Mirepoix (French pronunciation: [miʁpwa] ; Occitan: Mirapeis, supposedly from mira peis, meaning see the fish) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.
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The canton of Mirepoix is an administrative division of the Ariège department, southern France. Its borders were not modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Mirepoix.
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The former Catholic diocese of Mirepoix, in south-west France, was created in 1317 by Pope John XXII from the diocese of Pamiers. It existed until the French Revolution, and was suffragan of the Archbishop of Toulouse. Its episcopal seat was in Mirepoix Cathedral in Mirepoix, Ariège.
Among its bishops were:
Raymond Atton d'Auterive 1318–1325
Jacques Fournier 1326–1327, later Pope Benedict XII
Pierre de Piret 1327–1348
Jean I de Cojordan 1348–1361
Arnaud de Villars 1361–1363 or 1362–1362
Pierre-Raymond de Barrière 1363–1368 or 1377
Jean II. 1368 to ca. 1375
Jean de Proins 1376–1377
Guillaume de Provines 9 July to 29 September 1377
Arnaud de La Trémoille 1377 or ca. 1380–1394
Bertrand de Maumont 1394–1405
Guillaume du Puy 1405–1431 or 1433
Guillaume d'Estouteville 1431–1433 or 1440–1441
Jourdain d'Aure 1433–1441 or 1440
Eustache de Lévis-Léran 1441–1462 or 1463
Louis d'Albret 1462–1463
Jean de Lévis-Léran 1463–1467
Scipion Damián 1467–1469
Élie Rivals 1470–1478
Gabriel du Mas 1478–1486
Jean d'Espinay 1486–1493
Vacant 1493–1497
Philippe de Lévis-Léran 1497–1537
David Beaton de Balfour 1537–1546
Claude de La Guiche 1546–1553
Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte 1553–1555
Jean Reuman Suavius 1555–1560
Pierre de Villars I 1561–1576
Pierre de Villars II 1576–1587
Pierre Bonsom de Donnaud 1587–1630
Louis de Nogaret d'Espernon 1630–1655
Louis-Hercule de Lévis de Ventadour 1655–1679
Pierre de La Broue 1679–1720
François-Honoré Casaubon de Maniban 1721–1729
Jean-François Boyer 1730–1736, preceptor to the Dauphin, father of Louis XVI
Quiqueran de Beaujeu 1736–1737
Jean-Baptiste de Champflour 1737–1768
François Tristán de Chambón 1768–1790
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