sentences:  The See of Lodève was restored in 1877 in the person of the Bishop of Montpellier.The former seat of the Bishops of Lodève, the cathedral was classed a national historical monument in 1840.Originally the cathedral was dedicated to Saint Genesius of Arles, a legal clerk in Arles, who was a martyr of the Diocletian persecution, and was beheaded in 303 (his martyrdom is represented on the keystone of the vault of the apse).