The bishopric of Saint-Papoul wasfounded on July llth 1317 by Pope John XXII. The bull defining the boundaries of the diocese published on February 22nd 1318 mentions fifty churches, chapels, priories or monasteries. The investigation of the terriers, notarial registers of series G and from the XVIth and XVth centuries, reveals various places of worship, not mentioned on this list, increasing the actual number threefold. The statute of the churches mentioned is not always evident : parish churches, chapels of ease, simple chapels - it is not always possible to tell which. The country churches were very numerous at the time and probably represent relies of communities of the Xth and XIth centuries ; some of these churches are sometimes ment...