Also known as:
French: Diocèse d'Annecy;
Latin: Annecium, Dioecesis Anneciensis
ANNECY, Diocese of. - In southeastern France, with its seat at A. (Annecium). Situated at 450 m. on the shores of the lake of the same name, this city is also the capital of the department of Haute-Savoie (4598 sq. km.).
Belonging to the Civitas Cebennessis, it was part of the diocese of Geneva, which was to exist until 1801. At that date all of Savoy was included in the single diocese of Chambéry and Geneva. Finally, on 15 February 1822, with the bull Sollicita catholici gregis, Pius VII erected a new diocese suffragan to Chambéry, fixing its seat at A. The diocese, which embraces the territory of the department of Haute-Savoie, except for the cantons of Alby and Rumilly, ceded to that of Chambéry, and the canton of Ugines (Savoy), has a population of 260,000 Catholics out of 270,742 inhabitants, with 477 priests. It comprises 2 archdeaconries, Thonon and A., 43 archpriestships and 312 parishes. The diocese of A., whose religious vitality is worthy of note, is particularly famous for St. Francis (v.) de Sales and St. Jane Frances (v.) de Chantal.
Bibliography6 worksFor the history of A. much material in the Mémoires et documents de l'Académie Salisienne, Annecy 1879, and following years; cf. also: U. Ch
BIBL.: For the history of A. much material in the Mémoires et documents de l'Académie Salisienne, Annecy 1879, and following years; cf. also: U. Chevalier, Repertoire des sources historiques du Moyen âge: Togo-Bibliographie, I, Montbéliard 1894, coll. 164-65; L. Alloing, Etudes de géogr. eccl. Diocèse d'A., Rodez 1899; J.-F. Gonthier, Oeuvres historiques, 3 vols., Thonon 1902; Ch. Marieux and M. Le Roux, Bouton, Annecy 1913; A. Gavard, s. v. in DHG, III, coll. 356-79.
Antonio Soirat
THE MONASTERY OF THE VISITATION
St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal founded there on June 6, 1610 the Order of the Visitation (v.) in the little chapel of the "Gallery." St. Francis de Sales consecrated the church in 1618; five years later his mortal remains were laid there. The numerous miracles worked at his tomb and at that of the saint of Chantal drew pilgrims in ever greater numbers, so that it became necessary to build a larger church, completed in 1648.
Sold by the revolutionaries, the sanctuary was bought back and restored at the end of the nineteenth century. The relics of the founding saints were transferred, in 1911, to the new convent built facing the lake.
Bibliography2 worksR. Souarn, Visitation de s.t.e Marie, Paris 1923, passim; A. Gavard, s. v. in DHG, III, col. 365.
BIBL.: R. Souarn, Visitation de s.t.e Marie, Paris 1923, passim; A. Gavard, s. v. in DHG, III, col. 365.
Soirat, Antonio, and Romualdo Souarn. “Annecy, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1369–1370. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/annecy-diocesi-di.
MLA
Soirat, Antonio, and Romualdo Souarn. “Annecy, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1369–1370. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/annecy-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_annecy_diocesi_di,
author = {Soirat, Antonio and Souarn, Romualdo},
title = {Annecy, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1369--1370},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/annecy-diocesi-di}
}
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