Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

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Archdiocese of Quebec
Archidioecesis Quebecensis
Basic information
Location Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Territory Quebec City and environs
Population 1,076,180 Catholics
Rite Roman Rite
Patron St. Ann
Ecclesiastical province Archdiocese of Quebec
Established January 12, 1819
Cathedral Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral
Bishop Archbishop of Quebec
Website Archdiocese of Quebec
Current leadership
Pope Benedict XVI
Metropolitan Marc Ouellet

Archbishop of Quebec
Diocesan Bishop Marc Ouellet

Bishop of Quebec
Auxiliary bishops Jean-Pierre Blais, Pierre-André Fournier, Gilles Lemay

Auxiliary Bishops of Quebec

The Archdiocese of Québec (Latin: Archidioecesis Quebecensis, French: Archidiocèse de Québec) is the oldest Catholic see in the New World north of Mexico. It was founded as the Apostolic Vicarate of New France in 1658 and was elevated to a Diocese in 1674 and an Archdiocese in 1819. It lost large pieces of its territory with the formation of the Dioceses of Halifax and Kingston in 1817, the Diocese of Charlottetown in 1829, the Diocese of Winnipeg in 1844 and the Diocese of Montreal (see Bishops of Montreal) in 1852. The Archbishop of Quebec has the ceremonial title of Primate of Canada since 24 January 1956 that was given to the Archbishop by Pope Pius XII.

The cathedral of this diocese is Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral in Quebec City.

[edit] List of bishops

  1. Bishop François de Montmorency-Laval (1658-1688)
  2. Bishop Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier [1] (1688-1727)
  3. Bishop Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay (1727-1733)
  4. Bishop Pierre-Herman Dosquet (1733-1739)
  5. Bishop François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière (1739-1740)
  6. Bishop Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand (1741-1760)
  7. Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand (1766-1784)
  8. Bishop Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d’Esgly (1784-1788)
  9. Bishop Jean-François Hubert (1788-1797)
  10. Bishop Pierre Denaut (1797-1806)
  11. Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis (1806-1825)
  12. Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet (1825-1833)
  13. Archbishop Joseph Signay (1833-1850)
  14. Archbishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (1850-1867)
  15. Archbishop Charles-François Baillargeon (1855-1870) - Catholic Encyclopedia article
  16. Cardinal Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (1871-1898)
  17. Cardinal Archbishop Louis Nazaire Bégin (1898-1925)
  18. Archbishop Paul-Eugène Roy (1925-1926)
  19. Cardinal Archbishop Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau (1926-1931)
  20. Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (1931-1947)
  21. Cardinal Archbishop Maurice Roy (1947-1981)
  22. Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon (1981-1990)
  23. Archbishop Maurice Couture (1990-2002)
  24. Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet

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