Roman Catholic Diocese of Uzès

[7] The date of the beginning of coinage by the bishops is unknown, but the privilege was confirmed by Louis the Younger in 1156, and again by Philip II in 1211.

Prior Guillaume de Grimoard held office as vicar-general of the bishop of Uzès, from 1357 to 1362, before becoming Pope Urban V.[9] Like many cloth-manufacturing centers (Uzès manufactures serge), the city and the surrounding countryside were strongly Protestant during the Wars of Religion in the 16th century, which wreaked havoc in the Languedoc regions, and Bishop Jean de Saint Gelais (1531–60) became a Calvinist.

[11] Even before he was ordained a priest, he was commissioned by Bishop Michel Poncet de la Rivière of Uzès to preach in Vers, then in Saint-Quentin.

[13] The diocese had two religious houses, one for men, the Cluniac Pont-Saint Esprit; the other for women, the Cistercian Valsauve-de-Bagnols.

[14] Both were closed during the French revolution, their members releaste from their vows by governmental order and pensioned off, the properties appropriated by the government.

For seventy days, from February to April 1813, the city of Uzès was the enforced residence of Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca, the pro-Secretary of State of Pope Pius VII.