The Archdiocese of Québec (; ) is a

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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or

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of the

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, Canada. It is the oldest

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in the

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north of

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and the

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of Canada. The Archdiocese of Quebec is also the

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of an

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with the

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s of

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi ( , ) is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and ...

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and

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

. The archdiocese's cathedral is

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History

New France

From the beginning of

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of the

, the Church influenced the politics and policies of

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. Even during the first voyages of

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in the 16th century, missionary priests would accompany the

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on their voyages to the New World. After two failed attempts to settle in

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, in 1608,

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was founded by

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, giving the Church a solid base to spread the faith to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous populations. In 1615, the Recollet missionaries arrived in Québec, followed by the

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10 years later. Their presence would help drive the colonies, giving the colonizers a moral reason for their presence, as well as giving the Church an influential position in domestic and local policy. In 1658, the Church would establish an

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, 124 years since the first voyage of Jacques Cartier in 1534. The vicar apostolic was

François de Laval Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (; 30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Vicar of New France from 1658 to 1674 and as Bishop of Quebec from its creat ...

. As the vicar apostolic of Québec, Laval was a central member of the

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. Arguably, while he was charged with only the spiritual matters of New France, he had the most influence as he was the highest representative of the Church, as well as having excellent relations with

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. In 1663, Laval would establish the Seminary of Québec. In 1674, with the population of New France growing rapidly and the Seminary of Québec enrolling more students,

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elevated the apostolic vicariate to a

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, which would depend directly on the

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; this provision would later secure its permanence after

passed into the hands of

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in 1760. At its peak, in 1712, the Diocese of Québec covered the entire American continent to the Gulf of Mexico. Only the British colonies that would later become the United States and the Spanish colony of Florida were not under the authority of the Bishop of Quebec.

British rule

Under British rule, the peoples of Québec were discriminated against in respect of their Catholic faith and their language. Any person in the

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wanting to take a position had to take the Test Oath which denounced their faith. Because almost all the colonists were French-speaking Catholics, the Test Oath prevented the local population from participating in local politics. However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the

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that allowed Québec to restore the use of French customary law ("'") in private matters alongside the British common law system, and allowed the Church to collect tithes on Roman Catholics businesses and property. In 1819, the diocese was elevated to an

. By 1840, political leaders formally recognized the Church. The Archdiocese of Québec was split into new dioceses as the population increased.

Today

It lost large pieces of its territory with the formation of the Dioceses of Halifax and

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in 1817, the Diocese of

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in 1829, the Diocese of St. Boniface in 1844 and the Diocese of

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in 1852. It is common, but not inherent to the title, for the Archbishops of Québec to either be named to the cardinalate while serving or when transferred to a larger archdiocese or to a post in the

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. On 17 September 2024, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Jean-Marc Aveline as the

’s

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for the Archdiocese of Quebec’s 350th anniversary celebrations on September 20–22.

Primate of Canada

Since 24 January 1956, the Archbishop of Quebec has the ceremonial title of

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of Canada; the title was given to the reigning Archbishop of Quebec by

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Bishop's Palace and Chapel of Bishop's Palace

Built in 1693 to 1694 on order by

Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) was a French Catholic prelate who served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Quebec in the French colony of New France. Born in Grenoble, Fra ...

, the Chapel of Bishop's Palace was a private place of worship for the Bishop of Quebec and located within the residence (or Bishop's Palace). Following the British conquest the chapel was leased to Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec from 1777 to 1791 and successors

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and

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from 1791 to 1833. The chapel was demolished in 1831 to build a new addition where the two legislative houses met from 1834 to 1839. The new addition and bishop's residence would survive until it was demolished in 1852–1853. A new bishop's residence by Thomas Baillarge was built in 1844 to 1847 slight north. Preparing for the return of Parliament to Quebec City, a new parliamentary building was completed from 1853 to 1854 on Côte de la Montagne, but it burned down shortly after. Parliament relocated within the city to Quebec Music Hall and Quebec City Courthouse until capital rotated out again. Rebuilt by 1860 and served Parliament until 1866. The building was repurposed as Parliament of the new province of Quebec in 1867. A fire destroyed this building in 1883 and decision was made to relocate to the nearly complete new

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which had begun construction since 1877. The burned-out building was demolished by 1894. Today the old Parliament site is now home to

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Leadership

Ordinaries

Below is a list of individuals who have led the Archdiocese of Quebec and its antecedent jurisdictions since its founding.

Apostolic Vicars of New France

(1658–1674)

Bishops of Québec

(1674–1688) *

Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) was a French Catholic prelate who served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Quebec in the French colony of New France. Born in Grenoble, Fra ...

(1688–1727) *

Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay (September 20, 1663 – November 28, 1741) was bishop of the diocese of Quebec from 1727 to 1733, although he never went to Canada. From a noble family, he joined the Capuchins. Appointed Vicar-General for Loui ...

(1727–1733) *

Pierre-Herman Dosquet Pierre-Herman Dosquet (4 March 1691 – 4 March 1777) was the fourth bishop of Quebec. Life Pierre-Herman Dosquet was born in Liège, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the son of Laurent and Anne-Jeanne Goffar. His father was a merchant. In 1715, Dosqu ...

(1733–1739) * François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière (1739–1740) *

Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand Henri-Marie Dubreuil de Pontbriand ( c. January 1708 – 8 June 1760) was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quebec. Biography Pontbriand was from a titled family and grew up at the Pontbriand Château (now in Ille-et-Vilaine), ...

(1741–1760) *

Jean-Olivier Briand Jean-Olivier Briand (January 23, 1715 – June 25, 1794) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Quebec from 1766 to 1784. Life Jean-Olivier Briand was born at Plérin, Brittany on January 23, 1715. He studied at the Seminary of St. Brie ...

(1766–1784) * Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly (1784–1788) * Jean-François Hubert (1788–1797) * Pierre Denaut (1797–1806) *

Joseph-Octave Plessis Joseph-Octave Plessis (March 3, 1763 – December 4, 1825) was a Canadians, Canadian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to ...

(1806–1819)

Archbishops of Québec

(1819–1825) * Bernard-Claude Panet (1825–1833) *

Joseph Signay Joseph Signay (8 November 1778 – 3 October 1850) 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 appoint ...

(1833–1850) *

Pierre-Flavien Turgeon Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (November 13, 1787, in Quebec City, Quebec – August 25, 1867, in Quebec City) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec for 17 years. Life Pierre-Flavien Turgeon was born in Québec on November 13 ...

(1850–1867) * Charles-François Baillargeon (1867–1870) * Cardinal

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (; February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the ...

(1870–1898) * Cardinal Louis Nazaire Bégin (1898–1925) *

Paul-Eugène Roy Paul-Eugène Roy (8 November 1859 – 20 February 1926) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec. External links * Catholic-Hierarchy entry* 1859 births 1926 deaths Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec 20th- ...

(1925–1926) * Cardinal

Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau (April 6, 1866 – May 30, 1931) 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 One of e ...

(1926–1931) * Cardinal Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (1931–1947) * Cardinal

Maurice Roy Maurice Roy (January 25, 1905 – October 24, 1985) was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Early life Roy was born in Quebec City as one of thre ...

(1947–1981) * Cardinal Louis-Albert Vachon (1981–1990) * Maurice Couture (1990–2002) * Cardinal

Marc Ouellet Marc Armand Ouellet (; born 8 June 1944) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023. He is a member of the Sulpicians. Ouell ...

(2002–2010), appointed Prefect of the

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* Cardinal Gérald Lacroix (2011–present)

Coadjutor archbishops

Under the

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, the

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has the right of succession (''cum jure successionis'') upon the death, retirement or resignation of the diocesan bishop he is assisting. All coadjutor ordinaries except for

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eventually succeeded to become head of the Archdiocese of Quebec or its antecedent jurisdictions. *

(1713–1727), as coadjutor bishop *

(1729–1733), as coadjutor bishop * Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly (1772–1784), as coadjutor bishop * Jean-François Hubert (1785–1788), as coadjutor bishop *

(1788–1794), as coadjutor bishop; did not succeed to the see * Pierre Denaut (1794–1797), as coadjutor bishop *

(1800–1806), as coadjutor bishop * Bernard-Claude Panet (1806–1825) *

(1826–1833) *

(1834–1850) * Charles-François Baillargeon (1851–1867) * Louis Nazaire Bégin (1892–1898); future Cardinal *

(1920–1925)

Auxiliary bishops

Unlike coadjutors,

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s do not have the right of succession, per canon 975, §1 of the

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. Four auxiliaries went on to become Archbishop of Quebec. *

(1727–1729), appointed coadjutor of this archdiocese * Aeneas Bernard MacEachern (1819–1821), appointed Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island *

Jean-Jacques Lartigue Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., (20 June 1777 – 19 April 1840) was a Canadians, Canadian Society of Saint-Sulpice, Sulpician, who served as the first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal, Catholic Bishop of Montreal. Early life Lartigue wa ...

(1820–1836), appointed Bishop of Montréal, Québec * Pierre-Antoine Tabeau (1834); did not take effect * Joseph Norbert Provencher (1820–1844), appointed Vicar Apostolic of North-West (Nord-Ouest) *

(1908–1920), appointed coadjutor of this archdiocese * Joseph Alfred Langlois (1924–1926), appointed Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec * Joseph-Omer Plante (1927–1948) * Georges Léon Pelletier (1942–1947), appointed Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Québec * Charles-Omer Garant (1948–1962) * Lionel Audet (1952–1983) * Laurent Noël (1963–1975) (Apostolic Administrator of Hauterive, Québec, 1974–1975), appointed Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Québec * Louis-Albert Vachon (1977–1981), appointed Archbishop of this archdiocese; future Cardinal * Jean-Paul Labrie (1977–1995) * Maurice Couture (1982–1988), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec; later returned to this archdiocese as Archbishop * Marc Leclerc (1982–1998) * Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette (1987–1990), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec *

Clément Fecteau Joseph Georges Émile Clément Fecteau (20 April 1933 – 31 December 2017) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. Fecteau was born in Sainte-Marie, Quebec and was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He subsequently served as an auxiliary bisho ...

(1989–1996), appointed Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec * Eugène Tremblay (1994–2004), appointed Bishop of Amos, Québec *

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(1994–2008), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec * Jean Gagnon (1998–2002), appointed Bishop of Gaspé, Québec * Pierre-André Fournier (2005–2008), appointed Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec * Gilles Lemay (2005–2011), appointed Bishop of Amos, Québec * Gérald Lacroix (2009–2011), appointed Archbishop of this archdiocese; future Cardinal * Paul Lortie (2009–2012), appointed Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec * Denis Grondin (2011–2015), appointed Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec * Louis Corriveau (2016–2019), appointed Bishop of Joliette, Québec * Martin Laliberté (2019–2022) * Marc Pelchat (2016–2025)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Thomas Maguire, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia in 1819; did not take effect *

Rémi Gaulin Rémi Gaulin (30 June 1787 – 8 May 1857) was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop who spent time in the service of Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis. Plessis ordained Gaulin in 1811 and appointed him curate to Alexander MacDonell in Upper Canada. ...

, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Kingston, Ontario in 1833 * Michael Power, appointed Bishop of Toronto, Ontario in 1841 * William Dollard (Dullard), appointed Bishop of New Brunswick in 1842 * Francis Xavier Norbert Blanchet, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Oregon Territory, USA in 1843 * John Charles Prince, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal, Québec in 1844 *

Augustin Magloire Alexandre Blanchet Augustin Magloire Alexandre Blanchet (22 August 1797 – 25 February 1887) was a French Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the now-defunct Diocese of Walla Walla and of the Diocese of Nesqually in pr ...

, appointed Bishop of Walla Walla, Oregon, USA in 1846 * Joseph La Rocque, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal, Québec in 1852 * Charles LaRocque, appointed Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec in 1866 * Jean-Pierre-François Laforce Langevin, appointed Bishop of Rimouski (St. Germain of), Québec in 1867 *

Olivier Elzéar Mathieu Olivier Elzéar Mathieu (24 December 1853 – 26 October 1929) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and Archbishop of Regina. Biography Born in Saint-Roch (Quebec City), the son of Joseph Mathieu and Marguerite Latouche, he studi ...

, appointed Bishop of Regina, Saskatchewan in 1911 *

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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec in 1939 * Bruno Desrochers, appointed Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec in 1951 *

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, appointed titular Archbishop in 1952 * Louis Joseph Jean Marie Fortier, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec in 1960 * Jean-Guy Couture, appointed Bishop of Hauterive, Québec in 1975 *

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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 2008

Recent appointments

On February 22, 2011,

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(VIS) and

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(CNS), announced that

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had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gérald Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada. As archbishop, he succeeds

, his former superior, who became the prefect of one of the Roman Curia's most important administrative departments, the Sacred

, in July 2010. Lacroix is a member of the Quebec-based Saint Pope Pius X Secular Institute. Lacroix was born in

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, on July 27, 1957, the eldest son in a family of seven children. At the age of 8, his family settled in

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, largest city of

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(in the U.S.), where he attended the parochial elementary school of

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and

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. He studied one year at

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in neighboring Goffstown. He joined the Pius X Secular Institute as a consecrated lay member in 1975, and made perpetual vows in 1982. The same year, he was named secretary general of the institute. He earned a master's degree in

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, and from 1985 to 1987, directed the La Maison du Renouveau, a formation and Christian renewal centre. He was ordained a priest on October 8, 1988, in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance. He was ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec on May 24, 2009. On December 12, 2011, Pope Benedict appointed Gaetan Proulx and Denis Grondin Jr. as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Quebec to serve under Lacroix. They were ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishops of Quebec on February 25, 2012. On May 4, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Grondin as Archbishop of Rimouski. On July 2, 2016, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Proulx as Bishop of Gaspé. On October 25, 2016, the same pope appointed Louis Corriveau and Marc Pelchat as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese. In 2019, he transferred Bishop Corriveau to a diocesan post elsewhere, and on November 25 appointed Martin Laliberté, P.M.E. as auxiliary here.

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* * * * Voisine, Nive. Histoire Du Catholicisme Québécois. Montréal, Montreal: Boréal Express, Boreal express, 1984. {{Authority control Organizations based in Quebec City