Archdiocese of Paris
Parisien(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Paris, France
The Archdiocese of Paris is the metropolitan Latin Catholic see of the French capital, traditionally founded in the third century and elevated to an archdiocese in 1622. It is led by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich since 2022 and heads an ecclesiastical province of seven suffragan dioceses including Créteil, Nanterre, and Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1622
- Latin
- Parisien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Denis and Saint Genevieve
- Annuario code
- 001002546
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,304,700
- Population
- 2,148,271
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 60.7%
- Priests
- 598
- Catholics per priest
- 2,182
- Extent
- 105 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12,426
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Laurent Ulrich
- Born
- 7 September 1951
- Birthplace
- Dijon
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Notre-Dame de Paris stands in Paris, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Paris
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CréteilCréteil
- Diocese of MeauxMeaux
- Diocese of NanterreNanterre
- Diocese of PontoisePontoise
- Diocese of Saint-DenisSaint-Denis
- Diocese of VersaillesVersailles
- Diocese of Évry–Corbeil-EssonnesÉvry–Corbeil-Essonnes
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Among the twenty-three archdioceses of France stands the Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: Archidioecesis Parisiensis; French: Archidiocèse de Paris), a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. Tradition holds that St. Denis founded the original diocese in the 3rd century, its bounds matching the Civitas Parisiorum. For centuries its bishops were suffragan to the archbishops of Sens, until the see was raised to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.