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unusual facts about Bishop of Toulouse



Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.

Risley Park Lanx

Stukeley conjectured that it belonged to Exuperius, the Bishop of Tholouse in 405 AD, who gave it to the Bouge church in Touraine, and that it only ended up in England after it was plundered as spoils of the Battle of Bouge in 1421.


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Exuperius

Upon succeeding Saint Sylvius as bishop of Toulouse, he completed the Basilica of St. Sernin, begun by his predecessor.

Guilhabert de Castres

Born in Castres, he became a Perfect (Parfaits) and, between 1223 and 1226, Bishop of Toulouse in the Cathar Church.