It is coextensive with the Department of Calvados and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen , also in Normandy. With the Concordat of , the former Diocese of Lisieux was merged with that of Bayeux.
A pontifical brief in authorized the Bishop of Bayeux to call himself Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux. A local legend found in 15th-century breviaries calls St.
His see would according to this therefore have been founded in the 1st century. Regnobert of Bayeux , the same legend tells us, succeeded St. But neither the Bollandists , Jules Lair , nor Louis Duchesne found no basis for this legend; it was only towards the end of the 4th century or beginning of the 5th century that Exuperius might have founded the See of Bayeux.
Odo of Bayeux —97 , brother of William the Conqueror , built the cathedral and was present at the Battle of Hastings. He was imprisoned in for attempting to lead an expedition to Italy to overthrow Pope Gregory VII , and died as a crusader in Sicily.
Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio —48 , papal legate in the Roman Campagna , was trapped in the Castel Sant'Angelo during the siege and pillage of Rome by the Imperial forces led by the Constable de Bourbon. Arnaud Cardinal d'Ossat —04 was a prominent diplomat identified with the second conversion of Henry IV of France from Protestantism to Catholicism.
