bishop and Turgot had been fellow students at the Sorbonne and were friends. Turgot also promoted the growing of the potato, the use of the spinning wheel, and the manufacture of porcelain. Since the separation of churches and state in 1905 Before the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, there were in the diocese of Limoges Jesuits, Franciscans, Marists, Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Sulpicians. The principal congregations of women which originated here are the Sisters of the Incarnation founded in 1639, contemplatives and teachers, who were restored in 1807 at Azerables, and have houses in Texas and Mexico. The Sisters of St. Alexis, nursing sisters, founded at Limoges in 1659. The Sisters of St. Joseph, founded at Dorat in February, 1841, by Elizabeth Dupleix, who had visited the prisons at Lyons with other pious women since 1805. The Congregation of Our Saviour and the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin, a nursing and teaching congregation founded at la Souterraine, in 1835, by Joséphine du Bourg. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd (also called 'Marie Thérèse nuns'), nursing sisters and teachers, had their mother-house at Limoges. In 2016 there were 97 female religious and 10 male religious serving in the Diocese of Limoges, a decline of 47 since 2013. Bishops To 1000 Saint Martial, 3rd century Saint Aurelian, 3rd century Ebulus ? Alticus ? Emerinus ? Hermogenian ? Adelfius I ? Dativus 4th century Adelfius II 4th century Exuperius 4th century Astidius 4th century Peter du Palais 506 Ruricius 507 Ruricius II 535–553 Exochius 6th century Ferreolus 575–597 Asclepius 613 Saint Loup 614–631 Simplicius 7th century Felix ca. 650. Adelfius III Rusticus 669 Autsindus 683 Hergenobert 7th century Ermenon 8th century Salutaris 8th century Saint Sacerdos 720 Ausuindus 8th century Agericus Saint Cessadre 732]]. Rorice III. 8th century Ebulus I. 752–768 Asclepius ca. 793 Reginbert 794-817. Odoacre 821–843 Stodilus 850–861 Aldo 866 Geilo 869 Anselm 869–896 Turpin D'Aubusson 905–944 Ebalus II 958–963 Hildegaire 977–990 Alduin 990–1012 1000 to 1300 Géraud I 1012–1020 Jourdain de Laront 1029–1051 Itier Chabot 1052–1073 Guy de Laront 1076–1086 Humbauld de Saint-Sèvère 1087–1095 Guillaume D'Uriel 1098–1100 Pierre Viroald 1100–1105 Eustorge 1106–1137 Gérald II du Cher 1142–1177 Sébrand Chabot 1179–1198 Jean de Veyrac 1198–1218 Bernard de Savène 1219–1226 Guy de Cluzel 1226–1235 [Guillaume du Puy] 1235 Durand<ref>Durandus had been Provost of S. Junianus and Canon of Limoges. He was the subject of