List of Bishops of Troyes

This is a list of bishops of Troyes.

  • 1716–1742 : Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
  • 1742–1758 : M. Poncet de la Rivière
  • 1758–1761 : Jean-Baptiste-Marie Champion de Cicé
  • 1761–1790 : Louis-Claude-Mathias-Joseph Conte de Barral (later archbishop of Tours)

In 1790 the ancien régime and the diocese were abolished by the French revolutionaries. The diocese was restored in 1791 and was given constitutional bishops by the regime.

  • 1791–1793 : Augustin Sibille (constitutional bishop)
  • 1802–1802 : Marc-Antoine de Noé
  • 1802–1808 : Louis-Apolinaire de la Tour du Pin-Montauban
  • 1809–1825 : Etienne-Marie de Boulogne
  • 1825–1843 : Jacques-Louis-David de Seguin des Hons
  • 1843–1848 : Jean-Marie-Mathias Debelay (later archbishop of Avignon)
  • 1848–1860 : Pierre-Louis Cœur
  • 1860–1875 : Emmanuel-Jules Ravinet
  • 1875–1898 : Pierre-Louis-Marie Cortet
  • 1898–1907 : Gustave-Adolphe de Pélacot (later archbishop of Chambéry)
  • 1907–1927 : Laurent-Marie-Etienne Monnier
  • 1927–1932 : Maurice Feltin (later bishop of Sens, archbishop of Bordeaux, archbishop of Paris, also cardinal)
  • 1933–1938 : Joseph-Jean Heintz (later bishop of Metz)
  • 1938–1943 : Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (later archbishop of Bourges, also cardinal)
  • 1943–1967 : Julien Le Couëdic
  • 1967–1992 : André Pierre Louis Marie Fauchet
  • 1992–1998 : Gérard-Antoine Daucourt (later bishop of Orléans)
  • 1999 onwards : Marc-Camille-Michel Stenger

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