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 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
- Laurent Ulrich
- Laurent [Jean Marie Le Boulc’h]