The former French Catholic diocese of Noyon lay in the north-east of France, around Noyon

Noyon

Noyon is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.It lies on the Oise Canal, 100 km north of Paris.-History:...

. It was formed when Saint Medardus moved the seat of the bishopric at Vermandois

Vermandois

Vermandois was a French county, that appears in the Merovingian period. In the tenth century, it was organised around two castellan domains: St Quentin and Péronne . Pepin I of Vermandois, the earliest of its hereditary counts, was descended in direct male line from the emperor Charlemagne...

 to Noyon, in the sixth century. For four centuries it was united with the bishopric of Tournai. Then in the twelfth century it was again independent, and the bishop of Noyon became a duc et pair of France.

The diocese of Noyon was brought to an end by the French Revolution

French Revolution

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. Its territory passed to the diocese of Beauvais.

Bishops

• Faustin
• Gondulph
• Evroul
• Bertimond
• c. 531–545 : Medardus
  Medardus
  Saint Medardus was the Bishop of Vermandois who removed the seat of the diocese to Noyon....
  
  
• Unified with Tournai
• 1146–1148 : Simon of Vermandois
  Simon of Vermandois
  Simon of Vermandois was a French nobleman and bishop.He was a son of Hugh I of Vermandois. Elected bishop of Noyon in 1123, he was excommunicated in 1142 by Pope Innocent II, for divorcing his brother Raoul I, Count of Vermandois from Eléonore of Blois...
  
  
• 1148–1167 : Baldwin II of Boulogne
• 1167–1174 or 1175 : Baldwin III de Beuseberg
• 1175–1188 : Renaud
  Renaud
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• 1188–1221 : Stephan of Nemours
• 1222–1228 : Gérard de Bazoches
• 1228–1240 : Nicolas de Roye
• 1240–1249 : Pierre I Charlot
• 1250–1272 : Vermond de La Boissière
• 1272–1297 : Guy II des Prés (Prez)
• 1297–1301 : Simon II. de Clermont-Nesle
• 1301–1303 : Peire de Ferrières (also bishop of Arles)
• 1304–1315 : André Le Moine de Crécy
• 1315–1317 : Florent de La Boissière
• 1317–1331 : Foucaud de Rochechouart (also bishop of Bourges)
• 1331–1338 : Guillaume Bertrand (also bishop of Bayeux)
• 1338–1339 : Étienne Aubert
• 1339–1342 : Pierre D'André (also bishop of Clermont)
• 1342–1347 : Bernard Brion (or Le Brun) (also bishop of Auxerre)
• 1347–1349 :Guy de Comborn
• 1349–1350 : Firmin Coquerel
• 1350–1351 : Philippe D'Arbois (also bishop of Tournai)
• 1351–1352 : Jean de Meulan (also bishop of Paris)
• 1352–1388 : Gilles de Lorris
• 1388–1409 : Philippe de Moulins (also bishop of Évreux)
• 1409–1415 : Pierre Fresnel (also bishop of Meaux and Lisieux)
• 1415–1424 : Raoul de Coucy
• 1425–1473 : Jean de Mailly
  Jean de Mailly
  Jean Pierier of Mailly, called Jean de Mailly, was a Dominican chronicler working in Metz in the mid-13th century. In his Latin chronicle of the Diocese of Metz, Chronica universalis Mettensis, the fable of Pope Joan first appears in written form....
  
  
• 1473–1501 : Guillaume Marafin
• 1501–1525 : Charles de Hangest
• 1525–1577 : Jean de Hangest
• 1577–1588 : Claude D'Angennes de Rambouillet
• 1588–1590 or 1593 : Gabriel Le Genevois de Bleigny (Blaigny)
• 1590–1594 : Jean Meusnier (Munier)
• 1594–1596 : François-Annibal D'Estrées
  François Annibal d'Estrées
  François-Annibal d'Estrées, duc d'Estrées was a French diplomat, military and Marshal of France.-Life:François-Annibal was the son of Antoine d'Estrées and brother of Gabrielle d'Estrées, the lover of Henry IV of France...
  
  
• 1596–1625 : Charles de Balsac (Balzac)
• 1625 : Gilles de Lourmé
• 1626–1660 : Henri de Baradat
• 1661–1701 : François de Clermont-Tonnerre
  François de Clermont-Tonnerre
  François de Clermont-Tonnerre, comte de Noyon was a French bishop of Noyon. He was a Pair de France, counsilor of state and became president of the assembly of the clergy in 1685...
  
  
• 1701–1707 : Claude-Maur D'Aubigné (also archbishop of Rouen
  Archbishop of Rouen
  The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the ecclesiastical province of the archdiocese comprises the majority of Normandy....
  
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• 1707–1731 : Charles-François-de Chateauneuf de Rochebonne
• 1731–1733 : Claude de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
• 1734–1766 : Jean-François de La Cropte de Bourzac
• 1766–1777 : Charles de Broglie
• 1778–1808 : Louis-André de Grimaldi