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.
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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.
- Paroisse Sainte Claire d'Assise de DescartesDescartesView parish
- Paroisse Sainte Jeanne d'Arc en ChinonaisChinonView parish
- Paroisse Sainte Joséphine BakhitaLangeaisView parish
- Paroisse Sainte Kateri TekakwithaChâteau-la-VallièreView parish
- Paroisse Sainte Maure - Saint EpainSainte-Maure-de-TouraineView parish
- Paroisse Sainte Monégonde en LochoisLochesView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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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