Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun

Christian teaching reached Autun at a very early period, as is known from a funeral inscription, in classical Greek, of a certain Pectorius which dates from the 3rd century.The stone was found in 1839 in the cemetery of St. Peter l'Estrier at Autun, and makes reference to baptism and the Holy Eucharist. {{cite book|author=Lawrence J. Johnson|title=Worship in the Early Church: An Anthology of Historical Sources|url=https://archive.org/details/worshipinearlych0004john|url-access=registration|year=2009|publisher=Liturgical Press|location=Collegeville MN USA|isbn=978-0-8146-6197-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/worshipinearlych0004john/page/216 216]}}

Local recensions of the "Passion" of St. Symphorianus of Autun tell the story that, on the eve of the persecution of Septimius Severus, St. Polycarp assigned to Irenaeus two priests and a deacon (Benignus, Andochius and Thyrsus), all three of whom departed for Autun. St. Benignus went on to Langres, while the others remained at Autun.{{cite journal|last1=Meyer|first1=Wilhelm|title=Die Legende von Irenaeus, Andochius, Thyrsus, und Benignus|journal=Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen|date=1905|volume=8|issue=Philologisch-Historische Klasse|pages=62–73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lpDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62}} According to this legendary cycle, which dates from about the first half of the 6th century, it was not then believed at Autun that the city was an episcopal see in the time of St. Irenaeus (c. 140–211).

Another tradition current at Autun, however, names St. Amator as its first bishop and places his episcopacy about 250.Jean Berthollet, "Questions gallo-romaines et du Haut Moyen Âge – La question des évêques. Le premier évêque d'Autun," in: Annales de Bourgogne, (1945), "Discussions et documents," pp. 38-44; p. 42: "C'est dans le Gallia Christiana de Claude Robert, prêtre de Langres, que se trouve pour la première fois, semble-t-il, l'affirmation qu'Amateur fut le premier évêque d'Autun, et qu'entre lui et Rétice il dut y en avoir eu plusieurs, dont l'un nommé Martin, inconnu par ailleurs." The first bishop known to history, however, is Reticius,Berthollet considers Reticius to have been the first bishop of Autun (the Aeduans): "Bref, on ne trouve aucun désaccord, au contraire, entre la tradition eduenne et l'histoire, et il semble qu'on peut conclure fermement que Rétice a été le premier évêque d'Autun au début du IV^e siècle." an ecclesiastical writer and contemporary of the Emperor Constantine I (306–337).{{cite book|author=Gustav Krüger|title=History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029625575|year=1897|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029625575/page/n376 349]}}

Euphronius, who became Bishop of Autun, is credited with the foundation of the first monastic house at Autun in 421, the Priory of S. Symphorien. In 1792 and 1793 the buildings were sold for the stone material and demolished.{{cite book|author=Paul Muguet|title=Recherches historiques sur la persecution religeuse dans le Departement de Saone-et-Loire pendant la Revolution (1789-1803)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qS03AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA499|volume=Tome deuxieme: L'arrondissement d'Autun|year=1897|publisher=L. Marceau|location=Chalon-sur-Saone|language=fr|pages=499–501}} In 1993 the remains were classified as an historical monument by the French Government.

Monumentum Carte des Monuments Historiques français, [http://www.monumentum.fr/ancienne-abbaye-saint-symphorien-pa00132879.html Ancienne abbaye Saint-Symphorien à Autun] In 452, Bishop Euphronius observed a comet, and sent a description of the event to Count Agrippinus, Magister Militum.{{cite book|author1=Arnold Hugh Martin Jones|author2=John Robert Martindale|title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: A.D. 395-527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5W6vCO_pYUC&pg=PA37|volume=II|year=1971|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-20159-9|pages=37–38}} Bishop Euphronius and Bishop Patiens were highly praised by Sidonius Apollinaris, son-in-law of the Emperor Avitus and Bishop of Clermont Ferrand, for conducting the election of a bishop of Chalons in a particularly upright fashion, without simony, aristocratic favoritism, or submission to the popular will.Epistles IV. 25: {{cite book|author=Sidonius Apollinaris|editor=Dalton, O.M.|title=The Letters of Sidonius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4VfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA47|volume=II|year=1915|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxrord|pages=46–48}} In 472 Bishop Sidonius invited Bishop Euphronius to Bourges for the election of Sidonius' Metropolitan.{{cite book|author=C. J. Haefele|title=A History of the Councils of the Church, from the Original Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1AMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19|volume=IV (A.D. 451-620)|year=1895|publisher=T. & T. Clark|page=19}}

Beginning in 599, the Bishop of Autun enjoyed until the late 20th century the right of wearing the pallium of a metropolitan bishop, in virtue of a privilege granted to Bishop Syagrius and his See by Pope Gregory I (590–604).Pope Gregory I, Epistulae IX. 222 (July 599). {{cite book|title=Monumenta Germaniae historica: Epistolarum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TAMAQAAMAAJ|volume=Tomi II, pars I|year=1899|publisher=Monumenta Germaniae Historica/Weidmann|location=Berlin|language=de, la|pages=213–214}} Autun was to be a metropolis throughout its own locality, with second place in Gaul after Lugdunum....ut metropolis suo per omnia loco et honore servato ecclesia civitatis Augustodunis, cui omnipotens Deus praeeesse te voluit, post Lugdunensem ecclesiam esse debeat et hunc sibi locum ad ordinem ex nostra auctoritatis indulgentia vindicare. Gregory was very eager to have a church council in France to stamp out the vice of simony, and he appealed to Queen Brunhilda to use her influence to organize it; he especially recommended Bishop Syagrius of Autun to the Queen as his most reliable agent.Pope Gregory I, Epistulae IX. 213 (July 599). {{cite book|title=Monumenta Germaniae historica: Epistolarum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TAMAQAAMAAJ|volume=Tomi II, pars I|year=1899|publisher=Monumenta Germaniae Historica/Weidmann|location=Berlin|language=de, la|pages=198–200}}

During the Merovingian era Autun was a politically important diocese. Two Bishops figured prominently in political affairs: Syagrius of Autun,{{cite book|last=Alain Rebourg|title=Sept siècles de civilisation gallo-romaine, vus d'Autun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPIQAQAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Société Eduenne des Lettres, Sciences et Arts|location=Autun|language=fr|pages=146–148}} bishop during the second half of the 6th century, a contemporary of Germanus, bishop of Paris, who was a native of Autun; and Leodegar (St. Léger), bishop from 663 to 680, who came into conflict with Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace of Neustria, and was put to death by order of Theoderic III.

The Abbey of St. Martin was founded in 602{{cite book|author=Jacques G. Bulliot|title=Essai historique sur l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin d'Autun de l'ordre de Saint-Benoit: Par J.-Gabriel Bulliot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMkGAAAAcAAJ|volume=1|year=1849|publisher=M. Déjussieu|language=fr|pages=xxxviii–xl, 15–28}} by Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, and it was there that her remains were interred – the deposed monarch having been repeatedly racked for three days, torn apart by four horses, and then burnt on a pyre.{{cite book|author=Susan Wise Bauer|title=The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u2oP2RihIgC&pg=PA249|year=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-07817-6|pages=249–251}} By the mid-tenth century, however, the abbey was no longer in operation. In 949 the Burgundian Counts Giselbert and Hugh imported monks from Cluny to reform the moribund monastery, and to elect their own abbot.{{cite book|author=Constance Brittain Bouchard|title=Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hpfHfnm2hjkC&pg=PA14|date=August 2009|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca|isbn=978-0-8014-7526-9|pages=92–93}} When the abbey was destroyed in 1793, Brunhilda's sarcophagus was removed, and it is now in the Musée Lapidaire in Avignon.

The first council was held in 663, 670, or 677, under Bishop Leodegarius, for the purpose of regulating the discipline of the Benedictine monasteries. Monks were forbidden to have 'special friends' (compatres), or to have woman friends, or to be about in towns. The council ordered all ecclesiastics to learn by heart the Apostles Creed and the Athanasian Creed.J. D. Mansi (ed.), [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20vs/200_Mansi/1692-1769,_Mansi_JD,_Sacrorum_Conciliorum_Nova_Amplissima_Collectio_Vol_011,_LT.pdf Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio] Tomus undecimus (11) (Florence 1765), pp. 123–128. For the creeds, p. 125. This seems to be the earliest mention of the Athanasian Creed in France. The 19th century Benedictine Cardinal Pitra says in his "Histoire de St. Léger"{{cite book|author=Jean Baptiste Pitra|title=Histoire de Saint Léger: évêque d'autun et martyr, et de L'église des Francs au septième siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXVWrmtPXqMC|year=1846|publisher=Waille|location=Paris|language=fr|page=passim}} that this canon may have been directed against Monothelitism, then seeking entrance into the Gallican churches, but already condemned in the Athenasian Creed. The Rule of St. Benedict was also prescribed as the normal monastic code.

In a Council of 1065, Saint Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, along with four bishops, accomplished the reconciliation of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, with Hagano the Bishop of Autun.J. D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio Tomus XIX (Venice 1775), pp. 1039–1040. {{cite book|author=Carl Joseph Hefele|editor=Oden Jean Marie Delarc, tr. |title=Histoire des conciles d'après les documents originaux: 870-1085|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgcaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA418|volume=Tome VI|year=1871|publisher=Adrien le Clere et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs|location=Paris|language=fr|page=418}}

In 1077 Hugues, Bishop of Die held a council at Autun, by order of Pope Gregory VII. The council deposed Manasses, Archbishop of Reims, for simony and usurpation of the see, and reproved other bishops for absence from the council.J. D. Mansi (ed.), [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20vs/200_Mansi/1692-1769,_Mansi_JD,_Sacrorum_Conciliorum_Nova_Amplissima_Collectio_Vol_020,_LT.pdf Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio] Tomus vigesimus (20) (Florence 1765), pp. 489–492. In 1094 Hugues, by then Archbishop of Lyon, and thirty-three other bishops meeting at Autun renewed the excommunication of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, the Antipope Guibert and their partisans, and also that of King Philip of France, guilty of bigamy. Simony, ecclesiastical disorders, and monastic usurpations provoked other decrees, only one of which is extant, forbidding the monks to induce the canons to enter monasteries.Mansi, Tomus vigesimus, pp. 799–800.

There was also a Council in Autun in October 1094.J. D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio Tomus XX (Venice 1775), pp. 799–802.

In the 1150s a quarrel over jurisdiction and independence broke out between Bishop Henri de Bourgogne of Autun and Abbot Reginald of Flavigny. The quarrel became so serious that it reached the royal court, and continued there for some time. Finally, in 1160, King Louis VII ruled that his predecessors had infeudated the Bishops of Autun with the lands of Flavigny,The grant had already been made in the 9th century by Charles the Simple, and was confirmed by Pope John VIII: Gagnarre, p. 74. and that the Abbot of Flavigny was subinfeudated to the Bishops of Autun.{{cite book|editor=A. Chaumasse|title=Cartulaire de l'évêché d'Autun connu sous le nom de Cartulaire rouge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVhKAAAAYAAJ|year=1880|publisher=Dejussieu|location=Autun|language=fr, la|pages=14–16}} The ruling scarcely settled the quarrel, however, which dragged on throughout the rest of the century, requiring repeated royal intervention; conflicts appear repeatedly in the thirteenth century as well.

Following the beginning of the Great Schism in 1378, the bishops of Autun were appointed, as they had been throughout the fourteenth century, by the Avignon pope, now Clement VII. After the Concordat of 1516 between Francis I and Leo X, however, the King of France held the right to appoint bishops in France, with the consent of the pope. This arrangement persisted until the French Revolution.

Gabriel de Roquette was bishop from 1666 till 1702, through most of the reign of Louis XIV. According to the Duc de Saint-Simon, he was the model for the character "Tartuffe" in Molière's play Tartuffe.{{cite book|author=J Henri Pignet|title=Un évêque réformateur sous Louis XIV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmIAAAAAMAAJ|volume=II|year=1876|publisher=A. Durand|location=Autun|language=fr|pages=539–570}}

The devotion to the Sacred Heart originated in the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial, founded in 1644, and now the object of frequent pilgrimages. Its promoter was Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque, a cloistered nun who claimed to have visions between 1673 and 1675, in which Jesus personally taught her the devotion.M.J. Bernadot, "Le developpement historique de la devotion au Sacre- Coeur," La Vie spirituelle 2 (1920): 193–215. {{cite book|author=Raymond Darricau|title=Sainte Marguerite-Marie et le message de Paray-le-Monial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lCAHAAACAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Desclée|language=fr|isbn=978-2-7189-0607-2}}

Much later, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the future diplomat, Foreign Minister, and Prince of Benevento, was Bishop of Autun from 1788 to 1791. He participated in the Fête de la Fédération in Paris on 14 July 1790, and celebrated a pontifical Mass as bishop.Lacombe, pp. 230–232. On 27 December 1790 he took the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and notified his clergy in Autun of the fact on 29 December, with the recommendation that they do the same.Lacombe, pp. 241–244. He was elected Constitutional Bishop of Saône-et-Loire, but, eager to avoid further trouble, he himself resigned the Constitutional bishopric in January 1791.Lacombe, pp. 249–251. The fact is mentioned in Gouverneur Morris' journal on January 19. Charmasse, p. 56. But as to the Diocese of Autun of the Ancien Régime, that resignation required papal permission, and Pope Pius VI obliged by dismissing Talleyrand as a schismatic in a bull of 13 April 1791.Lacombe, pp. 250–252. He continued to be a bishop, however, until Napoleon forced Pius VII to concede that the Bishop of Autun "might wear secular attire and serve the French Republic in an official capacity," something that Talleyrand had been doing anyway since 1790. The Pope, however, found no precedent in church history for a bishop being returned to the lay state, and refused to do so in 1801; Talleyrand was still a bishop when he died in 1838.{{cite book|author=Jean Orieux|title=Talleyrand: The Art of Survival|url=https://archive.org/details/talleyrandartofs0000orie|url-access=registration|edition=Flammarion 1970, French|year=1974|publisher=Knopf|location=New York|isbn=978-0-394-47299-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/talleyrandartofs0000orie/page/283 283]–286, 649}} As a bishop Talleyrand carried out the consecration of two Constitutional bishops on 24 February 1791, the bishops Louis Alexandre Expilly of the Aisne, and Claude Eustache François Marolles of Finistère. The ceremony took place in Paris at the Church of the Oratory, and Talleyrand was assisted by the titular bishops Miroudot du Bourg of Babylon and Gobel of Lyda.Pius VI, Collectio bullarum, p. 50. The consecrations were illicit but valid, and on 13 April 1791 a papal bull deprived Talleyrand of his faculties and threatened excommunication.Orieux, pp. 84–86. Pius VI, Collectio bullarum, p. 53–54: Pariter declaramus suspensos esse ab Omni exercitio episcopalis ordinis, Carolum episcopum Augustodunensem, Joannem-Baptistam episcopum Babylonis, et Joannem Josephum episcopum Liddae, sacrilegos consecratores seu adsistentes, et suspensos partier esse ab exercitio sacerdotalis.... Those who had taken the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy were given forty days to repent and repudiate their false oaths.

As soon as Talleyrand resigned, the voters of the new Constitutional diocese of Saône-et-Loire elected a new bishop, Jean-Louis Gouttes. He had been a priest of the Roman Catholic Church for twenty-three years. He had been a vicar in a parish near Bordeaux, then at Gros-Caillou, and obtained a chapel at Montaubon. He obtained his own parish at Argellieres in the diocese of Narbonne in 1785, though he was chosen as one of the deputies to the National Assembly from the diocese of Béziers in March 1789. He served on the finance committee, and was elected President of the National Assembly on 29 April 1790. On 14 June he oversaw the passage of Article 29 of the Constitution, which removed the power of instituting bishops from the hands of the Pope.Charmasse, pp. 4–6; 12. On 15 February 1791 Abbé Gouttes was elected by an absolute majority of the representatives of the voters of Saône-et-Loire, meeting in Mâcon for the purpose of electing a new bishop in accordance with the Constitution of 1790.Charmasse, p. 68. On 3 April 1791 he was consecrated at Notre Dame in Paris along with four other Constitutional bishops by Constitutional Bishops Lamourette (Rhône-et-Loire), Périer (Puy-de-Dôme), and Prudhomme (Sarthe).Charmasse, p. 77. On 7 January 1794, however, Gouttes was arrested as a counter-revolutionary and crypto-royalist, and sent to Paris. He spent several months in prison, was tried on orders of the Committee of Public Safety, and sent to the guillotine on 26 March 1794.Charmasse, pp. 287–288.

The diocese of Autun was without a bishop of any complexion until Napoleon came to power and decided that, for the sake of French unity and his own plans, peace had to be arranged with the Papacy. In 1801, under the new Concordat, Pius VII reorganized the episcopal structure of France and suppressed the bishopric of Mâcon. Bishop Gabriel-François Moreau, who had been Bishop of Macon but who had emigrated during the Revolution, was appointed Bishop of Autun on 20 July 1802.*{{cite book|author=La Rochette |title=Histoire des évêques de Mâcon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjgoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA599|volume=II|year=1867|publisher=É. Protat|language=fr|pages=603–612}}. {{cite book|author=G. de Leusse |title=Le dernier évêque de Mâcon: Monseigneur Moreau, 1721-1802|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rR8oAAAAYAAJ|year=1922|location=Macon |publisher=Protat Frères, Imprimeurs |language=fr}} He died on 8 September 1802 at the age of eighty.David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmorgf.html Bishop Gabriel-François Moreau]{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}} The office of Archdeacon of Mâcon continued to exist, but its holder now belonged to the diocese of Autun, and was made a Canon of the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare. The Archdeaconries of Autun and of Châlons were combined into one office.Etat du diocèse d'Autun, p. 2.

In 1874 Adolphe-Louis-Albert Perraud was named Bishop of Autun, having previously been Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Sorbonne. He was elected a member of the French Academy in 1882, and named a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1893 though the fact was not made public until 1895.Salvador Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: [http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1893.htm#Perraud Perraud] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427192251/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1893.htm#Perraud |date=2017-04-27 }}. Retrieved: 2016-07-07. He died in 1906.

In the Diocese of Autun are still to be seen the remains of the Benedictine Abbey of Tournus{{cite book|author=Pierre Juenin|title=Nouvelle histoire de l'abbaïe ... de saint Filibert, et de la ville de Tournus, par un chanoine de la même abbaïe (P. Juenin).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1UOAAAAQAAJ|year=1733|publisher=Antoine de Fay|location=Dijon|language=fr}} and the Abbey of Cluny, to which 2,000 monasteries were subject.

Pope Gelasius II (1118–1119) died at Cluny, and therefore Cluny was the site of the Conclave that elected Pope Calixtus II (1119–1124).{{cite book|author=Mary Stroll|title=Calixtus the Second, 1119-1124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-lIhdrikjMC|year=2004|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden-Boston|isbn=90-04-13987-7|pages=58–65}}

On 15 December 1962, Pope John XXIII gave the Consistorial Congregation authority, with the consent of the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order, to grant the title of the defunct territorial Abbey of Cluny to the Bishop of Autun.Acta Apostolicae Sedis 55 (Città del Vaticano 1963), p. 348: "... de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, decrevit ut posthac, donec aliter provideatur, Episcopus pro tempore Augustodunensis Abbas Cluniacensis etiam nuncupari valeat eoque titulo frui possit."David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dautu.html Diocese of Autun-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon-Cluny] Retrieved: 2016-07-11{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}

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:[c. 270: Amator (I)]

:[c. 273: Martin (I)]The name "Martin" is first mentioned in 1626, by Claude Robert, in Gallia Christiana. There is no documentary evidence at all. Berthollet, p. 42.

:[c. 273: Reverianus]

• c. 310–334: ReticiusReticius was sent by Constantine to the synod of Rome in 313. He attended the Council of Arles in 314. According to the tradition in his Lives, he was successor of Simplicius, a century later. Duchesne II (second ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA176 pp. 176-177], no. 1. Charles Munier, Concilia Galliae, A. 314 — A. 506, {{in lang|la}}, (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 14: "Riticius episcopus, Amandus presbyter, Felomasius diaconus de ciuitate Agustudunensium."
• 355: Cassian of Autun
• c. 374: HegemoniusDuchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA177 p. 177], no. 3.
• c. 420: Simplicius of AutunGregory of Tours places Simplicius between Reticius and Cassian. Duchesne considers the possibility that there were two Simplicii. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA177 pp. 177-178], nos. 4-5.
• Evantius{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines | date=1880 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqT-R6-CPxoC&dq=Evantius&pg=PA425 |page=425| publisher=J. Murray }}
• Leontius of Autun{{cite web| url = http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=S02722 | title = Leontius, bishop of Autun, 5th cent| series = The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity|publisher =Oxford University }}. Leontius is only a name in martyrologies, variously: Leontius, Leguntius, Legonius, Leonus. They have two feast days, but no date of episcopacy. One entry has him buried at Lyon. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA338 p. 337].
• c. 450–490:Euphronius of AutunEuphronius wrote a letter about celestial signs observed in Gaul At Easter, 452. Bishop Euphronius attended the Council of Arles, against Lucidus, ca. 475–480. Charles Joseph Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church: From the Original Documents, Volume 4 (Edinburgh: Clark, 1895), [https://books.google.com/books?id=%20b9lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA20 pp. 20-24]. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA178 p. 178], no. 6. Munier, pp. 159-160.
• c. 495: FlavianusBishop Flavianus was a contemporary of Clovis I, King of the Franks (481–511). Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA178 p. 178], no. 7.
• c. 517: Pragmatius of AutunBishop Pragmatius participated in the Council of Epaone in September 517. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA178 p. 178], no. 8. Charles de Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 — A. 695, {{in lang|la}}, (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), p. 36: "Praumatius in Christi nomine episcopus ciuitatis Agustae relegi et subscripsi."
• Proculus (I)
• Valeolus
• Proculus (II)
• c. 533–538: AgrippinusBishop Agrippinus attended the Council of Orange in 533, and the Council of Orange in 538. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA178 pp. 178-179], no. 9.
• 540–549: Nectarius of AutunBishop Nectarius was present at the Council of Orléans on 28 October 549. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA179 p. 179], no. 10. de Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 — A. 695, p. 159: "Nectarius episcopus ecclesiae Austidunensis subscripsi."
• Eupard
• 560: Rémi or Bénigne
• c. 560–600: Syagrius of AutunSyagrius attended councils at Lyon (570), Paris (573), Lyon (581), Mâcon (581), and Mâcon (585). He received letters from Pope Gregory I between 596 and 599. Syagrius is mentioned as deceased in a letter of November 602. {{cite book|author=Gregory I. Halfond|title=Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIjEVrB3b4kC&pg=PA31|year=2010|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden-Boston|isbn=978-90-04-17976-9|pages=37–40}}. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA179 p. 179], no. 11.
• Le(i)fastus ?A burgindian bishop is mentioned in the hagiographical life of Radegonde. The name occurs in a (disordered) list of bishops preserved in the cathedral of Autun. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA179 p. 179], no. 12.
• FlavianusThe only notice of Flavianus is his name in the "Roman Martyrology", and there is no indication of his date. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA345 p. 347].
• 614 : RoccoRacho (Rocco) attended the Council of Paris in 614. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA179 p. 179], no. 13. De Clercq, p. 280: "Ex ciuitate Agustidunum Rocco episcopus."
• 625–630 : AuspiciusA bishop of Autun attended the Council of Clichy in 626 or 627. He is listed as "Babo", though elsewhere he is called Auspicius. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA179 p. 180], no. 14. De Clercq, p. 297: "Ex civitate Austituno Babo episcopus." Bishop Auspicius attended a council presided over by Archbishop Sonnatius of Rheims ca. 630: J.D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, {{in lang|la}}, Vol. 10 (Florence: A. Zatta 1764), p. 595.
• c. 657: FerréolusFerreolus was already bishop during the lifetime of King Dagobert I, who died in 639. He attended the Council of Chalin-sur-Saône in 650. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA347 pp. 348-349]. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA180 p. 180], no. 15. De Clercq, p. 308: "Feriolus episcopus ecclesie Agustodinensis subscripsi."
• 659–678: Leodegar
• c. 678–c. 690: HermenariusHe had been Abbot of S. Symphorien, and was appointed bishop by Childeric II in 675. {{cite book|author=Louis Duchesne|title=Fastes épiscopaux de l' ancienne Gaule|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxyxtcaq6JgC&pg=PA180|year=1900|publisher=Fontemoing et Cie|location=Paris|language=fr|page=180}}
• 692: AnsbertOn 5 August 696, Bishop Ansbert wrote his Will. Jules Marion, "Notice sur l'abbaye de La Bussière (Côte-d'Or)," {{in lang|fr}}, in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes Vol. 4 (Paris 1843), pp. 549-563, at p. 550, with note 3. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA181 p. 181], no. 19.
• c. 732: Vascon
• Amatre (II)
• c. 744: Morannus
• c. 755: Gairon
• 762: HiddoBishop Hiddo participated in the assembly of Attigny in 762: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Concilia, Vol. II, Concilia aevi Karolini , {{in lang|la}}, (Hannover-Leipzig: Hahn 1906), p: 73: "(16) Hiddo episcopus civitas Augustoduno." Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA181 p. 181], no. 20.
• Rainaud
• Martin (II)
• Alderic of Autun
• 815–c. 840: ModoinModoin: Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA181 p. 181], no. 21.
• 840–842:Bernon or Bernhard
• c. 843: AlteusAlteus received a privilege from Charles the Bald on 5 July 843. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA181 pp. 181-182], no. 22.
• {{circa}} 850–865: JonasIonas: Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA182 p. 182], no. 23.
• {{circa}} 866–873: LiudoBishop Liudo was present at the Council of Soissons on 8 August 866, and at the Council of Chalon-sur-Saône on 21 May 873. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA365 p. 366]. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA182 p. 182], no. 24.
• 875–893: AdalgariusAdalgarius was a chaplain of Charles the Bald. He was named abbot of Flavigny in 877, and Chancellor of King Boso of Provence in 879. He died in 893, of poison, it was suspected, by Girfredus, a monk of the abbey of Flavigny. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA182 pp. 182-183], no. 25.
• c. 894–919: Gualo (Wallon) de VergyGualo: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA367 p. 369-371]. Duchesne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZCX0dxqv1YC&pg=PA183 p. 183], no. 26.
• c. 920–929: Hervée de VergyHervaeus was the nephew of his predecessor, Bishop Gualo de Vergy. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA369 p. 371-373].
• 935–968: RotmondRothmundus: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA371 pp. 373-374].
• c. 970–976: GérardGerardus: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA373 p. 374-376].

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• ca. 977–1024: Gautier (I)
• 1025–1055: Elmuin
• ca. 1055–1098: Hagano (Aganon)
• 1098–1112: NorgaudGallia christiana IV, pp. 384–389. Gams, p. 500
• 1112–1140: Etienne de BaugéFrancis Mershman, s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Stephen of Autun. Retrieved: 2016-07-07.)
• 1140: Robert de Bourgogne
• 1140–1148: Humbert de BaugéGams, p. 500, col. 2.
• 1148–1170 or 1171: Henri de Bourgogne
• 1171–1189: Etienne (II)
• 1189–1223: Gautier (II)Gualterius died in 1223. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, p. 91.
• 1224–1245: Guy de VergyGuy: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA397 pp. 399-401]. Eubel I, p. 72.
• 1245–1253: Anselin de Pomard
• 1253–1281: Girard de La RocheGirard de La Roche or de Beauvoir was elected in 1253, confirmed in 1254 by Pope Innocent IV. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA401 pp. 402-405]. Eubel I, p. 72.
• 1283–1286: Jacques de BeauvoirFollowing the death of Bishop Gerard in 1281, there was a contested election, between the cathedral's provost, Jacques de Beauvoir, who had 27 votes; and Canon Guy de Simentone, who had 10. When the matter was submitted to the pope, the Cardinal Bishop of Porto was assigned to investigate the matter , and Canon Guy resigned his claim to the cardinal. The procurators of the minority abandoned their case. Jacques was then confirmed by Pope Martin IV on 16 May 1283. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA401 pp. 405–406]. François Olivier-Martin, Les registres de Martin IV, {{in lang|la}}, (Paris: Fontemoing, 1901), [https://books.google.com/books?id=zQE%20AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA138 pp. 138-139, no. 323]. Eubel I, p. 72, with notes 2 and 3.
• 1287–1298: Hugues d'ArcyGallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA405 pp. 406–408]. Eubel I, p. 73.

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• 1299–1308: BarthélémyBartholomaeus had been Dean of the cathedral of Poitiers. On the death of Bishop Hugues, there was a contested election, several in the Chapter voting for Guy de Simentone, of Succeio; others voting for Gerard de Belloviso, of Beligniac, both provosts in the diocese of Autun. They appeared at the papal court in Rome, and in the presence of Pope Boniface VIII they resigned their claims. On 6 April 1299, Pope Boniface then appointed Bartholomaeus, Dean of the cathedral of Poitiers. Gallia christiana IV, p. 408. Georges Digard, Les registres de Boniface VIII (Paris: E. Thorin 1890), [https://books.google.com/books?id=juExAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 p. 367, no. 2982]. Eubel I, p. 73.
• 1309–1322: Elie Guidonis
• 1322–1331: Pierre Bertrandresigned on being named cardinal
• 1331–1343: Jean I d'Arcytranslated from Mende: Eubel I, p. 342.
• 1343–1345: Guillaume d'Auxonne
• 1345–1351: Guy de La Chaume
• 1351–1358: Guillaume de Thureytranslated to Lyon
• 1358–1361: Renaud de Maubernardtranslated from Lisbon
• 1361–1377: Geoffroi David or Pauteix
• 1377–1379: Pierre Raimundi de Barrière MirepoixBishop Pierre resigned on being named a cardinal on 16 December 1378, by Pope Clement VII. He died in Avignon on 13 June 1383. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA415 pp. 416-417]. Eubel I, pp. 27, no. 4; 73.
• 1379–1387: Guillaume de Vienne, O.S.B. {Avignon Obedience)Guillaume had been abbot of Mont S. Secani. He was appointed bishop of Autun by Pope Clement VII on 11 February 1379. He was translated to Beauvais on 26 August 1387. Eubel I, pp. 73, 132.
• 1387–1400: Nicolas de Coulon {Avignon Obedience)Nicolaus died on 20 December 1400. Eubel I, p. 73.
• 1401–1414: Milon de Granceypreviously Dean of Autun; he was Administrator of Lyon in 1413
• 1419–1436: Frédéric de GranceyFrederic (Ferricus) was the nephew of his predecessor, Bishop Milo. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA417 pp. 419].
• 1436–1483: Cardinal Jean RolinHe continued to hold the diocese of Autun after being named cardinal in 1449. Rolin died on 22 June 1483. Gams, p. 500. Gallia christiana IV, pp. 419–421. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, p. 80.

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• 1490–1500: Antoine de ChalonHe had already been elected bishop by 10 July 1483. He resigned in 1500. Oliverius de Vienne was elected to succeed him, but he was not approved by Pope Alexander VI. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica II, pp. 80; 81, note 1.
• 1500–1501: Joannes RolinJean Rolin, junior, was a Doctor in utroque iure, and a royal councillor. He was Dean of the cathedral Chapter of Autun. He was appointed bishop on 13 November 1500, and died the next year. Eubel II, p. 81.
• 1501–1503: Louis d'Amboise
• 1503–1505: Philippe de Clèves AdministratorBishop Philippe of Nevers served as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Autun from 9 August 1503 to 5 March 1505, the date of his death. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA421 p. 423]. Eubel II, p. 81, 204; III, p. 95, note 2.
• 1505–1546: Jacques Hurault de ChevernyJacques was appointed on 31 March 1505. He died on 26 June 1546. Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA421 pp. 423-424]. Eubel III, p. 95 with note 8; 96.
• 1548–1550: Ippolito II d'EsteEubel III, p. 96 with note 4.
• 1550–1557: Philibert Dugny de Courgengoux, O.S.B.
• 1558–1572: Pierre de MarcillyPierre de Marcilly: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA423 p. 425].
• 1585: Charles d'AilleboustCharles d'Ailleboust: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA423 p. 425].
• 1588–1612: Pierre SaunierSaunier: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA425 p. 426].
• 1621–1652: Claude de la MagdelaineMa(g)delaine: Gallia christiana IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA425 pp. 426-427]. Gauchat, ''Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 70 with note 2.
• 1653–1664: Louis Dony d'Attichy, O.Minim.Dony d'Attichy: Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, pp. 70 with note 3, 294. Bergin, pp. 610-611.
• 1666–1702: Gabriel de Roquette{{cite book|author=J.-Henri Pignot|title=Un évêque réformateur sous Louis XIV, Gabriel de Roquette, évêque d'Autun: sa vie, son temps et le Tartuffe de Molière d'après des documents inédits|volume=I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oL0dAAAAYAAJ|year=1876|publisher=A. Durand et Pedone-Lauriel|location=Autun|language=fr}}. Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, pp. 70 with note 4.
• 1702–1709: Bernard de SenauxGallia christiana IV, p. 430.
• 1710–1721: Charles Andrault de Maulévrier-Langeron{{cite book|author=Hugues Du Tems|title=Le clergé de France, ou tableau historique et chronologique des archevêques, évêques, abbés, abbesses et chefs des chapitres principaux du royaume, depuis la fondation des églises jusqu'à nos jours, par M. l'abbé Hugues Du Tems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyKOCuD_1rEC&pg=PA197|year=1775|publisher=Brunet|location=Paris|language=fr|page=197}} Gallia christiana IV, p. 431. He was Almoner of Louis XIV.
• 1721–1724: Charles-François d'Hallencourt de Dromesnil
• 1724–1732: Antoine-François de Bliterswick
• 1732–1748: Gaspard de Thomas de La ValetteGaspard was born in the Chateau de la Valette, and held the degree of doctor of theology. He was nominated bishop of Autun by King Louis XV on 12 April 1732, and confirmed (preconised) by Pope Clement XII on 11 August 1732. He died in Paris by 10 July 1748. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 67 with note 2.
• 1748–1758: Antoine de Malvin de MontazetAntoine held a licenciate in theology from the University of Paris, and was a fellow of the Sorbonne. He served as vicar general of Soissons, and was a councillor and aumonier of King Louis XV. He was nominated bishop of Autun on 18 March 1748, and preconised by Pope Benedict XIV on 15 July 1748. He resigned on 18 July 1758, and was named archbishop of Lyon by Pope Clement XIII on 2 August 1758. He died on 2 May 1788. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 67 with note 3; 268 with note 4.
• 1758–1767: Nicolas de BouilléBouillé was a bachelor of theology and had a licenciate in Canon Law. He was a count-canon of Lyon, and vicar general of the diocese. He was nominated by King Louis XV and approved by Pope Clement XIII on 11 September 1758. He died on 22 February 1767. {{cite book|author=Pius Bonifatius Gams|title=Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=os9DAQAAMAAJ|year=1873|publisher=Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz|location=Ratisbon|page=501}}. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 67 with note 4.
• 1767–1788: Yves-Alexandre de MarbeufMarbeuf was later archbishop of Lyon. {{cite book | author=Bernard, J.F. | title=Talleyrand: A Biography | publisher=Putnam | location=New York | year=1973 | isbn=0-399-11022-4 |page=58}}. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 67 with note 5.
• 1788–1791: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordTalleurand: {{cite book | author=Bernard, J.F. | title=Talleyrand: A Biography | publisher=Putnam | location=New York | year=1973 | isbn=0-399-11022-4 |page=60}}. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, p. 67 with note 6.

;Constitutional Church (schismatic)

:April 1791 – 1793: Jean-Louis Gouttes (Constitutional Bishop)Gouttes fled Autun when The Terror began, but was arrested on 7 January 1794, and taken to Paris, where he was executed on 26 March 1794. {{cite book|title=Annuaire historique pour l'annee 1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo8PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53|volume=12|year=1847|publisher=Société de l'histoire de France/Crapelet|location=Paris|language=fr|page=54}} {{cite book|author=Anatole de Charmasse|title=Jean-Louis Gouttes, évêque constitutionnel du Département de Saône-et-Loire, et le culte catholique à Autun pendant la Révolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_s4AQAAMAAJ|year=1898|publisher=Dejussieu|location=Autun|language=fr}} *{{cite book|author=Paul Pisani|title=Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA317|year=1907|publisher=A. Picard et fils|location=Paris|language=fr|pages=317-320}}

: 1801 : Thomas-Juste PoullardPisani, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aAQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA320 pp. 320-322].

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• 1802 : Gabriel-François MoreauMoreau had previously been Bishop of Vence (1759-1764) and Bishop of Mâcon (1764-1801). He had stayed in his diocese of Mâcon during the Revolution, but, after six months of imprisonment, fled to London without resigning. {{cite book|author=Joseph F. Byrnes|title=Priests of the French Revolution: Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SiJyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|year=2014|publisher=Penn State Press|location=University Park PA USA|isbn=978-0-271-06490-1|pages=217–219}}. {{cite book|title=Mémoire des évêques françois résidens à Londres, qui n'ont pas donné leur démission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7oJkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA76|year=1802|publisher=Cox and Son and Baylis-Prosper|location=London|page=76}} He was nominated by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte to the bishopric of Autun, the diocese of Mâcon having been suppressed, on 9 April 1802, at the age of 80, and was confirmed on 16 May. He died on 8 September 1802. Ritzler & Sefrin VI, pp. 281 and 434; VII, p. 60.
• 1802–1806: François de Fontanges (with the title Archbishop)He had been Almoner of Marie Antoinette in 1772, Bishop of Nancy in 1783, Archbishop of Toulouse in 1787. He had emigrated. In 1801 he submitted his resignation as Archbishop of Toulouse to Pius VII, and in 1802 was named Bishop of Autun. {{cite book|author=Al. du Mège|title=Histoire générale de Languedoc: avec des notes et les pièces justificatives, composée ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udw4AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA189|volume=Tome VII|year=1844|publisher=J.B. Paya|location=Toulouse|language=fr|pages=33–34}} Regnier, p. 254-255. Ritzler and Sefrin VI, pp. 124, 300, 405; VII, p. 60.
• 1806–1819: Fabien-Sébastien Imberties{{cite book|editor=M. L. Sandret|title=Revue d'histoire nobiliaire et d'archéologie héraldique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWFLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA469|volume=3 |series=New Series |year=1867|publisher=Dumoulin|location=Paris|language=fr|page=469}}
• 1819–1829: Roch-Etienne de Vichy{{cite book|author=Paul Muguet|title=Recherches historiques sur la persécution religieuse dans le département de Saone-et-Loire pendant la Révolution, 1789-1803|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7AUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA436|volume=Tome III|year=1901|publisher=Typ. et lithographie de L. Marceau|location=Chalon-sur-Saone|language=fr|page=436}}
• 1829–1851: Bénigne-Urbain-Jean-Marie du Trousset d'HéricourtHéricourt was nominated at the age of 31, by King Charles X on 27 April 1829, and confirmed by Pope Pius VIII on 27 July 1829. He died on 8 July 1851. Ritzler & Sefrin VII, p. 60.
• 1851–1872: Frédéric-Gabriel-Marie-François de Marguerye{{cite book|author=Pierre Moulier|title=Frédéric de Marguerye, un évêque archéologue dans le Cantal (1837-1852)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3s5tYO7Dp0C&pg=PA11|date=n.d.|publisher=Cantal Patrimoine|location=Saint-Flour|language=fr|id=GGKEY:G9NK741NKQ7}}
• 1872–1873: Léopold-René Leséleuc de Kerouara{{cite book|author=Alfred Le Roy (chanoine.)|title=Un évêque breton, Mgr Léopold de Léséleuc de Kerouara, évêque d'Autun, Châlons et Mâcon (1814-1873). |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGCyygAACAAJ|year=1932|publisher=Impr. cornouaillaise|location=Quimper|language=fr}}
• 1874–1906: Adolphe-Louis-Albert Perraud (Cardinal, Superior General of the Oratory){{cite book|author=Anne-Marie Lafay|title=Autun à la fin du XIXème siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcBGAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Académie du Morvan|location=Château-Chinon|language=fr|isbn=978-2-9509271-3-2|page=119}}
• 1906–1914: Henri-Raymond VillardHis death notice, by Canon Louis Marcel in [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5578000m/f4.image Bulletin de la société historique et archaeologique de Langres] VII (1915), pp. 107–110.
• 1915–1922: Désiré-Hyacinthe BerthoinRegnier, p. 314.
• 1922–1940: Hyacinthe-Jean ChassagnonDavid M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchass.html Bishop Hyacinthe-Jean Chassagnon]. Retrieved: 2016-07-08{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}
• 1940–1966: Lucien-Sidroine Lebrun (d. 1985)David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blebrun.html Bishop Lucien-Sidroine Lebrun]. Retrieved: 2016-07-08{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}
• 1966–1987: Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M.David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bleb.html Bishop Armond François Le Bourgeois]. Retrieved: 2016-07-08{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}
• 1987–2006: Raymond Gaston Joseph Séguypreviously Bishop of Gap. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bseguy.html Bishop Raymond Gaston Joseph Séguy]. Retrieved: 2016-07-08{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}
• 2006–present Benoît Marie Pascal RivièreDiocèse d'Autun, [http://www.autun.catholique.fr/monseigneur-benoit-riviere.html L'évêque] Retrieved: 2016-07-10.

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