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Territorial Prelature of the Mission de France at Pontigny

Coordinates: 47°54′34″N 3°42′52″E / 47.909444°N 3.714444°E / 47.909444; 3.714444
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Territorial Prelature of Mission de France

Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae

Prélature Territoriale de la Mission de France
Cathedral-Abbey of the Assumption in Pontigny
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical provinceDijon
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Dijon
Statistics
Population
- Catholics		(as of 2021)
760
Parishes1
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteLatin Rite
Established15 August 1954
CathedralCathédrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption
Secular priests2 (Diocesan)
15 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PrelateHervé Giraud
Metropolitan ArchbishopAntoine Hérouard
Website
Website

The Territorial Prelature of Mission de France (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae; French: Prélature Territoriale de la Mission de France), also known as the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Pontiniacensis; French: Prélature Territoriale de Pontigny) is a Latin territorial prelature of the Catholic Church, located in the city of Pontigny in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dijon in Burgundy (France).

History

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  • 24 July 1941: The XXVI-th assembly of cardinals and the archbishoprics of France decided to found the Mission de France, opening a seminary in Lisieux, Calvados (Normandy). The purpose of the seminary was to train secular priests to carry out evangelical work in poor French dioceses.[1]
  • 18 January 1954: Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, prefect of the Roman Curia's educational department (now Congregation for Catholic Education, then styled Congregation for Seminaries and Universities), notified the Lille diocese that the Mission de France seminary was to be closed and replaced by an "institute for missionary training" which would prepare priests to be sent to dechristianised regions.[2]
  • 15 August 1954: Established as the Territorial Prelature of Mission de France, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sens.[3]

Prelates

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Histoire Mdf, entry for 24 July 1941 Archived 18 September 2002 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Histoire Mdf, entry for 18 January 1954 Archived 18 September 2002 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Pius XII, "Apostolic Constitution Omnium Ecclesiarum", 15 August 1954: AAS 46 (1954), pp. 567-574
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47°54′34″N 3°42′52″E / 47.909444°N 3.714444°E / 47.909444; 3.714444

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