Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec
The
Diocese of
Quebec is the oldest
Catholic see in the New World north of the
Rio Grande. It was founded as the Apostolic Vicarate of
New France in
1658 and was elevated to a Diocese in
1674 and an Archdiocese in
1819. It lost large pieces of its territory with the formation of the Dioceses of
Halifax and
Kingston in
1817, the Diocese of
Winnipeg in
1844 and the Diocese of
Montreal (see
Bishops of Montreal) in
1852. The Archbishop of Quebec has the largely ceremonial title of
Primate of Canada.
- Bishop François de Montmorency-Laval (1658-1688)
- Bishop Jean Baptiste de la Croix Chevrière de Saint-Vallier (1688-1727)
- Bishop Louis François Duplessis de Mornay (1727-1733)
- Bishop Pierre Hermann Dosquet (1733-1739)
- Bishop François Louis Pourroy de Lauberivière (1739-1740)
- Bishop Henri-Marie Dubreuil de Pontbriand (1741-1760)
- Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand (1766-1784)
- Bishop Louis-Philippe-François Mariauchau d'Esglis (1784-1788)
- Bishop Jean-François Hubert (1788-1797)
- Bishop Pierre Denaut (1797-1806)
- Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis (1806-1825)
- Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet (1825-1833)
- Archbishop Joseph Signay (1833-1850)
- Archbishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (1850-1867)
- Archbishop Charles-François Baillargeon (1855-1870)
- Cardinal Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (1871-1898)
- Cardinal Archbishop Louis Nazaire Bégin (1898-1925)
- Archbishop Paul-Eugène Roy (1925-1926)
- Cardinal Archbishop Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau (1926-1931)
- Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (1931-1947)
- Cardinal Archbishop Maurice Roy (1947-1981)
- Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon (1981-1990)
- Archbishop Maurice Couture (1990-2002)
- Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet (2002-pres.)
