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Diocese comprising the Department of Haute-Savoie inFrance, with the exception of severalparishes in the cantons of Alby and Rumilly, which belong to the Diocese of Chambery, and in addition, the canton of Ugenes (Department of Savoie). It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Chambery. From 1535 to 1801 thebishops ofGeneva, exiled by theReformation fromGeneva, lived at Annecy.St. Francis de Sales wasBishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622. From 1801 to 1822, Annecy belonged to the Diocese of Chambery and Geneva, but was made anepiscopal see 15 February, 1822, by the bull "Sollicita catholici gregis." The memory ofSt. Bernard of Menthon, founder of the hospice of the Grand St. Bernard, is stillhonoured in the Diocese of Annecy. St. Francis de Sales andSt. Jane Frances de Chantal founded the Congregation of the Visitation at Annecy in 1610; at the death of its foundress theconvents belonging to this order numbered 87. Therelics of thesesaints are preserved in theChurch of the Visitation at Annecy. The ancientBenedictine abbey of Talloires, near the Lac d'Annecy, lends a certain picturesqueness to the scene. The Diocese of Annecy comprised (end of 1905) 267,496 inhabitants, 29 first classparishes, 270 second classparishes, and 167 vicariates, formerly with state subventions.
MERCIER, Souvenirs hist. d'Annecy (Annecy, 1878); PETTEX, Statistique hist. du dioc. d'Annecy; Mem. de l'acad. Sales (1880), II, 119œ154; POUCET, La cathedrale d'Annecy et ses tombeaux (Annecy, 1876); DUCIS, Etude sur l'origine d'Annecy (Annecy, 1863).
APA citation.Goyau, G.(1907).Annecy. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01540a.htm
MLA citation.Goyau, Georges."Annecy."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 1.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1907.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01540a.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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