Diocese of Metz

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DIOCESE OF METZ (Dioecesis Metensis)

Country : France
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 3rd Century

Origin/meaning

Michael McCarthy in his Armoria Sedium gives the blazon of the diocesean arms as Argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or.

Arms of Bishops

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  Advence(858-875) Pre-Heraldic

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  Robert(883-917) Pre-Heraldic

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  Thierry(964-984) Pre-Heraldic

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  Adalbéron d’Oberlothringen(984-1005)

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  Bertram(1180-1212)

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  Jacques de Lorraine(1239-1260)

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  Henri de La Tour-du-Pin (Bishop-Elect 1319-1325)

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  Dietrich Bayer von Boppard (1365-1384)

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  Raoul de Coucy (1387-1415)

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  Georg von Baden (1459-1484)

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  Henri de Lorraine-Vaudémont(1485-1501).

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  Jean Cardinal de Lorraine(1501-1550), Cardinal 1518. Appointed Bishop just 3 Years and 2 Months old!

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  Charles Cardinal de Guise de Lorraine(1550-1551) Cardinal 1547 also Archbishop of Reims.

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  Robert Cardinal de Lénoncourt(Administrator 1551-1555), Cardinal 1538 as Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne.

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  François de Beaucaire de Péguillon(1556-1568).

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  Louis Cardinal de Guise de Lorraine (1568-1578), Cardinal 1553 as Bishop of Albi.

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  Charles Cardinal de Lorraine-Vaudémont (III)(1578-1607), Cardinal 1589.

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  Anne Cardinal d’Escars de Givry (de Pérusse), O.S.B.(1608-1612), Cardinal 1596 as Bishop of Lisieux.

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  Georges d’Aubusson de la Feuillade(1668-1697), Archbishop ad personam.

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  Henri-Charles du Camboust de Coislin (1698-1732).

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  Claude de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon (1734-1760)

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  Louis-Joseph Cardinal de Montmorency-Laval (1761-1808), Cardinal 1789.

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  Pierre-François Bienaymé (1802-1806)

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  Gaspard-Jean-André Jauffret (1806-1823)

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  Jacques-François Besson (1824-1842)

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  Paul-Georges-Marie Dupont des Loges (1843-1886)

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  François-Louis (Franz Ludwig) Fleck (1886-1899)

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  Karl Heinrich Johannes Willibrord Benzler, O.S.B.(1901-1919)

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  Jean-Baptiste Pelt (1919-1937)

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  Joseph-Jean Heintz(1938-1958)

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  Paul Joseph Schmitt(1958-1987)

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  Pierre René Ferdinand Raffin, O.P. (1987-2013)

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  Jean-Christophe André Robert Lagleize (2013-)

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