The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille (

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: ''Archidioecesis Insulensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lille'') is an

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of the

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of the

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. Its

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episcopal see is a Marian

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: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de la Treille, in

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

, Nord, Hauts-de-France.

History

Erected on 25 October 1913 originally as the Diocese of Lille, a

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of the Metropolitan

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, on territory split off from the then Metropolitan

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, it encompasses the

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Dunkerque Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

, within the

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in the

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. It was elevated to a

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on March 29, 2008.

Province

Its

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comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and two suffragan sees : * its formerly Metropolitan mother the

* the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Atrebatensis (–Bononiena–Audomarensis)''; French: ''Diocèse d'Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer)'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Ordinaries

;Bishops of Lille *

Alexis-Armand Charost Alexis-Armand Charost (14 November 1860 – 7 November 1930) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rennes from 1921 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922. Biography Alexis Charost ...

(21 November 1913 – 18 June 1920) * Hector-Raphaël Quilliet (18 June 1920 – retired 23 March 1928) * Achille Liénart (6 October 1928 – 7 March 1968) * Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand (7 March 1968 – retired 13 August 1983) *

Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet (8 April 1922 – 23 January 2013) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Vilnet was born in Chaumont and was ordained a priest on 22 October 1944. Vilnet was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint-D ...

(13 August 1983 – retired 2 July 1998) *

Gérard Defois Gérard Denis Auguste Defois (born 5 January 1931) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was the ordinary of a series of French dioceses from 1990 until his retirement in 2008. He was Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre from 1990 to 1995, Archbis ...

(2 July 1998 – retired 1 February 2008) * Laurent Ulrich (2008.02.01 – 2008.03.29)Ulrich had formerly been Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (France) (2000.06.06 – 2002.12.08), demoted Archbishop of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (2002.12.08 – 2008.02.01), Vice-President of Bishops’ Conference of France (2007.11.05 – 2013.06.30) ;Metropolitan Archbishops of Lille *

Laurent Ulrich Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich (born 7 September 1951) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who became Archbishop of Paris in May 2022. Ulrich has been a bishop since 2000 and was Archbishop of Lille from 2008 to 2022. He was vice president ...

(29 March 2008 – 26 April 2022)

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External links

* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919''
retrieved: 2016-12-24.
Official Website

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