Ancient Diocese of Bazas

[contradictory] The diocese must have been created between the first and the third centuries, but because of the large numbers of invaders that passed through this region - Arians, Saracens, Normans - the list of bishops is much reduced during the first millennium.

[citation needed] The first bishop of this diocese is mentioned, without a name, by Gregory of Tours in his De gloria martyrum.

It was suppressed during the French Revolution by the Legislative Assembly, under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790).

[1] By the Concordat of 1801 its territory was unequally divided between the dioceses of Aire, Agen and Bordeaux.

The title of the diocese of Bazas was preserved and assigned to the Archdiocese of Bordeaux-Bazas.