Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
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<catset>Category="Communes of Savoie"</catset><table cellpadding=2 style="float:right; width:307px; background:#e3e3e3; margin-left:1em; border-spacing:1px;"><tr><th colspan=2><b>Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne</b></th></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top>Country </td><td align=center style="padding-top: 0.5em"><div style="float: right; padding: 0.2em">[image]</div> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="France">France</a></td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top><a href="Région in France">Région</a> </td><td align=center><a href="Rhône-Alpes">Rhône-Alpes</a></td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top><a href="Département in France">Département</a> </td><td align=center><a href="Savoie">Savoie</a><br>(<i><a href="Sous-préfecture">Sous-préfecture</a></i>)</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top><a href="Arrondissement in France">Arrondissement</a> </td><td align=center>Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top><a href="Canton in France">Canton</a> </td><td align=center>Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td><a href="Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques">I<small>NSEE</small> Code</a> </td><td align=center>73248</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td><a href="Postal code">Postal code</a> </td><td align=center>73300</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td><a href="Mayor">Mayor</a><br>Term of office </td><td align=center>Roland Merloz<br><a href="2001">2001</a>-<a href="2007">2007</a></td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top>Intercommunality </td><td align=center>Communauté de communes C&#339;ur de Maurienne</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td><a href="Longitude">Longitude</a> </td><td style="text-align: center">6° 20' 45" E </td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td><a href="Latitude">Latitude</a> </td><td style="text-align: center">45° 16' 39" N </td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top>Altitude </td><td align=center>average: 566 m<br>minimum: 489 m<br>maximum: 1,200 m</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td valign=top>Area </td><td align=center>11.51 km²</td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td>Population without<br>double-counting</td><td align=center>8,902 <small>(1999)</small></td></tr><tr bgcolor=ffffff><td>Population density </td><td align=center>773 pers/km²</td></tr></table><p><b>Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne</b> is a <a href="Commune in France">commune</a> of the <a href="Savoie">Savoie</a> <i><a href="Département in France">département</a></i>, in <a href="France">France</a>.<h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne</h2>Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne was a diocese of Savoy during the Ancien Régime. The Duchy of Savoy, which had been a French-speaking province under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of <a href="Piedmont">Piedmont</a>, was invaded by Revolutionary France and later permanently annexed. The diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne was formally suppressed in 1801 by the <a href="Holy See">Holy See</a> in accordance with the Napoleonic <a href="Concordat">Concordat</a>. In 1825, some years after the territory had been passed back to Piedmont by the <a href="Congress of Vienna">Congress of Vienna</a>, Maurienne it was restored as a diocese along with Tarentaise, with territory taken from <a href="Chambéry">Chambéry</a>. By plebiscite of 22 April 1860, Savoy passed to French sovereignty again. In 1966 the two dioceses were once more amalgamated with the metropolitan see of Chambéry, to which their titles were at the same time united.