Territorial Prelature of Mission de France o Pontigny

Praelatura Territorialis Missionis Galliae seu Pontiniacensis

Bishop(s)

Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado, Prelate

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Territorial Prelature
Erected: 15 August 1954
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Dijon
Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
Country: France
Official Web Site: http://missiondefrance.fr/
Mailing Address: Mission de France, 3 rue de la Pointe, B.P. 101, 94171 Le-Perreux-sur-Marne CEDEX, France
Telephone: 1.43.24.95.95
Fax: 1.43.24.79.55

Past and Present Ordinaries

Achille Liénart † (13 Nov 1954 Appointed - Nov 1964 Resigned)
Gabriel Auguste François Marty † (22 Feb 1965 Appointed - 15 Jul 1968 Resigned)
Henri Marie Charles Gufflet † (15 Jul 1968 Appointed - 22 Feb 1973 Resigned)
André Gustave Bossuyt † (3 Apr 1974 Appointed - 30 Jul 1974 Died)
Gabriel Auguste François Marty † (6 May 1975 Appointed - 25 Nov 1975 Resigned)
Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray † (25 Nov 1975 Appointed - 23 Apr 1982 Resigned)
Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray † (23 Apr 1982 Appointed - 1 Oct 1988 Resigned)
André Jean René Lacrampe, Ist. del Prado † (1 Oct 1988 Appointed - 5 Jan 1995 Appointed, Bishop of Ajaccio)
Georges Edmond Robert Gilson † (2 Aug 1996 Appointed - 31 Dec 2004 Retired)
Yves François Patenôtre (31 Dec 2004 Succeeded - 5 Mar 2015 Retired)
Hervé Jean Robert Giraud (5 Mar 2015 Appointed - 21 May 2025 Resigned)
Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado (21 May 2025 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
15 August 1954	Erected	Archdiocese of Sens (-Auxerre) (Pontigny)	Territorial Prelature of Mission de France o Pontigny (erected)
8 December 2002	Metropolitan Changed		Territorial Prelature of Mission de France o Pontigny (from Sens)

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

1969 668 .0% 1 ap1971

1980 1 ap1981

1990 1 1 0 1 1 ap1991

1999 850 2 2 425 4 ap2000

2000 850 1 1 850 5 ap2001

2001 840 1 1 840 5 ap2002

2002 840 1 1 840 5 ap2003

2003 800 1 1 800 6 ap2004

2004 800 7 ap2005

2013 850 1 1 850 14 1 ap2014

2016 760 2 2 380 15 1 ap2017

2019 760 2 2 380 15 1 ap2020

2021 760 2 2 380 15 1 ap2022

2023 760 2 2 380 15 1 ap2024

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Parishes	Source
1969		668	.0%					1	ap1971
1980								1	ap1981
1990				1	1	0	1	1	ap1991
1999	850			2	2	425	4		ap2000
2000	850			1	1	850	5		ap2001
2001	840			1	1	840	5		ap2002
2002	840			1	1	840	5		ap2003
2003	800			1	1	800	6		ap2004
2004	800						7		ap2005
2013	850			1	1	850	14	1	ap2014
2016	760			2	2	380	15	1	ap2017
2019	760			2	2	380	15	1	ap2020
2021	760			2	2	380	15	1	ap2022
2023	760			2	2	380	15	1	ap2024