The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges (Latin: Archidioecesis Bituricensis; French: Archidiocèse de Bourges) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire. Bourges Cathedral stands in the city of Bourges in the department of Cher. Although this is still titled as an Archdiocese, it ceased as a metropolitan see in 2002 and is now a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of Tours. In 2002 it lost its metropolitan function (and thus the archbishop no longer wears the pallium), its province having ceased to exist (the province had already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had initially corresponded - Albi had been erected as an archbishopric in the medieval context of heresiological conflict; Orléans, Chartres, and Blois - historically dependent on Sens - had been attached to Paris, from which they passed to Bourges in the 1960s). The Archdiocese (also the three above- mentioned sees) is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tours; other dioceses until recently dependent on Bourges are now suffragans of the Clermont-Ferrand Archdiocese. Historical ecclesiastical geography has here thus changed to correspond with France's new regions, much as diocesan and provincial boundaries from Napoleon's Concordat of 1801 onwards changed mainly in accordance with those of the Revolution's départements. History The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses. Bishops of Bourges To 600 St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century) Sevitianus Aetherius Thecretus Marcellus (all prior to 337) Saint Viateur (Viator) 337–354 : Leothère 354–363 : Pauper 363–377 Palladius (377–384) : Villice 384–412 : Avit 412–431 : Saint Pallais II 448–462 Leo (453) Euloge 462–469 Simplicius (472–480) Saint Tétrade 494–506 Rorice 512–? ?–? : Siagre ?–? : Saint Humat : ?–? Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535)) 533–535 Saint Honoré II 535–537 Saint Arcade 537–549 Saint Désiré (549–552) Saint Probien 552–559 Saint Félix 560–573 Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century) Sulpitius I of Bourges (584–591) Saint Eustase 591–591 Saint Apollinaire 591 –