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List of bishops of Sion

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ685578 ↗
Source-derived summary

List of bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion:

Late Antiquity

Bishops of Agaunum (Octodurum)

Early Middle Ages

Prince-bishops of Sion

Middle Ages

Western Schism

loyal to Avignon

loyal to Rome

Renaissance to early modern

Modern history

References

"Sion (diocèse)" in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of bishops of Sion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.