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 territory of the old diocese now belongs to the archdiocese of Toulouse.

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

[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).