Diocese of Metz

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DIOCESE OF METZ (Dioecesis Metensis)

Country : France
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 3rd Century

Official blazon

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)
Jean-Christophe Lagleize (2013-present)