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Metropolitan see Clermont, France

Archdiocese of Clermont

Claromontan(us)

The Archdiocese of Clermont is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese covering the Puy-de-Dome department in the Auvergne region of central France; the ancient see (3rd century) was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 8 December 2002. Its province includes Le Puy-en-Velay, Moulins and Saint-Flour. Its seat is the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Clermont-Ferrand.

On the map

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Clermont, France, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
2002
Catholics
616,000
Priests
83
Territory
8,016 km²

Parishes and churches

32 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Francois Kalist
Born
30 October 1958
Birthplace
Bourges

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Clermont-Ferrand stands in Clermont, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

The department of Puy-de-Dôme, in the Region of Auvergne, forms the territory of the Archdiocese of Clermont (Latin: Archidioecesis Claromontana; French: Archidiocèse de Clermont), a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France whose archbishop's seat is Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. For most of its history Clermont ranked as the senior suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bourges, but in 2002 it became a metropolitan see in its own right. François Kalist is the current archbishop.