Archdiocese of Quebec
Archdiocese of Quebec | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Canada |
Diocesan bishop | Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix ISPX |
Auxiliary bishop |
Marc Pelchat Martin Laliberté PME |
Vicar General | Marc Pelchat |
founding | April 11, 1658 |
surface | 35,180 km² |
Parishes | 201 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Residents | 1,277,354 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics | 1,015,815 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
proportion of | 79.5% |
Diocesan priest | 349 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious priest | 261 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,665 |
Permanent deacons | 84 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Friars | 591 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious sisters | 1,971 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | French |
cathedral | Notre-Dame de Quebec |
Website | www.diocesequebec.qc.ca |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Chicoutimi Diocese of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Diocese of Trois Rivières |
The Archdiocese of Québec ( Latin Archidioecesis Quebecensis , French Archidiocèse de Québec ) in Canada is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the New World north of Mexico . It was founded in 1658 as the Apostolic Vicariate of New France , made a diocese in 1674 and an archdiocese in 1819.
The diocese lost large parts of its territory with the establishment of the dioceses of Halifax and Kingston in 1817, Winnipeg in 1844, Montréal in 1852 and Chicoutimi in 1878.
The Archbishop of Québec is entitled "Primate of Canada". Cathedral church is Notre-Dame de Québec in Québec .
Bishops
- 1658–1688 François de Montmorency-Laval
- 1688–1727 Jean-Baptiste de la Croix Chevrière de Saint-Vallier
- 1727–1733 Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay
- 1733–1739 Pierre Hermann Dosquet
- 1739–1740 François Louis Pourroy de Lauberivière
- 1741–1760 Henri-Marie Dubreuil de Pontbriand
- 1766–1784 Jean-Olivier Briand
- 1784–1788 Louis-Philippe-François Mariauchau d'Esglis
- 1788–1797 Jean-François Hubert
- 1797–1806 Pierre Denaut
Archbishops
- 1806–1825 Joseph-Octave Plessis
- 1825–1833 Bernard-Claude Panet
- 1833-1850 Joseph Signay
- 1850–1867 Pierre-Flavien Turgeon
- 1855–1870 Charles-François Baillargeon
- 1871–1898 Elzéar-Alexandre Cardinal Taschereau
- 1898–1925 Cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin
- 1925–1926 Paul-Eugène Roy
- 1926–1931 Cardinal Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau
- 1931–1947 Cardinal Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
- 1947–1981 Maurice Cardinal Roy
- 1981–1990 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon
- 1990-2002 Maurice Couture RSV
- 2002–2010 Cardinal Marc Ouellet PSS
- since 2011 Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix ISPX