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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montpellier

Archdiocese of Montpellier - Lodève - Béziers - Agde - Saint-Pons-de-Thomières
Archidioecesis Montis Pessulani-Lotevensis-Biterrensis-Agathensis-Sancti Pontii Thomeriarum
Archidiocèse de Montpellier - Lodève - Béziers - Agde - Saint-Pons-de-Thomières
Catedral de Sant Pere (Montpeller) - Porta i façana principals.jpg
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Montpellier
Statistics
Area 6,101 km2 (2,356 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
1,000,000
670,000 (67%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established Elevated: 8 December 2002
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of St Peter in Montpellier
Patron saint Saint Peter
Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Pierre-Marie Carré
Suffragans Diocese of Carcassonne-Narbonne
Diocese of Mende
Diocese of Nîmes
Diocese of Perpignan-Elne
Auxiliary Bishops Claude-Joseph Azéma
Emeritus Bishops Guy Marie Alexandre Thomazeau Archbishop Emeritus (2002-2011)
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montpellier is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in south-western France. It was probably created in the 3rd century AD. The current Archbishop is Pierre-Marie Carré; the immediate past Archbishop Emeritus is Guy Marie Alexandre Thomazeau. On September 16, 2002, as part of the reshuffling of the map of the French ecclesiastical provinces, the diocese of Montpellier (Lodève, Béziers, Agde, and Saint-Pons-de-Thomières) ceased to be a suffragan of Avignon and was elevated to archdiocese and metropolitan of a new ecclesiastical province, with the dioceses of Carcassonne, Mende, Nimes (Uzès and Alès) and Perpignan-Elne as suffragans.

When the Concordat of 1802 reestablished this diocese, it accorded to it also the département of Tarn, which was detached from it in 1822 by the creation of the Archdiocese of Albi; and from 1802 to 1822, Montpellier was a suffragan of Toulouse. A Papal Brief of 16 June 1877, authorized the bishops of Montpellier to style themselves bishops of Montpellier, Béziers, Agde, Lodève and Saint-Pons, in memory of the different dioceses united in the present diocese of Montpellier.


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