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Archdiocese of Paris

*Archidioecesis Parisiensis*

*Archidiocèse de Paris*
Archdiocese of Paris; Archidioecesis Parisiensis; Archidiocèse de Paris
	Notre-Dame de Paris before the 2019 fire
	Coat of arms
Location
Country	France
Coordinates	48°51′12″N 2°20′57″E / 48.8533°N 2.34925°E
Statistics
Area	105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2021); 2,148,271; 1,304,700 (60.7%)
Parishes	106
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd century; (As Diocese of Paris); 1622; (As Archdiocese of Paris)
Cathedral	Notre-Dame de Paris
Patron saint	Saint Denis; Saint Genevieve
Secular priests	598 (Diocesan); 473 (Religious Orders); 133 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Laurent Ulrich
Metropolitan Archbishop	Laurent Ulrich
Suffragans	Créteil; Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes; Meaux; Nanterre; Pontoise; Saint-Denis; Versailles;
Auxiliary Bishops	Philippe Marsset; Emmanuel Tois;
Bishops emeritus	André Vingt-Trois; Michel Aupetit;
Map
Website
	paris.catholique.fr

The Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: Archidioecesis Parisiensis; French: Archidiocèse de Paris) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622. Before that date the bishops were suffragan to the archbishops of Sens.

History

Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. Denis^[1] and his companions, Sts. Rusticus and Eleutherius. Until the Revolution the ancient tradition of the Parisian Church commemorated the seven stations of St. Denis, the stages of his apostolate and martyrdom:

(1) the ancient monastery of Notre-Dame-des-Champs of which the crypt, it was said, had been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin by St. Denis on his arrival in Paris;
(2) the Church of St-Etienne-des-Grès (now disappeared), which stood on the site of an oratory erected by St. Denis to St. Stephen;^[2]
(3) the Church of St-Benoît (disappeared), where St. Denis had erected an oratory to the Trinity (Deus Benedictus);
(4) the chapel of St-Denis-du-Pas near Notre-Dame (disappeared), on the site of the tribunal of the prefect Sicinnius, who tried St. Denis;
(5) the Church of St-Denis-de-la-Châtre, the crypt of which was regarded as the saint's cell (now vanished);
(6) Montmartre, where, according to the chronicle written in 836 by Abbot Hilduin, St. Denis was executed;^[3]
(7) the Basilica of Saint-Denis.^[2]

Clovis founded, in honour of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a monastery to which the tomb of St. Genevieve drew numbers of the faithful, and in which St. Clotilde, who died at Tours, was buried.^[2]

To form a conception of Paris in the tenth and eleventh centuries, one must picture a network of churches and monasteries surrounded by cultivated farm-lands on the present site of Paris. From the beginning of the twelfth century, the monastic schools of Paris were already famous. The episcopate of Maurice de Sully (1160-96), the son of a simple serf, was marked by the consecration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.^[4]

The title of Duc de Saint-Cloud was created in 1674 for the archbishops.^[5]

Prior to 1790 the diocese was divided into three archdeaconries: France, Hurepoix, Brie.

Until the creation of new dioceses in 1966 there were two archdeaconries: Madeleine and St. Séverin.^[6] The reform reduced the diocese's size, losing the dioceses of Chartres, Orléans and Blois.^[7]

Present day

Its suffragan dioceses, created in 1966 and encompassing the Île-de-France region, are Créteil, Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, Meaux, Nanterre, Pontoise, Saint-Denis, and Versailles. Its liturgical centre is at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The archbishop resides on rue Barbet de Jouy in the 6th arrondissement, but there are diocesan offices in rue de la Ville-Eveque, rue St. Bernard and in other areas of the city. The archbishop is ordinary for Eastern Catholics (except Armenians and Ukrainians) in France.

The churches of the current diocese can be divided into several categories:

i) Latin Church parishes. These are grouped into deaneries and subject to vicars-general who often coincide with auxiliary bishops.
ii) Churches belonging to religious communities.
iii) Chapels for various foreign communities using various languages.
iv) Eastern-Church parishes and communities throughout France dependent on the Archbishop as Ordinary of the Ordinariate of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites.

Bishops of Paris

To 1000

?–c. 250: Denis (died c. 250), believed to be the first bishop of Paris^[8]
Mallon
Masse
Marcus
Adventus
c. 346: Victorinus
c. 360: Paulus
?–417?: Prudentius^[9]
360–436: Marcellus of Paris^[10]
???–??: Vivianus (Vivien)
???–??: Felix
???–??: Flavianus
???–??: Ursicianus
???–??: Apedinus
???–??: Heraclius (511 – c. 525?)
???–??: Probatius
533–545: Amelius
545–552: Saffarace
um 550: Eusebius I
550–576: Germanus
576–591: Ragnemod
um 592: Eusebius II
???–??: Faramonde
um 601: Simplicius
606–614: Ceraunus/Ceran^[11]
Gendulf
625–626: Leudébert (Léodebert)
?-650: Audobertus^[12]
650–661: Landericus (Landry)
661–663: Chrodobertus
???–??: Sigebrand († 664)
???–666: Importunus
666–680: Agilbert^[13]
690–692: Sigefroi
693–698: Turnoald
???–??: Adulphe
???–??: Bernechaire († 722)
722–730: Hugh of Champagne^[14]
???–??: Agilbert
???–??: Merseidus
???–??: Fédole
???–??: Ragnecapt
???–??: Radbert
???–??: Madalbert (Maubert)
757-775: Déodefroi^[14]
775–795: Eschenradus ^[15]
???–??: Ermanfroi (809?)
811–831: Inchad
831/2–857: Erchanrad II.
858–870: Aeneas^[16]
871–883: Ingelvin
884–886: Goslin
886–911: Anscharic (Chancellor 892, 894–896 and 900–910)
911–922: Theodulphe
922–926: Fulrad
927–c. 935: Adelhelme
937–941: Walter I., son of Raoul Tourte
c. 954: Constantius
950–977: Albert of Flanders
???–??: Garin
979–980: Rainald I. (Renaud)
984–989: Lisiard († 19. April 989)^[17]
991–992: Gislebert (Engelbert) († 992)
991–1017: Renaud of Vendôme

1000 to 1300

1061–1095: Godfrey
1096–1101: Guillaume de Montfort
1104–1116: Galo/Walo
1116–1123: Guibert
c. 1123–1141: Stephen of Senlis
c. 1143–1159: Theobald
1159–1160: Peter Lombard
1160–1196: Maurice de Sully
1196–1208: Odo de Sully
1208–1219: Pierre de La Chapelle (Peter of Nemours)
1220–1223: William of Seignelay, Guillaume de Seignelay^[18] (previously bishop of Auxerre)
1224–1227: Barthélmy
1228–1249: William of Auvergne
1249–1249: Walter de Château-Thierry (June to 23 September) (Gautier de Château-Thierry^[19])
1250–1268: Renaud Mignon de Corbeil
1268–1279: Étienne Tempier
1280–1280: Jean de Allodio (23 March 1280)
1280–1288: Renaud de Hombliéres
c. 1289: Adenolfus de Anagnia
1290–1304: Simon Matifort (Matifardi)