Diocese of Nanterre

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Diocese of Nanterre
Map of the Diocese of Nanterre
Basic data
Country France
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Paris
Diocesan bishop Matthieu Rougé
Emeritus diocesan bishop François Favreau
Gérard Daucourt
founding October 9, 1966
surface 176 km²
Parishes 81 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 1,586,434 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 950,463 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 59.9%
Diocesan priest 183 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 89 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 3,494
Permanent deacons 49 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 152 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 358 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Sainte-Geneviève et Saint-Maurice
Website diocese92.fr

Located in the Ile-de-France situated Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanterre ( Latin Dioecesis Nemptodurensis , French Diocèse de Nanterre ) was on October 9, 1966 as a diocese in Nanterre founded and is, as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris .

The 175 square kilometer diocese was merged from areas of the Archdiocese of Paris and the Diocese of Versailles .

Bishops of Nanterre

  1. 1966–1982: Jacques Delarue
  2. 1983–2002: François Favreau
  3. 2002–2013: Gérard Daucourt
  4. 2014–2017: Michel Aupetit , now Archbishop of Paris
  5. since 2018: Matthieu Rougé

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Nanterre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


Cathedral of Sainte-Geneviève et Saint-Maurice in Nanterre