antibes - Ancient Diocese of Grasse
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It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory passing to the diocese of Nice.
The first known Bishop of
antibes Ancient Diocese of Grasse Antibes is Armentarius who attended the Council of Vaison in 442; Louis Duchesne considered it possible that the Remigius, who
antibes signed at the Council of Nîmes in 396 and in antibes 417 received a letter from Pope Zosimus, may have been Bishop of Antibes before Armentarius.
Bishops of Grasse worthy of mention are: Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio (1537-1648); the poet Antoine
antibes Gare dAntibes Godeau (1636-53), one of the most celebrated habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where he was nicknamed Julia s dwarf antibes on account of his small stature.
The arrondissement of Grasse was separated from the diocese of Fréjus in 1886, and given to the bishopric of Nice which since unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and Vence.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
. With its see antibes at Grasse Cathedral, it then existed until the French Revolution.
The former French Catholic diocese of Grasse was, from the fourth century until 1244, the diocese of Antibes.
