Archdiocese of Québec

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Bishop(s) Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Cardinal, Archbishop Jean-Pierre Blais, Auxiliary Bishop Pierre-André Fournier, Auxiliary Bishop Gilles Lemay, Auxiliary Bishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V., Archbishop Emeritus Suffragan Dioceses Chicoutimi Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Trois Rivières

General Information Type of Jurisdiction: Archdiocese Elevated: 12 January 1819 Metropolitan See Rite: Latin (or Roman) Province: Québec Country: Canada Square Kilometers: 35,180 (13,588 Square Miles) Conference Region: Quebec Catholic Directory Abbreviation: Q Official Web Site: http://www.diocesequebec.qc.ca/ Mailing Address: 1073 Boul. René-Lévesque Ouest, Québec, G1S 4R5, Canada Telephone: (418)688-1211 Fax: 688-1399

Historical Details

• Vicariate Apostolic of New France (Nouvelle-France)
  • Erected: 11 April 1658
  • Vicariate
  • Country: Canada

• Diocese of Québec
  • Latin Name: Quebecensis
  • Elevated: 1 October 1674
  • Province: Québec
  • Country: Canada

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Past and Present Ordinaries

• Bl. François de Laval de Montmorency † (11 Apr 1658 Appointed - 24 Jan 1688 Resigned)
• Jean-Baptiste de la Croix Chevrière de St. Vallier † (Apr 1685 Appointed - 26 Dec 1727 Died)
• Louis-François Du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap. † (26 Dec 1727 Succeeded - 12 Sep 1733 Resigned)
• Pierre-Herman Dosquet, P.S.S. † (12 Sep 1733 Succeeded - 25 Jun 1739 Resigned)
• François-Louis Pourroy de L'Auberivière † (22 Mar 1739 Appointed - 20 Aug 1740 Died)
• Henri-Marie du Breuil de Pontbriand † (30 Nov 1740 Appointed - 8 Jun 1760 Died)
• Jean-Olivier Briand † (21 Jan 1766 Appointed - 29 Nov 1784 Resigned)
• Louis-Philippe-François Mariauchau d'Esglis † (2 Dec 1784 Succeeded - 4 Jun 1788 Died)
• Jean-François Hubert † (12 Jun 1788 Succeeded - 1 Sep 1797 Resigned)
• Pierre Denaut † (1 Sep 1797 Succeeded - 17 Jan 1806 Died)
• Joseph-Octave Plessis † (17 Jan 1806 Succeeded - 4 Dec 1825 Died)
• Bernard-Claude Panet † (4 Dec 1825 Succeeded - 14 Feb 1833 Died)
• Joseph Signay † (14 Feb 1833 Succeeded - 3 Oct 1850 Died)
• Pierre-Flavien Turgeon † (3 Oct 1850 Succeeded - 25 Aug 1867 Died)
• Charles-François Baillargeon † (12 Apr 1855 Appointed - 13 Oct 1870 Died)
• Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau † (24 Dec 1870 Appointed - 12 Apr 1898 Died)
• Louis Nazaire Bégin † (12 Apr 1898 Succeeded - 18 Jul 1925 Died)
• Paul-Eugène Roy † (18 Jul 1925 Succeeded - 20 Feb 1926 Died)
• Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, O.P. † (9 Jul 1926 Appointed - 31 May 1931 Died)
• Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, O.M.I. † (11 Dec 1931 Appointed - 17 Jan 1947 Died)
• Maurice Roy † (2 Jun 1947 Appointed - 20 Mar 1981 Retired)
• Louis-Albert Vachon † (20 Mar 1981 Appointed - 17 Mar 1990 Retired)
• Maurice Couture, R.S.V. (17 Mar 1990 Appointed - 15 Nov 2002 Retired)
• Marc Ouellet, P.S.S. (15 Nov 2002 Appointed - )

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Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Vicariate Apostolic of New France (Nouvelle-France)
11 April 1658	Erected		Vicariate Apostolic of New France (Nouvelle-France) (erected)
Diocese of Québec
1 October 1674	Elevated	Vicariate Apostolic of New France (Nouvelle-France)	Diocese of Québec
4 July 1817	Territory Lost	Diocese of Québec	Vicariate Apostolic of Nova Scotia (erected)
12 January 1819	Territory Lost	Diocese of Québec	Vicariate Apostolic of Upper Canada (erected)
Archdiocese of Québec
12 January 1819	Elevated	Diocese of Québec	Archdiocese of Québec
11 August 1829	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Charlottetown (erected)
13 May 1836	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Montréal (erected)
30 September 1842	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Saint John in America (erected)
16 April 1844	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Vicariate Apostolic of North-West (Nord-Ouest) (erected)
12 July 1844	Elevated		Archdiocese of Québec (becomes a Metropolitan)
8 June 1852	Territory Lost	Diocese of Montréal Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (erected)
8 June 1852	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Trois Rivières (erected)
15 January 1867	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Rimouski (St. Germain of) (erected)
28 August 1874	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe Diocese of Trois Rivières	Diocese of Sherbrooke (erected)
28 May 1878	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Chicoutimi (erected)
23 June 1951	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Québec	Diocese of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (erected)

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Statistics

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Archdiocese of Québec
1950	622,000	632,100	98.4%	1,100	351	1,451	428		399	6,500	285	ap1951
1966	710,421	716,864	99.1%	1,052	513	1,565	453		1,360	7,720	275	ap1967
1970	761,728	768,351	99.1%	1,005	576	1,581	481		148	6,992	272	ap1971
1976	873,165	885,601	98.6%	957	560	1,517	575	26	1,479	6,500	276	ap1977
1980	954,359	993,138	96.1%	894	614	1,508	632	35	1,319	6,223	274	ap1981
1990	1,041,116	1,063,406	97.9%	704	454	1,158	899	62	1,045	4,657	273	ap1991
1999	1,042,762	1,075,188	97.0%	568	349	917	1,137	79	763	3,816	254	ap2000
2000	1,014,361	1,047,001	96.9%	550	356	906	1,119	81	778	3,812	249	ap2001
2001	1,027,948	1,072,950	95.8%	535	361	896	1,147	82	762	3,771	234	ap2002
2002	1,040,227	1,080,135	96.3%	518	351	869	1,197	86	747	3,766	233	ap2003
2003	1,047,425	1,098,212	95.4%	518	342	860	1,217	93	767	3,502	229	ap2004
2004	1,076,180	1,149,301	93.6%	498	348	846	1,272	91	734	3,282	227	ap2005

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

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Affiliated Bishops

• Lionel Audet † (Priest: 8 Jul 1934; Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Feb 1952 to 19 Aug 1989)
• Charles-François Baillargeon † (Priest: 1 Jun 1822; Coadjutor Archbishop: 14 Jan 1851; Apostolic Administrator: 12 Apr 1855; Archbishop: 25 Aug 1867 to 13 Oct 1870)
• Charles-François Bailly de Messein † (Priest: 20 Mar 1767; Coadjutor Bishop: 26 Sep 1788 to 20 May 1794)
• Louis Nazaire Bégin † (Priest: 10 Jun 1865 to 1 Oct 1888; Coadjutor Archbishop: 22 Mar 1892; Archbishop: 12 Apr 1898 to 18 Jul 1925)
• Jean-Pierre Blais (Priest: 11 May 1974; Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Nov 1994)
• Augustin Magloire Alexandre Blanchet † (Priest: 3 Jun 1821 to 28 Jul 1846)
• Francis Xavier Norbert Blanchet † (Priest: 18 Jul 1819 to 1 Dec 1843)
• Jean-Olivier Briand † (Bishop: 21 Jan 1766 to 29 Nov 1784)
• Jean-Baptiste de la Croix Chevrière de St. Vallier † (Bishop: Apr 1685 to 26 Dec 1727)
• Jean-Guy Couture (Priest: 30 May 1953 to 21 Jun 1975)
• Maurice Couture, R.S.V. (Auxiliary Bishop: 17 Jul 1982 to 1 Dec 1988; Archbishop: 17 Mar 1990 to 15 Nov 2002)
• Pierre Denaut † (Coadjutor Bishop: 30 Sep 1794; Bishop: 1 Sep 1797 to 17 Jan 1806)
• Bruno Desrochers † (Priest: 30 Jun 1934 to 13 Jul 1951)
• William Dollard (Dullard) † (Priest: 12 Oct 1817 to 30 Sep 1842)
• Pierre-Herman Dosquet, P.S.S. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 26 Nov 1727; Coadjutor Bishop: 24 Jul 1730; Bishop: 12 Sep 1733 to 25 Jun 1739)
• Arthur Douville † (Priest: 25 May 1919 to 30 Nov 1939)
• Henri-Marie du Breuil de Pontbriand † (Bishop: 30 Nov 1740 to 8 Jun 1760)
• Louis-François Du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap. † (Coadjutor Bishop: 22 Jun 1713; Bishop: 26 Dec 1727 to 12 Sep 1733)
• Clément Fecteau (Priest: 16 Jun 1957; Auxiliary Bishop: 17 Jun 1989 to 10 May 1996)
• Louis Joseph Jean Marie Fortier † (Priest: 16 Jun 1944 to 15 Nov 1960)
• Pierre-André Fournier (Priest: 10 Jun 1967; Auxiliary Bishop: 11 Feb 2005)
• Jean Gagnon (Priest: 4 Jun 1966; Auxiliary Bishop: 4 Dec 1998 to 15 Nov 2002)
• Charles-Omer Garant † (Priest: 10 May 1923; Auxiliary Bishop: 27 Apr 1948 to 21 Oct 1962)
• Jean-François Hubert † (Priest: 20 Jul 1766; Coadjutor Bishop: 14 Jun 1785; Bishop: 12 Jun 1788 to 1 Sep 1797)
• Jean-Paul Labrie † (Priest: 20 May 1951; Auxiliary Bishop: 4 Apr 1977 to 19 May 1995)
• Jean-Pierre-François Laforce-Langevin † (Priest: 12 Sep 1844 to 15 Jan 1867)
• Joseph Alfred Langlois † (Priest: 25 May 1902; Auxiliary Bishop: 14 Jul 1924 to 10 Jul 1926)
• Jean-Jacques Lartigue, P.S.S. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 1 Feb 1820 to 13 May 1836)
• Bl. François de Laval de Montmorency † (Vicar Apostolic: 11 Apr 1658; Bishop: 1 Oct 1674 to 24 Jan 1688)
• Marc Leclerc † (Priest: 31 May 1958; Auxiliary Bishop: 17 Jul 1982 to 30 Jun 1998)
• Gilles Lemay (Priest: 18 Jun 1972; Auxiliary Bishop: 11 Feb 2005)
• Aeneas Bernard MacEachern † (Priest: 16 Feb 1787; Auxiliary Bishop: 12 Jan 1819 to 11 Aug 1829)
• Louis-Philippe-François Mariauchau d'Esglis † (Priest: 18 Sep 1734; Coadjutor Bishop: 22 Jan 1772; Bishop: 2 Dec 1784 to 4 Jun 1788)
• Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette (Priest: 8 Jun 1968; Auxiliary Bishop: 27 Feb 1987 to 17 Mar 1990)
• Laurent Noël (Auxiliary Bishop: 25 Jun 1963 to 8 Nov 1975)
• Marc Ouellet, P.S.S. (Archbishop: 15 Nov 2002 - )
• Bernard-Claude Panet † (Priest: 25 Oct 1778; Coadjutor Bishop: 12 Jul 1806; Coadjutor Archbishop: 12 Jan 1819; Archbishop: 4 Dec 1825 to 14 Feb 1833)
• Georges Léon Pelletier † (Auxiliary Bishop: 5 Dec 1942 to 26 Jul 1947)
• Joseph-Omer Plante † (Priest: 27 May 1893; Auxiliary Bishop: 23 Jun 1927 to 5 Apr 1948)
• Joseph-Octave Plessis † (Coadjutor Bishop: 26 Apr 1800; Bishop: 17 Jan 1806; Archbishop: 12 Jan 1819 to 4 Dec 1825)
• François-Louis Pourroy de L'Auberivière † (Bishop: 22 Mar 1739 to 20 Aug 1740)
• Joseph Norbert Provencher † (Coadjutor Bishop: 1 Feb 1820 to 16 Apr 1844)
• Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, O.P. † (Archbishop: 9 Jul 1926 to 31 May 1931)
• Maurice Roy † (Priest: 12 Jun 1927 to 22 Feb 1946; Archbishop: 2 Jun 1947 to 20 Mar 1981)
• Paul-Eugène Roy † (Priest: 13 Jun 1886; Auxiliary Bishop: 8 Apr 1908; Coadjutor Archbishop: 1 Jun 1920; Archbishop: 18 Jul 1925 to 20 Feb 1926)
• Joseph Signay † (Priest: 28 Mar 1802; Coadjutor Archbishop: 15 Dec 1826; Archbishop: 14 Feb 1833 to 3 Oct 1850)
• Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau † (Priest: 10 Sep 1842; Archbishop: 24 Dec 1870 to 12 Apr 1898)
• Eugène Tremblay (Priest: 24 Jun 1962; Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Nov 1994 to 3 May 2004)
• Pierre-Flavien Turgeon † (Priest: 29 Apr 1810; Coadjutor Archbishop: 28 Feb 1834; Archbishop: 3 Oct 1850 to 25 Aug 1867)
• Louis-Albert Vachon † (Priest: 11 Jun 1938; Auxiliary Bishop: 4 Apr 1977; Archbishop: 20 Mar 1981 to 17 Mar 1990)
• Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, O.M.I. † (Archbishop: 11 Dec 1931 to 17 Jan 1947)