Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montréal (Latin: Archdioecesis Marianopolitanus) 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. It is currently led by Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, with the assistance of Auxiliary Bishops Christian Lépine and Thomas Dowd (bishop).

As of 2004, the archdiocese contains 219 parishes, 584 active diocesan priests, 699 religious priests, and 1,600,000 Catholics. It also has 4,702 Women Religious, 1,179 Religious Brothers, and 103 permanent deacons.

Cathedrals

The current cathedral of the Archdiocese of Montreal 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 cathedral churches:

• 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]

Residential bishops

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

1. Jean-Jacques Lartigue (1821–1840) - as Bishop of Montreal
2. Ignace Bourget (1840–1876)
3. Édouard-Charles Fabre (1876–1896) - as Archbishop of Montreal
4. Paul Bruchési (1897–1939) [1]
5. Georges Gauthier (1939–1940)
6. Joseph Charbonneau (1940–1950) [2]
7. Paul-Émile Léger (1950–1968)
8. Paul Grégoire (1968–1990)
9. Jean-Claude Turcotte (1990–present)

References

• Archdiocese of Montreal page at catholichierarchy.org retrieved July 13, 2006

1. ^ "Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde: Historique" (HTML). Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde Web site. http://cathedrale-mrdm.blogspot.com/search/label/Historique. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 

External links

• Diocèse de Montréal