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DIOCESE OF CHÂLONS-SUR-MARNE (CATALAUNENSIS)
The Diocese comprises the department of Marne, exclusive of the arrondissement ofReims. United in 1802 with the Diocese of Meaux and in 1821 with that ofReims, thediocese ofChâlons was re-established in 1822, and is suffragan toReims. Local legends maintain that the evangelization ofChâlons by St. Memmius, sent thither by St. Peter and assisted by his sister Poma, also by Sts. Donatian and Domitian, took place in the first century, but in the revised list of thediocesansaints in theBreviary these legends have been suppressed. Abbé Duchesne assigns the founding of theSee of Châlons to the fourth century, Amandinus, who attended the Council ofTours in 461, being its ninthbishop. St. Lumier (Leudomerus),Bishop ofChâlons about 580, was noted for hismiraculous power over animals. Thebishops of this see played an important part in early French history, and at thecoronation of the Capetian kings theBishop ofChâlons always carried the royal ring. Thecathedral wasconsecrated in 1147 byEugene III, assisted bySt. Bernard and eighteencardinals. Among its celebratedabbeys the diocese counted those of St. Memmius, founded in the fifth century by Alpinus; Toussaints, founded in the eleventh century; Montier-en-Der, founded in the seventh century by St. Bereharius, amonk from Luxeuil; Saint-Pierre au Mont, founded during the same period. Notre-Dame de l'Epine, nearChâlons, was a place ofpilgrimage as early as the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Prior to thelaw of 1901 there wereJesuits andLazarists in the Diocese of Châlons, which has manyschools in charge of the local congregation of Notre-Dame, founded in 1613 by the Venerable Mère Alix Leclerc. In 1900 there were in the diocese the following religious institutions: 16 infantschools, 3 boys'orphanages, 9 girls'orphanages, 7 dispensaries, 15hospitals and asylums, 11 houses for religious nurses, 1 house of retreat, and 1 insane asylum. At the close of 1905 (the end of the period under the Concordat) statistics showed that the diocese had a population of 231,411, with 25parishes (cures), 312 succursalparishes (mission churches), and 6 vicariates supported by the State.
APA citation.Goyau, G.(1908).Châlons-sur-Marne. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03566a.htm
MLA citation.Goyau, Georges."Châlons-sur-Marne."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 3.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1908.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03566a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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