Roman Catholic Diocese of Comminges

The seat of the bishops was at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, now no more than a village, in the modern department of Haute-Garonne in south-west France.

The name of Comminges was incorporated into the titulature of the archbishop of Toulouse on 19 January 1935.

He is now the archbishop of Toulouse-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux.

[2] Sidonius Apollinaris,[3] however, writes of the death of a bishop of Comminges in 473.

[4] Among the bishops of Comminges[5] were: In the church of St. Bertrand of Comminges (The gothic church is of the 14th century), baptism was administered with peculiar ceremonies: the baptismal water was placed in a silver dove with wings displayed (a symbol of the Holy Spirit), and enclosed in a cupola surmounting the font; at the moment of baptizing the dove was lowered over the head of the child by a pulley, and through its open beak the baptismal water was poured (as though grace from heaven).