In April 1802, Catholicism reclaimed its cathedral.

Seminary

Struck by the low quality of the formation of the clergy over which he had come to rule, Bishop Henri Arnaud, in 1651, ordered that all aspirants to ordination to the priesthood must undertake a ten-day retreat, under the direction of the Oratorian fathers. In 1658, two Angevin priests proposed to Bishop Arnaud the establishment of a house of the Community of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet dedicated to the education of priests. In 1660, the bishop ordered that all clerics

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