Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montréal is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Quebec.

Cathedrals

The current cathedral of the Archdiocese of Montréal is the Cathedral Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World and St. James the Greater, built in 1894.
Prior to that, the diocese had five cathedrals.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,724,357 Catholics on 947 km² in 170 parishes and 35 missions with 901 priests, 87 deacons, 3,817 lay religious and 16 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Montréal's province has as suffragan sees:

Ordinaries

Below is a list of individuals who have led the Archdiocese of Montreal and its antecedent jurisdictions since its founding.

Bishops of Montreal

Under the Code of Canon Law, the coadjutor bishop has the right of succession upon the death, retirement or resignation of the diocesan bishop he is assisting. All coadjutor ordinaries except for John Charles Prince eventually succeeded to become head of the Archdiocese of Montreal or its antecedent jurisdictions.
  1. # Coadjutor Bishop: Joseph Larocque
  2. # Coadjutor Bishop: John Charles Prince
  3. # Coadjutor Bishop: Ignace Bourget
  4. # Auxiliary Bishop Alain Faubert, Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati
  5. # Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd, Titular Bishop of Treba
  6. # Auxiliary Bishop: Christian Lépine
  7. # Auxiliary Bishop: André Gazaille
  8. # Auxiliary Bishop: Lionel Gendron, P.S.S.
  9. # Auxiliary Bishop: Anthony Mancini
  10. # Auxiliary Bishop: Louis Dicaire
  11. # Auxiliary Bishop: André Rivest
  12. # Auxiliary Bishop: Neil E. Willard
  13. # Auxiliary Bishop: Jean-Claude Turcotte
  14. # Auxiliary Bishop: Jude Saint-Antoine
  15. # Auxiliary Bishop: Gérard Tremblay, P.S.S.
  16. # Auxiliary Bishop: Jean-Marie Lafontaine
  17. # Auxiliary Bishop: Leonard James Crowley
  18. # Auxiliary Bishop: Norman Joseph Gallagher
  19. # Auxiliary Bishop: Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M.
  20. # Auxiliary Bishop: Paul Grégoire
  21. # Auxiliary Bishop: Léo Blais
  22. # Auxiliary Bishop: Valérien Bélanger
  23. # Auxiliary Bishop: Laurent Morin
  24. # Auxiliary Bishop: Lawrence-Patrick Whelan
  25. # Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph-Conrad Chaumont
  26. # Auxiliary Bishop: Alphonse-Emmanuel Deschamps
  27. # Auxiliary Bishop: Georges Gauthier
  28. # Auxiliary Bishop: François-Théophile-Zotique Racicot (1905.01.14 – 1915.09.14

    Other priests of this diocese who became bishops