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Archdiocese of QuébecQuébec , is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about to the southwest...
is the oldest
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in the
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north of
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. It was founded as the
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of
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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
KingstonKingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, where Lake Ontario runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin.Kingston is the county seat of Frontenac County...
in 1817, the Diocese of
CharlottetownCharlottetown is a Canadian city and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...
in 1829, the Diocese of St. Boniface in 1844 and the Diocese of
MontrealMontreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...
(see Bishops of Montreal) in 1852.
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The
Archdiocese of QuébecQuébec , is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about to the southwest...
is the oldest
CatholicCatholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole...
seeAn episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...
in the
New WorldThe New World is one of the names used for the non-Afro-Eurasian parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and possibly Australia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia,...
north of
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. It was founded as the
Apostolic VicariateAn apostolic vicariate is a form of territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church established in missionary regions and countries which do not have a diocese. It is therefore essentially provisional, though it may last for a century or more...
of
New FranceNew France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to Spain and Britain in 1763...
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
KingstonKingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, where Lake Ontario runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin.Kingston is the county seat of Frontenac County...
in 1817, the Diocese of
CharlottetownCharlottetown is a Canadian city and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...
in 1829, the Diocese of St. Boniface in 1844 and the Diocese of
MontrealMontreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...
(see Bishops of Montreal) in 1852. The Archbishop of Quebec has the ceremonial title of
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of Canada since 24 January 1956 that was given to the Archbishop by
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.
The cathedral of this diocese is
Notre-Dame de Québec CathedralThe Cathedral-minor basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec , located at 20, rue de Buade, Quebec City, Quebec, is the primate church of Canada and seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, the oldest see in the New World north of Mexico.It is also the parish church of the oldest parish in North...
in
Quebec CityQuébec , is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about to the southwest...
.
List of bishops
- Bishop François de Montmorency-Laval (1658-1688)
- Bishop Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier
Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrière de St. Vallier, , was appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop in 1685 by Louis XIV. However, Blessed Pope Innocent XI was not granting any more bulls of investiture and Abbé Saint-Vallier travelled to Canada as vicar-general of Bishop Laval...
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=35016 (1688-1727)
- Bishop Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay
Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, , was bishop of the diocese of Quebec from 1727 to 1733, although he never went to Canada. He sent Bishop Dosquet, who was his coadjutor, to be his administrator. Dosquet followed him as the next bishop of Quebec.- External links :*...
(1727-1733)
- Bishop Pierre-Herman Dosquet
Pierre-Herman Dosquet, , was the fourth bishop of Quebec.Born in Liège, Flanders, Dosquet entered his study for the priesthood in 1715 and volunteered for the Canadian mission in 1722...
(1733-1739)
- Bishop François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière
François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière, , was the fifth bishop of the diocese of Quebec . He was trained in France and had a doctor of theology from the Sorbonne....
(1739-1740)
- Bishop Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand
Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand, , who became the sixth bishop of Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec, was from a titled family and grew up at the Pontbriand château, , France. He received his classical education at La Flèche from the Jesuits and studied theology with the Sulpicians in Paris...
(1741-1760)
- Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand
Jean-Olivier Briand, , was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec from 1766 to 1784.He was ordained as a priest in 1739 and left for Canada in 1741 with another priest, Abbé René-Jean Allenou de Lavillangevin and the newly appointed bishop of Quebec, Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand,...
(1766-1784)
- Bishop Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d’Esgly
Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d’Esgly, , was the eighth bishop of the diocese of Quebec.He was ordained a priest in 1734 and Bishop Dosquet sent him to the parish on Île d'Orléans....
(1784-1788)
- Bishop Jean-François Hubert
Jean-François Hubert, , bishop of Quebec, trained at the Sulpician seminary in Montreal. He was taken under the protection of Bishop Dubreil and served for a time as the bishop's secretary....
(1788-1797)
- Bishop Pierre Denaut
Pierre Denaut, , was the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec and the last before it became an Archdiocese. He served as bishop from 1797 to 1806.He was appointed vicar general in 1790 and coadjutor in 1794...
(1797-1806)
- Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis
Joseph-Octave Plessis was a Canadian Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to the status of an archdiocese....
(1806-1825)
- Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet
Bernard-Claude Panet was a Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec but converted to Nazism.Born in Quebec City, the son of Jean-Claude Panet, he was from a family of 14 children...
(1825-1833)
- Archbishop Joseph Signay
Joseph Signay, , was the third archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec.Signay was ordained in 1802 by Bishop Pierre Denaut and began a number of years of parish duties. In 1814, he was appointed parish priest of Quebec by Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis...
(1833-1850)
- Archbishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon
Pierre-Flavien Turgeon was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec.-External links:*...
(1850-1867)
- Archbishop Charles-François Baillargeon
Charles-François Baillargeon was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop.He was from Lower Canada and studied at the Collège de Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and Collège de Nicolet followed by four years of theology at Quebec where his choice of the priesthood was confirmed...
(1855-1870) - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- Cardinal Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898...
(1871-1898)
- Cardinal Archbishop Louis Nazaire Bégin
Louis-Nazaire Bégin was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1898 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1914.-Biography:...
(1898-1925)
- Archbishop Paul-Eugène Roy
Paul-Eugène Roy was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec.-External links:*...
(1925-1926)
- Cardinal Archbishop Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, OP was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1927.-Early life:...
(1926-1931)
- Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, OMI was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933....
(1931-1947)
- Cardinal Archbishop Maurice Roy
Maurice Roy, CC, OBE was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.-Biography:...
(1947-1981)
- Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon (1981-1990)
- Archbishop Maurice Couture
Maurice Couture, GOQ is a Canadian Archbishop Emeritus and the former Archbishop of Québec.Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, he was ordained a priest in 1951. He was appointed Archbishop of Quebec in 1990 and retired in 2002....
(1990-2002)
- Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet
External links
Official site
- Archdiocese of Quebec on the Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States. The first volume appeared in March 1907 and it was completed in April 1914...