Archdiocese of Lille
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lille is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Marian Minor Basilica: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de la Treille, in Lille, Nord, Hauts-de-France.
History
Erected on 25 October 1913 originally as the Diocese of Lille, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Cambrai|Archdiocese of Cambrai], on territory split off from the then Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, it encompasses the arrondissements of Dunkerque and Lille, within the department of Nord in the Region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.It was elevated to a Metropolitan Archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on March 29, 2008.
Province
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and two suffragan sees :- its formerly Metropolitan mother the Archdiocese of Cambrai
- the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras.
Ordinaries
;Bishops of Lille- Alexis-Armand Charost
- Hector-Raphaël Quilliet
- Achille Liénart
- Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand
- Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet
- Gérard Defois
- Laurent Ulrich