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Mission De France

Mission de France is a diocese without French territory of the Catholic Church.

Summary

1 History
2 List of bishops of the Mission de France
3 Homonyms
4 See also
5 External Links
6 Notes and references

History

After an awareness by the Church in the 1930s , especially during the STO in Germany, the de-Christianization of the working class and rural France, was created on 24 July 1941 Mission of France. Then a seminar interdiocesan to train priests who wanted this new fact.

The project was supported by Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard , struck by the lack of faith of the men of his time, becoming archbishop of Paris. It is located in the continuity of the thought of St. Therese of Lisieux in 1940 and wrote: "I feel that part of the mission is to make holy." The seminar of the Mission de France, which he founded 24 July 1941, moved to Lisieux in October 1942.

Many priests of the Mission of France, eager to share the lives of workers of their time, are worker priests. In 1954 , the Church forbids them to continue their work because they have committed political and union alongside their fellow workers. The seminar of the Mission de France is threatened with closure.

On 15 August 1954 , Pope Pius XII gave to the Mission of France the status of a diocese without territory: this translates into an organization similar to that of a conventional diocese with a bishop (bishop) of the Mission de France, and a seat located Beine , in the Yonne. There are priests who remain in the community of the Mission de France, and are sent primarily in areas dechristianized or non-believers. From its inception in 1954 to the consolidation of the French ecclesiastical province in 2002 , the diocese (or Prelature ) is attached to the province of Sens , and since 2002 than in Dijon

List of bishops of the Mission de France

1954-1964: ^MonsignorAchilles Linart
1964-1968: ^BishopFrancis Marty
1964-1973: ^BishopHenry Guffey
1974: ^BishopAndre Bossuyt
1975-1982: ^BishopRoger Etchegaray
1982-1988: ^BishopAlbert Decourtray
1988-1995: ^BishopAndre Lacrampe
1996-2004: ^BishopGeorge Gilson
2004 -: ^MonsignorYves Paternoster

Homonyms

The church of the Mission de France, Marseilles , was named to the ^seventeenth century because it was the church of a seminar run by the Vincentians , known as the Grand Seminary or "seminar Mission de France "to distinguish it from another mission priests Provence (the Vincentians came from Paris). The street name is also adjacent streets of the Mission of France.