Divisions
Within France the hierarchy consists of:
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- Besançon
- Belfort-Montbéliard
- Nancy
- Saint-Claude
- Saint-Dié
- Verdun
- Bordeaux
- Agen
- Aire sur Adour
- Bayonne
- Périgueux
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Le Puy-en-Velay
- Moulins
- Saint-Flour
- Dijon
- Autun
- Nevers
- Sens (-Auxerre)
- Mission de France
- Lille
- Cambrai
- Arras (Boulogne, Saint-Omer)
- Lyon (-Vienne) (Primate)
- Annecy
- Belley-Ars
- Chambéry
- Grenoble
- Saint-Etienne
- Valence
- Viviers
- Marseille
- Aix-en-Provence (-Arles-Embrun)
- Ajaccio
- Avignon
- Carpentras
- Digne
- Fréjus et Toulon
- Gap
- Nice
- Montpellier
- Béziers
- Agde
- Carcassonne
- Mende
- Nîmes
- Perpignan-Elne
- Paris
- Créteil
- Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes
- Meaux
- Nanterre
- Pontoise
- Saint-Denis
- Versailles
- Poitiers
- Angoulême
- La Rochelle
- Limoges
- Tulle
- Reims
- Amiens
- Beauvais
- Châlons
- Langres
- Soissons
- Troyes
- Rennes
- Angers
- Laval
- Le Mans
- Luçon
- Nantes
- Quimper (Léon)
- Saint-Brieuc
- Vannes
- Rouen
- Bayeux (-Lisieux)
- Coutances
- Evreux
- Le Havre
- Sées
- Toulouse
- Albi
- Auch
- Cahors
- Montauban
- Pamiers
- Rodez
- Tarbes et Lourdes
- Tours
- Blois
- Bourges
- Chartres
- Orléans
Immediately subject to the Holy See:
- Strasbourg
- Metz
- Sainte-Croix-de-Paris (Armenian Eparchy)
Other:
- Apostolic Exarchate in France, Benelux and Switzerland for the Ukrainians
France is the location of one of the world's major Catholic pilgrim centres at Lourdes.
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