List Of The Roman Catholic Dioceses Of France

The map of the French . 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

( 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

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

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

( 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

( 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)