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Metropolitan see Tours, France

Archdiocese of Tours

Turonen(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Tours is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese covering the Indre-et-Loire department in the Loire Valley, erected in the 3rd century and elevated in the 5th century; the see of St. Martin of Tours heads the ecclesiastical province of Tours. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Gatianus in Tours.

On the map

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

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Catholics
503,650
Priests
72
Territory
6,158 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Vincent Jordy
Born
20 January 1961
Birthplace
Perpignan

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Gatianus in Tours stands in Tours, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Its roots reach back to the 3rd century, though the formal erection of the diocese dates from the 5th: the Archdiocese of Tours (Latin: Archidioecesis Turonensis; French: Archidiocèse de Tours) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The ecclesiastical province of Tours matches the late Roman province of Tertia Lugdunensis. During Breton independence, mainly in the tenth century, the see of Dol briefly exercised metropolitical functions.

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