Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montréal (Latin: Archdioecesis Marianopolitana) is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Quebec.

For the Anglican Diocese of Montreal see, see Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
Archdiocese of Montréal

Archidioecesis Marianopolitanus

Archidiocèse de Montréal
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
Location
CountryCanada
TerritoryMontréal and environs
Ecclesiastical provinceArchdiocese of Montréal
MetropolitanMontréal, Quebec
Population
- Catholics
1,600,000 (67.9%)
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedMay 13, 1836
CathedralMary, Queen of the World Cathedral
Patron saintSt. Mary
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopChristian Lépine Archbishop of Montréal
Auxiliary BishopsThomas Dowd, Alain Faubert
Website
diocesemontreal.org

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[1]

History
  • 1836.05.13: Established as Diocese of Montréal / Marianopolitan(us) (Latin), on territory split off from Archdiocese of Québec
  • Lost territory 1852.06.08 to establish Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe
  • 1886.06.08: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Montréal / Marianopolitan(us) (Latin)
  • Lost territories repeatedly : on 1892.04.05 to establish as suffragan Diocese of Valleyfield, on 1904.01.27 to establish as suffragan Diocese of Joliette, on 1933.06.09 to establish as suffragan Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Québec, on 1951.06.23 to establish as suffragan Diocese of Saint-Jérôme

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,724,357 Catholics (72.3% of 2,386,038 total) on 947 km² in 170 parishes and 35 missions with 901 priests (377 diocesan, 524 religious), 87 deacons, 3,817 lay religious (741 brothers, 3,076 sisters) and 16 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Montréal's province has as suffragan sees:

Bishops

(all Roman rite)

BIOS TO ELABORATE
Suffragan Bishops of Montréal
  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 (1876.05.11 – 1886.06.08 see below) .
Metropolitan Archbishops of Montréal
  1. Archbishop Édouard-Charles Fabre ('see above 1886.06.08 – 1896.12.30) .
  2. Archbishop Paul Bruchési (1897–1939)
  3. Archbishop Georges Gauthier (1939–1940)
  4. Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau (1940–1950)
  5. Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, Archbishop (1950–1968)
  6. Cardinal Paul Grégoire, Archbishop (1968–1990)
  7. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, Archbishop (1990–2012)
  8. Archbishop Christian Lépine (2012.03.20 – ...))
    1. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd (2011.07.11 – ...), Titular Bishop of Treba
    2. Auxiliary Bishop Alain Faubert (2016.04.19 – ...), Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati

Coadjutor bishops

Auxiliary episcopate
BIOS TO ELABORATE & WORK-IN
    1. Coadjutor Bishop: Joseph Larocque (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22)
    2. Coadjutor Bishop: John Charles Prince (1844.07.05 – 1852.06.08)
    3. Coadjutor Bishop: Ignace Bourget (later Archbishop) (1837.03.10 – 1840.04.19)
    4. Auxiliary Bishop: Christian Lépine (later Archbishop) (2011.07.11 – 2012.03.20)
    5. Auxiliary Bishop: André Gazaille (2006.02.11 – 2011.07.11)
    6. Auxiliary Bishop: Lionel Gendron, P.S.S. (2006.02.11 – 2010.10.28)
    7. Auxiliary Bishop: Anthony Mancini (later Archbishop) (1999.02.18 – 2007.10.18)
    8. Auxiliary Bishop: Louis Dicaire (1999.02.18 – 2004.06.19)
    9. Auxiliary Bishop: André Rivest (1995.06.27 – 2004.06.19)
    10. Auxiliary Bishop: Neil E. Willard (1995.06.27 – 1998.03.25)
    11. Auxiliary Bishop: Jean-Claude Turcotte (later Archbishop and Cardinal) (1982.04.14 – 1990.03.17)
    12. Auxiliary Bishop: Jude Saint-Antoine (1981.03.20 – 2006.02.11)
    13. Auxiliary Bishop: Gérard Tremblay, P.S.S. (1981.03.20 – 1991.08.27)
    14. Auxiliary Bishop: Jean-Marie Lafontaine (1979.04.18 – 1981.06.03)
    15. Auxiliary Bishop: Leonard James Crowley (1971.02.08 – 1997.03.26)
    16. Auxiliary Bishop: Norman Joseph Gallagher (1966 – 1970.04.16)
    17. Auxiliary Bishop: Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. (1964.06.05 – 1996.04.25)
    18. Auxiliary Bishop: Paul Grégoire (later Archbishop and Cardinal) (1961.10.26 – 1968.04.20)
    19. Auxiliary Bishop: Léo Blais (1959.03.18 – 1971.05.11)
    20. Auxiliary Bishop: Valérien Bélanger (1956.03.16 – 1983.02.19)
    21. Auxiliary Bishop: Laurent Morin (1955.09.08 – 1959.02.28)
    22. Auxiliary Bishop: Lawrence-Patrick Whelan (1941.06.28 – 1980.10.04)
    23. Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph-Conrad Chaumont (1941.06.28 – 1966.10.08)
    24. Auxiliary Bishop: Alphonse-Emmanuel Deschamps (1925.02.20 – 1940.06.23)
    25. Auxiliary Bishop: Georges Gauthier (later Archbishop) (1912.06.28 – 1923.04.05)
    26. Auxiliary Bishop: François-Théophile-Zotique Racicot (1905.01.14 – 1915.09.14

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
  • Charles-François-Calixte Morisson, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1862 (resigned from episcopate)
  • Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, appointed Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, in 1875; beatified in 1987
  • Narcisse Zéphirin Lorrain, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Pontiac, Ontario in 1882
  • Richard Alphonsus O’Connor, appointed Bishop of Peteborough, Ontario in 1889
  • Joseph-Médard Émard, appointed Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec in 1892
  • Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes, appointed Bishop of Joliette, Québec in 1913
  • Peter Joseph Monahan, appointed Bishop of Calgary, Alberta in 1932
  • Émilien Frenette, appointed Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec in 1951
  • Alexander Carter, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 1956
  • William Edward Power, appointed Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia in 1960
  • Gerald Emmett Carter, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario in 1961; future Cardinal
  • Charles-Omer Valois, appointed Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec in 1977
  • Robert Harris, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 2002
  • Paul Terrio (priest here, 1970-2001), appointed Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta in 2012

See also

References
  1. "Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde: Historique". Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde Web site. Archived from the original on 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2009-11-17.

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