Chambéry

The city and arrondissement of Chambéry in Savoie, France, has been the historical capital of Savoy since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made it his seat. It had a population of 55,786 in 1999.

Archbishop of Chambéry

Chambéry is also an archdiocese that does not precisely conform to the modern arrondissement. It comprises some communes in the arrondissement of Annecy (Haute-Savoie), and in the arrondissement of Albertville (Savoie).

Related Topics:
Archdiocese - Arrondissement - Haute-Savoie

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Amadeus IX, duke of Savoy and his Duchess Yolande of France built a ducal chapel for their prized relic, the Santo Sudario, the Holy Shroud (now in Turin). In 1467 Pope Paul II erected a chapter directly subject to the Holy See. In 1515 Leo X would have made the deanery an archbishopric and published a bull to that effect, but Francis I, King of France objected; it was only in 1775 that this deanery was separated from the Diocese of Grenoble by Pius VI, who, in 1779, created it a bishopric with the see at Chambéry, a fourth bishop for Savoia. After the Revolution, with Chambéry returned to the Kingdom of Sardinia, it became the seat of an archbishop (1817).

Related Topics:
Relic - Holy Shroud (now in Turin) - Pope Paul II - Francis I, King of France - Grenoble - Pius VI - Revolution

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The Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, founded in 1135, is one of the burial places of the House of Savoy. At Notre-Dame de Myans (established before the 12th century), St Francis de Sales officiated. Francis I of France went to Notre-Dame de l'Aumone at Romilly (13th century) as a pilgrim. The Sisters of St Joseph, an order founded at Chambéry in 1812 and devoted to teaching and charitable work, are now widespread.

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