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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lille
Archidioecesis Metropolitae Insulensis
Archidiocèse Metropolitain de Lille
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| Country |  France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Lille |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 2,288 km2 (883 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2019) 1,647,519 1,135,000 (68.9%) |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 25 October 1913 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Lille |
| Patron saint | Notre-Dame de la Treille |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Laurent Le Boulc'h |
| Suffragans | Archdiocese of Cambrai Diocese of Arras |
| Bishops emeritus | Gérard Defois (Archbishop emeritus) Gérard Coliche (Auxiliary bishop emeritus) |
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| Website of the Archdiocese | |
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lille (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Insulensis; French: Archidiocèse Metropolitain de Lille)[pronunciation?] is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic ChurchinFrance.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Marian Minor Basilica: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de la Treille, in Lille, Nord, Hauts-de-France.
Erected on 25 October 1913 originally as the Diocese of Lille, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cambrai, on territory split off from the then Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, it encompasses the arrondissementsofDunkerque and Lille, within the departmentofNord in the RegionofNord-Pas-de-Calais.
It was elevated to a Metropolitan ArchdiocesebyPope Benedict XVI on March 29, 2008.
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and two suffragan sees :
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| Province of Besançon |
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| Province of Bordeaux |
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| Province of Clermont |
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| Province of Dijon |
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| Province of Lille |
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| Province of Lyon |
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| Province of Marseille |
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| Province of Montpellier |
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| Province of Paris |
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| Province of Poitiers |
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| Province of Reims |
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| Province of Rennes |
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| Province of Rouen |
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| Province of Toulouse |
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| Province of Tours |
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| Province of Martinique |
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| Province of Papeete |
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| Province of Noumea |
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| Directly under Holy See |
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| Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics |
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