List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France

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The following is the List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France since december 2002. See also the List of Ancien Régime dioceses of France and the List of French dioceses in the 19th and 20th century for information prior to 2002.

The map of the French ecclesiastical provinces was provisionally reshuffled in 2002, on order to coincide more closely with the map of French administrative regions regions. This meant the creation of a few new metropolitan archbishoprics. This also entailed, for several archbishoprics, the loss of their metropolitan status: their bishops nevertheless retained the title of archbishop. As a result of history, many former bishop's sees were united, mainly as a consequence of the French Revolution. Hence the fact that many dioceses bear the name of several cities. When it is the case, only the first one is the place where the bishop actually resides.

In France, most dioceses coincide with a département, but there are a few exceptions when some arrondissements are attached to a diocese outside the département, or form a separate diocese within the département (this happens mainly in départements with numerous population, such as Nord or Bouches-du-Rhône). Along with the list of the new ecclesiastical provinces and their suffragan dioceses, this list also gives the equivalent of the diocese jurisdiction in departmental terms.

[edit] Province of Besançon

(Franche-Comté and part of Lorraine)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon = Doubs, minus Montbéliard arrondissement
Diocese of Belfort-Montbéliard = Territoire de Belfort and Montbéliard arrondissement
Diocese of Nancy and Toul = Meurthe-et-Moselle
Diocese of Saint-Claude = Jura
Diocese of Saint-Dié = Vosges
Diocese of Verdun = Meuse

[edit] Province of Bordeaux

(Aquitaine)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux and Bazas = Gironde
Diocese of Agen = Lot-et-Garonne
Diocese of Aire and Dax = Landes
Diocese of Bayonne, Lescar and Oloron = Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat = Dordogne

[edit] Province of Cambrai

(Nord-Pas-de-Calais)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cambrai = Nord, arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, Valenciennes
Diocese of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer = Pas-de-Calais
Diocese of Lille = Nord, arrondissements of Dunkerque and Lille

[edit] Province of Clermont

(Auvergne)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Clermont = Puy-de-Dôme — New archdiocese (2002)
Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay = Haute-Loire
Diocese of Moulins = Allier
Diocese of Saint-Flour = Cantal

[edit] Province of Dijon

(Bourgogne)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dijon = Côte-d'Or — New archdiocese (2002)
Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre = Yonne
Diocese of Autun = Saône-et-Loire
Diocese of Nevers = Nièvre
Territorial prelature of the Mission de France at Pontigny

[edit] Province of Lyon

(Rhône-Alpes)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lyon and Vienne = Rhône and the arrondissement of Roanne in the département of the Loire (Vienne, today in the département of Isère, was a metropolitan archbishopric form the Late Roman times down to 1790 : the title of archbishop of Vienne is nowadays borne by the archbishop of Lyon, but the town of Vienne and its arrondissement is part of the diocese of Grenoble)
Archdiocese of Chambéry, Maurienne, and Tarentaise = Savoie
Diocese of Annecy = Haute-Savoie
Diocese of Belley-Ars = Ain
Diocese of Grenoble = Isère
Diocese of Saint-Étienne = Loire, minus the arrondissement of Roanne
Diocese of Valence, Die and Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux = Drôme
Diocese of Viviers = Ardèche

[edit] Province of Marseille

(Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille = Bouches-du-Rhône, arrondissement of Marseille — New archdiocese (2002)
Archdiocese of Aix, Arles and Embrun = Bouches-du-Rhône, minus the arrondissement of Marseille (Arles is in the Bouches-du-Rhône; Embrun, today in the département of Hautes-Alpes, was a metropolitan archbishopric form the Late Roman times down to 1790 : the title of archbishop of Embrun is nowadays borne by the archbishop of Aix, but the town of Embrun is part of the diocese of Gap)
Archdiocese of Avignon, Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange and Vaison = Vaucluse
Diocese of Ajaccio = Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud
Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron = Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon = Var
Diocese of Gap = Hautes-Alpes
Diocese of Nice = Alpes-Maritimes

[edit] Province of Montpellier

(Languedoc-Roussillon)

Metropolitan archdiocese of Montpellier, Lodève, Béziers, Agde, and Saint-Pons = Hérault — New archdiocese (2002)
Diocese of Carcassonne = Aude
Diocese of Mende = Lozère
Diocese of Nîmes, Uzès and Alès = Gard
Diocese of Perpignan-Elne = Pyrénées-Orientales

[edit] Province of Paris

(Ile-de-France)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paris = City-département of Paris
Diocese of Créteil = Val-de-Marne
Diocese of Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes = Essonne
Diocese of Meaux = Seine-et-Marne
Diocese of Nanterre = Hauts-de-Seine
Diocese of Pontoise = Val-d'Oise
Diocese of Saint-Denis-en-France = Seine-Saint-Denis
Diocese of Versailles = Yvelines

[edit] Province of Poitiers

(Poitou-Charentes and Limousin)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Poitiers = Vienne and Deux-Sèvres — New archdiocese (2002)
Diocese of Angoulême = Charente
Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes = Charente-Maritime
Diocese of Limoges = Haute-Vienne and Creuse
Diocese of Tulle = Corrèze

[edit] Province of Reims

(Champagne-Ardenne and Picardie)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Reims = arrondissement of Reims in the Marne and département of the Ardennes
Diocese of Amiens = Somme
Diocese of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis = Oise
Diocese of Châlons = Marne, minus the arrondissement of Reims
Diocese of Langres = Haute-Marne
Diocese of Soissons, Laon and Saint-Quentin = Aisne
Diocese of Troyes = Aube

[edit] Province of Rennes

(Bretagne and Pays-de-la-Loire)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol and Saint-Malo = Ille-et-Vilaine
Diocese of Angers = Maine-et-Loire
Diocese of Laval = Mayenne
Diocèse of Le Mans = Sarthe
Diocese of Luçon = Vendée
Diocese of Nantes = Loire-Atlantique
Diocese of Quimper-Cornouailles and Léon = Finistère
Diocese of Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier = Côtes-d'Armor
Diocese of Vannes = Morbihan

[edit] Province of Rouen

(Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rouen = Seine-Maritime, minus the arrondissement of Le Havre
Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux = Calvados
Diocese of Coutances and Avranches = Manche
Diocese of Évreux = Eure
Diocese of Le Havre = arrondissement of Le Havre in Seine-Maritime
Diocese of Sées = Orne

[edit] Province of Toulouse

(Midi-Pyrénées)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toulouse, Narbonne, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges and Rieux = Haute-Garonne (Narbonne, today in the département of Aude, was a metropolitan archbishopric form the Late Roman times down to 1790 : the title of archbishop of Narbonne is nowadays borne by the archbishop of Toulouse, but the town of Narbonne and its arrondissement are part of the diocese of Carcassonne)
Archdiocese of Albi, Castres and Lavaur = Tarn
Archdiocese of Auch, Condom, Lectoure and Lombez = Gers
Diocese of Cahors = Lot
Diocese of Montauban = Tarn-et-Garonne
Diocese of Pamiers = Ariège
Diocese of Rodez = Aveyron
Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes = Hautes-Pyrénées