Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire

Diocese of Aire et Dax Dioecesis Aturensis et Aquae Augustae Diocèse d'Aire et Dax
Cathedral of St-Jean-Baptiste, Aire
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Bordeaux
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Statistics
Area	9,364 km2 (3,615 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 377,381 264,000 (70%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	Name Changed: 3 June 1857
Cathedral	Cathedral of St-Jean-Baptiste, Aire
Co-cathedral	Cathedral of Nôtre Dame in Dax
Patron saint	Notre-Dame de Buglose
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Hervé Gaschignard
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard
Emeritus Bishops	Philippe Jean Louis Breton (2002-2012)
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire (Lat.: dioecesis Adurensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Landes, in the Region of Gascony in Aquitaine.

It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch under the old regime, but was not re-established until 1822, when it was again made a suffragan of the re-established Archdiocese of Auch, and was assigned the territory of the former Diocese of Aire and Diocese of Acqs (Dax). It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux.

It has been known since 1857 as the Diocese of Aire et Dax.

It is a co-cathedral diocese, with episcopal seats in the Cathedral St-Jean-Baptiste d' Aire and in Nôtre Dame de Dax.

The first reference to a bishop of Aire, on the river Adour, in history is to Marcellus, represented at the Council of Agde, 506. Aire was also the home of St. Philibert; it numbered among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid and founded a chair of mathematics at the University of Bordeaux, though he never visited his diocese.

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