Diocese of Metz

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DIOCESE OF METZ (Dioecesis Metensis)

Country : France
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 3rd Century

Official blazon

Argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or.

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Arms of Bishops

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  Jan van Vlaanderen (1279-1282)

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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 de Lorraine (1501-1550)

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  Charles de Guise de Lorraine (1550-1551)

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  Robert de Lénoncourt (1551-1555, Administrator)

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  François de Beaucaire de Péguillon(1556-1568)

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  Louis de Guise de Lorraine (1568-1578)

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  Charles de Lorraine-Vaudémont (1578-1592)

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  Anne Cardinal d’Escars de Givry (1608-1612)

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  Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg (1663-1668)

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  Georges d’Aubusson de la Feuillade(1668-1697)

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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 de Montmorency-Laval (1761-1808)

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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 Lagleize (2013-present)

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