List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France
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. 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.
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
Province of Bordeaux
- 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
Province of Cambrai
- 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
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
Province of Dijon
- 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
Province of Lyon
- 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
Province of Marseille
- 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
Province of Montpellier
- 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
Province of Paris
- 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
- Saint-Denis-en-France = Seine-Saint-Denis
- Diocese of Versailles = Yvelines
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
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
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
- Diocese 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
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
Province of Toulouse
- 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
Province of Tours
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours = Indre-et-Loire
- Archdiocese of Bourges = Cher and Indre
- Diocese of Blois = Loir-et-Cher
- Diocese of Chartres = Eure-et-Loir
- Diocese of Orléans = Loiret
Under the direct authority of the Holy See
Overseas ecclesiastical provinces
Antilles-Guyane
(Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana)
- Archdiocese of Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre = Martinique
- Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre = Guadeloupe
- Diocese of Cayenne = French Guyana
Under the direct authority of the Holy See
- Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion = Réunion
Papeete
- Archdiocese of Papeete = French Polynesia, minus the Marquesas Islands
- Diocese of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata = Marquesas Islands
Nouméa
- Archdiocese of Nouméa = New Caledonia
- Diocese of Wallis-et-Futuna = Wallis-et-Futuna
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