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Country
  
Canada

Metropolitan
  
Montréal, Quebec

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Province
  
Québec

Territory
  
Montréal and environs

Population - Catholics
  
1,600,000 (67.9%)

Area
  
1,399 km²

Phone
  
+1 514-925-4300

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal

Ecclesiastical province
  
Archdiocese of Montréal

Address
  
2000 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H3H 1G4, Canada

Hours
  
Closing soon · 9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PMSuggest an edit

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Profiles

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montréal (Latin: Archdioecesis Marianopolitana) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Quebec. The Archbishop of Montréal is Metropolitan of a province that includes the suffragan dioceses of Joliette, Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Saint-Jérôme, and Valleyfield.

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Cathedrals

The current cathedral of the Archdiocese of Montréal is the Cathedral Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World and St. James the Greater (Basilique cathédrale de Marie-Reine-du-Monde et de Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur), built in 1894.

Prior to that, the diocese had five cathedrals. (From 1821 to 1836, they were the seat of the auxiliary bishop of Quebec in Montréal.)

  • Notre-Dame Church (ancestor of today's Notre-Dame Basilica), 1821–1822
  • Chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 1822–1825
  • Cathédrale Saint-Jacques, 1825–1852 (destroyed by fire, now part of the Judith-Jasmin pavilion of UQAM)
  • the chapel of the Asile de la Providence (corner of Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Hubert, site of the present Esplanade Émilie-Gamelin), 1852–1855
  • a small chapel at the site of the present archdiocese building, 1855–1894
  • Diocesan bishops

    The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops of Montréal and their tenure of service:

    1. Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue (1821–1840) - as auxiliary Bishop of Quebec in Montréal (1821-1836), then Bishop of Montréal.
    2. Bishop Ignace Bourget (1840–1876)
    3. Archbishop Édouard-Charles Fabre (1876–1896) - as Archbishop of Montréal from 1886.
    4. Archbishop Paul Bruchési (1897–1939) [1]
    5. Archbishop Georges Gauthier (1939–1940)
    6. Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau (1940–1950) [2]
    7. Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, Archbishop (1950–1968)
    8. Cardinal Paul Grégoire, Archbishop (1968–1990)
    9. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, Archbishop (1990–2012)
    10. Archbishop Christian Lépine (since 2012)

    References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal Wikipedia


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