Metropolitan see Clermont, France
Archdiocese of Clermont
Claromontan(us)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
- Paroisse sainte marie en combraillesTown not recordedView parish
- Paroisse st thomas a clermontTown not recordedView parish
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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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.