Archdiocese of Lille, France 🇫🇷 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1913.10.25: Established as Diocese of Lille (français) / Lilla (Italiano) / Insulen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cambrai and became suffragan of Cambrai)
• 2008.03.29: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lille (français) / Lilla (Italiano) / Insulen(sis) (Latin) (with suffragan sees Cambrai and Arras)

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2023.04.01 – ...):	Archbishop Laurent Le Boulc’h (63)

Ordinaries

Former Prelates

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 2,288 km²

Population: 1,138,550 Catholics (68.9% of 1,652,055 total)

Pastoral Centres: 106 parishes

Personnel: 251 priests (221 diocesan, 30 religious), 104 deacons, 405 religious (101 brothers, 304 sisters), 6 seminarians