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List of Catholic dioceses in France in the 19th and 20th centuries

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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

Province of Albi

Province of Auch

Province of Avignon

Province of Besançon

Province of Bordeaux

Province of Bourges

Province of Cambrai

Province of Chambéry

  • Archdiocese of Chambéry, Maurienne, and Tarentaise = Savoie
  • Diocese of Annecy = Haute-Savoie

Province of Lyon

Province of Paris

  • Archdiocese of Paris = Originally, département of the Seine, now only the City-département of Paris
  • 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)

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

Province of Toulouse

Province of Tours

Under the direct authority of the Holy See

Overseas ecclesiastical provinces

Antilles-Guyane

(province created in 1867)

Under the direct authority of the Holy See

Papeete

(province created in 1966)

Nouméa

(province created in 1966)

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