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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours

Archdiocese of Tours
Archidioecesis Turonensis
Archidiocèse de Tours
Cathédrale Saint-Gatien de Tours.JPG
Location
Country  France
Ecclesiastical province Tours
Statistics
Area 6,158 km2 (2,378 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2014)
607,000
501,600 (82.6%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 3rd Century (As Diocese of Tours)
5th Century (As Archdiocese of Tours)
Cathedral Cathedral of St. Gatianus in Tours
Patron saint St. Gatianus of Tours
St. Martin of Tours
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin
Suffragans Archdiocese of Bourges
Diocese of Blois
Diocese of Chartres
Diocese of Orléans
Map
Provinces ecclésiastiques 2002 (France).svg
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours (Latin: Archidioecesis Turonensis) is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The archdiocese encompasses the historical Gallo-Roman province of Civitas Turonum and the French province of Touraine. Since 1790 it has corresponded with the département of Indre et Loire. Erected in the 3rd century, the diocese was elevated in the 5th century.

The ecclesiastical province of Tours corresponded with the late Roman province of Tertia Lugdunensis. During Breton independence the see of Dol briefly exercised metropolitical functions (mainly tenth century). In 1859 the Breton dioceses except that of Nantes were constituted into a province of Rennes. Tours kept its historic suffragans of Le Mans, Angers (a hostile bishop of Angers appears to have been present at the episcopal consecration of St. Martin) together with Nantes and a newly constituted diocese of Laval. In 2002 Tours lost all connection with its historic province, all its previous suffragans depending henceforth on an expanded province of Rennes (corresponding to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire administrative regions). Tours since 2002 has become the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Centre administrative region, i.e. including the dioceses of Bourges, which has lost its metropolitical function to Clermont Ferrand, Orleans, Chartres and Blois, which depended historically on Sens (Lugdunensis Quarta) and more recently on Paris (and briefly Bourges).

The current bishop is Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, who was appointed in 2005.


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