Rodez No. 1 / Rodés

INFORMATION

FontID: 03637ROD
Church/Chapel: Baptistery [disappeared]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the cathedral] Rue Frayssinous, 12000 Rodez, France -- Tel.: +33 5 65 87 12 50
Country Name: France
Location: Aveyron, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Rodez is located off the N88, in the heart of the Rouerge, on the N bank of the river Aveyron; the baptistery was located in the area of the present cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rodez et Vabres
Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian
Church Notes: early-Christian baptistery consecrated in 476 by the then bishop of Clermont, Sidoine Apollinaire
Corblet (1881-1882) informs that a building known as "le Baptistère", located near the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Rodez, is the baptistery whose consecration St. Sidoine Apollinaire promised to perform. (In Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 72)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.350833, 2.573889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 21′ 3″ N, 2° 34′ 26″ E
UTM: 31T 466039 4910929

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882