title: List of Catholic dioceses in France in the 19th and 20th centuries
text: In 1790, Pope Pius VI entirely revised the ecclesiastical map of France to fit the new administrative map: dioceses were now to coincide with departments (the new administrative units), and consequently all Ancien Régime dioceses disappeared. Many former bishoprics remained heads of the new dioceses, but many cities lost their bishop. But the papacy did not accept those changes, and for more than a decade, the new French ecclesiastical hierarchy was technically in schism with Rome.
  
  In 1801, following the Concordate First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte signed with Pope Pius VI, a compromise was found, but it was not before the late 1810s that a stable ecclesiastical organisation was reached, in which one diocese was more or less coterminous with one department. A few exceptions were retained, especially in departments where there was a particularly numerous population.
  
  In December 2002, Pope John Paul II completely redrew the map of French ecclesiastical provinces: for this, see the post-2002 List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France.
  
  The following is a list of French ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses from 1825 to 2002. Except where stated, one diocese coincided with one department.
  
  Province of Aix 
  Archdiocese of Aix = Bouches-du-Rhône, minus the arrondissement of Marseille
  Diocese of Ajaccio = Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud
  Diocese of Digne = Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
  Diocese of Fréjus = Var
  Diocese of Gap = Hautes-Alpes
  Diocese of Nice = Alpes-Maritimes
  
  Province of Albi 
  Archdiocese of Albi = Tarn
  Diocese of Cahors = Lot
  Diocese of Mende = Lozère
  Diocese of Perpignan = Pyrénées-Orientales
  Diocese of Rodez = Aveyron
  
  Province of Auch 
  Archdiocese of Auch = Gers
  Diocese of Aire-et-Dax = Landes
  Diocese of Bayonne = Pyrénées-Atlantiques
  Diocese of Tarbes, renamed as Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes in 1912 = Hautes-Pyrénées
  
  Province of Avignon 
  Archdiocese of Avignon = Vaucluse
  Diocese of Montpellier = Hérault
  Diocese of Nîmes = Gard
  Diocese of Valence = Drôme
  Diocese of Viviers = Ardèche
  
  Province of Besançon 
  Archdiocese of Besançon = originally Doubs
  Diocese of Belfort-Montbéliard, detached from Besançon in 1979 = Territoire de Belfort and arrondissement of Montbéliard in the département of the Doubs
  Diocese of Nancy = originally Meurthe; after 1871, Meurthe-et-Moselle
  Diocese of Saint-Claude = Jura
  Diocese of Saint-Dié = Vosges
  Diocese of Verdun = Meuse
  
  Province of Bordeaux 
  Archdiocese of Bordeaux = Gironde
  Diocese of Agen = Lot-et-Garonne
  Diocese of Angoulême = Charente
  Diocese of La Rochelle = Charente-Maritime
  Diocese of Luçon = Vendée
  Diocese of Périgueux = Dordogne
  Diocese of Poitiers = Vienne and Deux-Sèvres
  
  Province of Bourges 
  Archdiocese of Bourges = Cher and Indre
  Diocese of Blois = Loir-et-Cher
  Diocese of Chartres = Eure-et-Loir
  Diocese of Clermont = Puy-de-Dôme
  Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay = Haute-Loire
  Diocese of Limoges = Haute-Vienne and Creuse
  Diocese of Orléans = Loiret
  Diocese of Saint-Flour = Cantal
  Diocese of Tulle = Corrèze
  
  Province of Cambrai 
  Archdiocese of Cambrai = originally Nord
  Diocese of Lille, detached from Cambrai in 1913 = arrondissements of Lille and Dunkerque
  Diocese of Arras = Pas-de-Calais
  
  Province of Chambéry 
  Archdiocese of Chambéry, Maurienne, and Tarentaise = Savoie
  Diocese of Annecy = Haute-Savoie
  
  Province of Lyon 
  Archdiocese of Lyon = originally Rhône and Loire
  Diocese of Saint-Étienne, detached from Lyon in 1970 = Loire, minus the arrondissement of Roanne
  Diocese of Autun = Saône-et-Loire
  Diocese of Belley, renamed as Belley-Ars in 1888 = Ain
  Diocese of Dijon = Côte-d'Or
  Diocese of Grenoble = Isère
  Diocese of Langres = Haute-Marne
  
  Province of Paris 
  Archdiocese of Paris = Originally, département of the Seine, now only the City-département of Paris
  Diocese of Créteil, detached from Paris in 1966 = Val-de-Marne
  Diocese of Nanterre, detached from Paris in 1966 = Hauts-de-Seine
  Diocese of Saint-Denis-en-France, detached from Paris in 1966 = Seine-Saint-Denis
  Diocese of Versailles = Yvelines
  Diocese of Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes, detached from Versailles in 1965 = Essonne
  Diocese of Pontoise, detached from Versailles in 1966 = Val-d'Oise
  Diocese of Meaux = Seine-et-Marne
  
  Province of Reims 
  Archdiocese of Reims = département of the Ardennes and arrondissement of Reims in the département of the Marne
  Diocese of Amiens = Somme
  Diocese of Beauvais = Oise
  Diocese of Châlons-en-Champagne = Marne, minus the arrondissement of Reims
  Diocese of Soissons = Aisne
  
  Province of Rennes 
  (detached from Tours in 1859)
  Archdiocese of Rennes = Ille-et-Vilaine
  Diocese of Quimper = Finistère
  Diocese of Saint-Brieuc = Côtes-d'Armor
  Diocese of Vannes = Morbihan
  
  Province of Rouen 
  Archdiocese of Rouen = originally the whole of Seine-Maritime
  Diocese of Le Havre, detached from Rouen in 1974 = arrondissement of Le Havre in Seine-Maritime
  Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux = Calvados
  Diocese of Coutances and Avranches = Manche
  Diocese of Évreux = Eure
  Diocese of Sées = Orne
  
  Province of Sens 
   Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre = Yonne
   Diocese of Moulins = Allier
   Diocese of Nevers = Nièvre
   Diocese of Troyes = Aube
  
  Province of Toulouse 
  Archdiocese of Toulouse = Haute-Garonne
  Diocese of Montauban = Tarn-et-Garonne
  Diocese of Pamiers = Ariège
  Diocese of Carcassonne = Aude
  
  Province of Tours 
   Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours = Indre-et-Loire
   Diocese of Angers = Maine-et-Loire
   Diocese of Le Mans = originally Sarthe and Mayenne
  Diocese of Laval, detached from Le Mans in 1855 = Mayenne
   Diocese of Nantes = Loire-Atlantique
  
  Under the direct authority of the Holy See 
  Diocese of Marseille = arrondissement of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône département
  Diocese of Metz = Moselle
  Diocese of Strasbourg = Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin
  
  Overseas ecclesiastical provinces
  
  Antilles-Guyane 
  (province created in 1867)
  Archdiocese of Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre, created in 1850 = Martinique
  Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre, created in 1850 = Guadeloupe
  Diocese of Cayenne, created in 1956 = French Guiana
  
  Under the direct authority of the Holy See 
  Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, created in 1850 = Réunion
  
  Papeete 
  (province created in 1966)
  Archdiocese of Papeete, created in 1966 = French Polynesia, minus the Marquesas Islands
  Diocese of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, created in 1966 = Marquesas Islands
  
  Nouméa 
  (province created in 1966)
  Archdiocese of Nouméa, created in 1966 = New Caledonia
  Diocese of Wallis-et-Futuna, created in 1966 = Wallis-et-Futuna
  
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