Senez

Senez
The cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Senez
Coat of arms
Senez
Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Senez
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement	Digne-les-Bains
Canton	Barrême
Intercommunality	Moyen Verdon
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gilles Durand
Area1	70.27 km2 (27.13 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	186
• Density	2.6/km2 (6.9/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	04204 / 04330
Elevation	748–1,720 m (2,454–5,643 ft) (avg. 780 m or 2,560 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Senez is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Ecclesiastical history

Marcellus I, the first known bishop of Senez, attended the Council of Agde in 506; nevertheless, Senez must have been an episcopal city as early as 439.

Jean IV Soanen, the Oratorian, noted for his opposition to the Bull "Unigenitus", was Bishop of Senez from 1696 until the time of his deposition in 1727.

By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Digne was made to include the two departments of the Hautes-Alpes and Basses Alpes, in addition to the former diocese of Digne, the archdiocese of Embrun, the dioceses of Gap, Sisteron and Senez, a very considerable part of the diocese of Glandèves and diocese of Riez, and fourteen parishes in the Archdiocese of Aix and the Diocese of Apt.

In 1822 Gap was made an episcopal see and, thus divested of the department of the Hautes Alpes, the present diocese of Digne covers the territory formerly included in the dioceses of Digne, Senez, Glandèves, Riez, and Sisteron.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1765	673	—
1793	765	+13.7%
1800	768	+0.4%
1806	750	−2.3%
1821	787	+4.9%
1831	913	+16.0%
1836	856	−6.2%
1841	860	+0.5%
1846	887	+3.1%
1851	872	−1.7%
1856	857	−1.7%
1861	800	−6.7%
1866	750	−6.2%
1872	675	−10.0%
1876	606	−10.2%
1881	575	−5.1%
1886	552	−4.0%
1891	525	−4.9%
1896	488	−7.0%
1901	472	−3.3%
1906	459	−2.8%
1911	427	−7.0%
1921	352	−17.6%
1926	301	−14.5%
1931	274	−9.0%
1936	256	−6.6%
1946	230	−10.2%
1954	198	−13.9%
1962	172	−13.1%
1968	174	+1.2%
1975	134	−23.0%
1982	153	+14.2%
1990	121	−20.9%
1999	145	+19.8%
2008	186	+28.3%

See also

• Senez Cathedral
• Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

• INSEE

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