was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church , administrator of Narbonne and Amiens...
  
   (1433-1436) (Cardinal)
• Jean D'Harcourt (1436-1451) (also Patriarch of Alexandria
  Patriarch of Alexandria
  The Patriarch of Alexandria is the Archbishop of Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation of Pope , and did so earlier than that of the Bishop of Rome...
  
  )
• Louis D'Harcourt (1451-1460)
• Antoine du Bec-Crespin (1460-1472)
• Renaud de Bourbon (1473-1482)
• Georges d'Amboise
  Georges d'Amboise
  Georges d'Amboise was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father, Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was chamberlain to Charles VII and...
  
   (1482-1484)
• François Ilallé (1484-1491)
• Georges d'Amboise, second time, (1492-1494)
• Pierre D'Abzac (1494-1502)
• François-Guillaume de Castelnau (1502-1507)
• Guillaume Briçonnet
  Guillaume Briçonnet (Cardinal)
  Guillaume Briçonnet was a French Cardinal.-Life:He was a younger son of Jean Briçonnet, Lord of Varennes, in Touraine, Secretary to the king and collector-general of Customs...
  
   (1507-1514)
• Giulio de Medici
  Pope Clement VII
  Clement VII , born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, was a cardinal from 1513 to 1523 and was Pope from 1523 to 1534.-Early life:...
  
   (1515-1523)
• John, Cardinal of Lorraine
  John, Cardinal of Lorraine
  Jean de Lorraine was a French cardinal, who was archbishop of Reims, Lyon and Narbonne, bishop of Metz, Toul, Verdun, Thérouanne, Luçon, Albi, Valence, Nantes and Agen...
  
   (1524-1550)
• Ippolito II d'Este
  Ippolito II d'Este
  Ippolito d'Este was an Italian cardinal and statesman. He was a member of the House of Este, and nephew of the other Ippolito d'Este, also a cardinal.-Biography:...
  
  , Cardinal of Ferrara (1550-1551)
• Francesco Pisani
  Francesco Pisani
  Francesco Pisani was an Italian Cardinal, from 1517.He was bishop of Padua in 1524, bishop of Narbonne in 1551, bishop of Albano in 1555, bishop of Frascati in 1557, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1562,and bishop of Ostia in 1564....
  
   (1551-1563) (Cardinal)
• Ippolito II. d'Este (1563-1572)
• Simon Vigor
  Simon Vigor
  Simon Vigor was a French Catholic bishop and controversialist.-Life:...
  
   (1572-1575)
• François de Joyeuse
  François de Joyeuse
  François de Joyeuse was a French churchman and politician.Born at Carcassonne, François de Joyeuse was the second son of Guillaume de Joyeuse and Marie Eléanor de Batarnay. As the younger son of a seigneur in an intensely religious family of bishops and soldiers, he was destined for a career in...
  
   (1581-1588)
• Louis de Vervins (1600-1628)
• Claude de Rebé (1628-1659)
• François Fouquet (1659-1673)
• Pierre de Bonzi (1673-1703) (also archbishop of Toulouse)
• Charles Legoux de La Berchère (1711-1715)
• René-François de Beauvau du Rivau (1726-1738)
• Jean-Louis de Berton de Crillon (1739-1751)
• Charles-Antoine de La Roche-Aimon (1752-1762)
• Arthur Richard de Dillon (1763-1790) (1806)
• N. Besancelle (1790?-1793?)