Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer) (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Bishop(s)

Olivier Claude Philippe Marie Leborgne, Bishop
Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger, Bishop Emeritus

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese
Name Changed: 23 November 1853
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Lille
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
Country: France
Square Kilometers: 6,671 (2,576 Square Miles)
Conference Region: Nord
Official Web Site: http://arras.catholique.fr/
Mailing Address: Eveche, 4 rue des Fours, CS 40137, 62003 Arras CEDEX, France
Telephone: 3.21.23.75.07

Historical Details

Diocese of Arras
- Latin Name: Atrebatensis
- Erected: 6th Century
- Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Cambrai
- Country: France

Past and Present Ordinaries

Lambert † (10 Jul 1093 Appointed - 17 May 1115 Died)
Raoul de Neuville † (Oct 1203 Appointed - 26 Mar 1221 Died)
Jacques de Dinant † (4 Oct 1247 Appointed - 17 Apr 1259 Resigned)
Pierre de Noyon † ( 1259 Appointed - 5 Sep 1280 Resigned)
Guillaume d’Isy † ( 1282 Appointed - 23 Sep 1293 Died)
Jean Le Moine † (Dec 1293 Appointed - 18 Sep 1294 Appointed, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro)
Gerardo Pigalotti, O.P. † (28 Mar 1295 Appointed - 1316 Died)
Bernard Royardi † (24 Nov 1316 Appointed - 1320 Died)
Pierre de Chappes † (29 Oct 1320 Appointed - 21 May 1326 Appointed, Bishop of Chartres)
Jean du Plessis-Pasté † (21 May 1326 Appointed - 23 Dec 1327 Appointed, Bishop of Chartres)
Thierry de Hérisson † (27 Jan 1328 Appointed - Oct 1328 Died)
Pierre Roger, O.S.B. † (3 Dec 1328 Appointed - 24 Nov 1329 Appointed, Archbishop of Sens)
Andrea Ghini Malpighi † (18 Dec 1329 Appointed - 12 Sep 1334 Appointed, Bishop of Tournai {Doornik})
Jean de Mandevillain † (12 Sep 1334 Appointed - 15 Feb 1339 Appointed, Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne)
Pierre Bertrand (Jr.) † (5 Mar 1339 Appointed - 19 May 1344 Appointed, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna)
Jean Galvan † (28 Feb 1344 Appointed - 1348 Died)
Aimery de Beaufort † (13 Jun 1348 Appointed - 6 Oct 1361 Died)
Gerard de Dainville † (17 Nov 1361 Appointed - 11 Oct 1368 Appointed, Bishop of Thérouanne)
Adhémar Robert † (11 Oct 1368 Appointed - 6 Jun 1371 Appointed, Bishop of Thérouanne)
Hugues du Fay (Faydit) † (6 Jun 1371 Appointed - 1374 Died)
Pierre Masuyer † (21 Jul 1374 Appointed - 1391 Died)
Jean Canard † (6 Sep 1392 Appointed - 7 Oct 1407 Died)
Martin Poiré, O.P. † (24 Nov 1407 Appointed - 1426 Died)
Hugues de Cayeu † (16 Dec 1426 Appointed - 13 Jan 1438 Died)
Quentin Menard † ( 1438 Appointed - 23 Sep 1439 Appointed, Archbishop of Besançon)
Fortigario di Piacenza † (23 Sep 1439 Appointed - 21 Feb 1453 Died)
Jaime de Portugal † (23 Mar 1453 Appointed - 30 Apr 1453 Appointed, Administrator of Lisboa)
Jean Jouffroy, O.S.B. † (30 Apr 1453 Appointed - 10 Dec 1462 Appointed, Bishop of Albi)
Pierre de Ranchicourt † (17 Apr 1463 Appointed - 26 Aug 1499 Died)
Antoine d’Albon † (13 Jan 1500 Appointed - 1501 Resigned)
Nicolas Ruistre † (16 Feb 1502 Appointed - 5 Nov 1509 Died)
François de Melun † (15 Jul 1510 Appointed - 26 Nov 1516 Appointed, Bishop of Thérouanne)
Philippe de Luxembourg † (26 Nov 1516 Appointed - 10 Mar 1518 Resigned)
Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † (10 Mar 1518 Appointed - 8 Sep 1523 Resigned)
Eustache de Croy † (8 Sep 1523 Appointed - 3 Oct 1538 Died)
Antoine Perrenot de Granvella † (29 Nov 1538 Appointed - 10 Mar 1561 Appointed, Archbishop of Mechelen)
François Richardot, O.S.A. † (10 Mar 1561 Appointed - 26 Jul 1574 Died)
Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. † (24 May 1577 Appointed - 11 Jul 1600 Died)
Jean du Ploich † (10 Sep 1601 Appointed - 1 Jul 1602 Died)
Jean Richardot † (30 Apr 1603 Appointed - 17 Aug 1609 Appointed, Archbishop of Cambrai)
Hermann Ottemberg † (24 Nov 1610 Appointed - 23 May 1626 Died)
Paul Boudot † (8 Feb 1627 Confirmed - 11 Nov 1635 Died)
Ladislas Jonnart † ( 1651 Appointed - 31 Jul 1662 Appointed, Bishop of Saint-Omer)
Étienne Moreau † (3 Sep 1668 Confirmed - 8 Jan 1670 Died)
Guy de Sève de Rochechouart † (28 Jul 1670 Appointed - 27 Dec 1724 Died)
François de Baglion de la Salle † (16 Dec 1726 Confirmed - 14 Mar 1752 Died)
Jean de Bonneguise † (25 Sep 1752 Confirmed - 28 Feb 1769 Died)
Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de Conzié † (21 Aug 1769 Confirmed - 17 Dec 1804 Died)
Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais † (6 May 1802 Confirmed - 20 Jul 1851 Died)
Pierre-Louis Parisis † (5 Sep 1851 Confirmed - 5 Mar 1866 Died)
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Lequette † (22 Jun 1866 Confirmed - 13 Jun 1882 Died)
Guillaume-René Meignan † (25 Sep 1882 Confirmed - 24 Mar 1884 Confirmed, Archbishop of Tours)
Désiré-Joseph Dennel † (13 Nov 1884 Confirmed - 28 Oct 1891 Died)
Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez † (11 Jul 1892 Confirmed - 25 Jan 1911 Died)
Emile-Louis-Cornil Lobbedey † (5 May 1911 Appointed - 24 Dec 1916 Died)
Eugène-Louis-Ernest Julien † (22 Mar 1917 Appointed - 14 Mar 1930 Died)
Henri-Édouard Dutoit † (23 Dec 1930 Appointed - 11 Sep 1945 Resigned)
Victor-Jean Perrin † (3 Nov 1945 Appointed - 26 Nov 1961 Resigned)
Gérard-Maurice-Eugène Huyghe † (15 Dec 1961 Appointed - 25 Sep 1984 Retired)
Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet † (10 Oct 1985 Appointed - 12 Aug 1998 Retired)
Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger (12 Aug 1998 Appointed - 4 Sep 2020 Retired)
Olivier Claude Philippe Marie Leborgne (4 Sep 2020 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Arras
6th Century	Erected		Diocese of Arras (erected)
12 May 1559	Metropolitan Changed		Diocese of Arras (from Reims to Cambrai)
29 November 1801	Territory Added	Diocese of Boulogne (-Sur-Mer) (suppressed) Diocese of Saint-Omer (suppressed)	Diocese of Arras
Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
23 November 1853	Name Changed	Diocese of Arras	Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
8 July 1921	Territory Added	Diocese of Lille (Fromelles)	Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
8 July 1921	Territory Lost	Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer) (Fleurbaix)	Diocese of Lille
6 November 1958	Territory Added	Archdiocese of Cambrai (Demicourt)	Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
18 February 1972	Territory Added	Diocese of Amiens (Ytres (in Somme and Pas-de-Calais))	Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
29 March 2008	Metropolitan Changed		Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer) (from Cambrai)

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)

1950 1,168,545 .0% 1,142 84 1,226 0 125 1,900 831 ap1951

1959 1,142,150 1,276,833 89.5% 1,143 104 1,247 915 199 1,693 1,037 ap1960

1970 1,397,159 .0% 859 45 904 0 230 1,407 1,020 ap1971

1980 1,204,000 1,421,000 84.7% 788 103 891 1,351 148 1,202 1,025 ap1981

1990 1,195,000 1,425,000 83.9% 603 90 693 1,724 7 127 912 1,043 ap1991

1999 1,113,000 1,454,000 76.5% 425 62 487 2,285 17 82 708 576 ap2000

2000 1,103,000 1,441,568 76.5% 430 61 491 2,246 21 81 652 556 ap2001

2001 1,102,000 1,440,382 76.5% 432 59 491 2,244 23 74 633 556 ap2002

2002 1,103,000 1,441,568 76.5% 387 60 447 2,467 27 73 610 518 ap2003

2003 1,104,000 1,441,568 76.6% 368 52 420 2,628 28 65 528 518 ap2004

2004 1,104,000 1,441,568 76.6% 346 57 403 2,739 28 69 486 567 ap2005

2006 1,102,567 1,439,697 76.6% 319 51 370 2,979 32 65 463 102 ap2007

2012 1,138,000 1,488,951 76.4% 230 43 273 4,168 43 52 248 ap2013*

2015 1,148,700 1,490,820 77.1% 206 43 249 4,613 50 51 207 92 ap2016

2018 1,160,010 1,505,490 77.1% 168 32 200 5,800 54 38 164 91 ap2019

2020 1,147,600 1,489,000 77.1% 167 33 200 5,738 59 41 140 89 ap2021

2022 1,149,680 1,491,710 77.1% 141 26 167 6,884 63 33 131 89 ap2023

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
1950		1,168,545	.0%	1,142	84	1,226	0		125	1,900	831	ap1951
1959	1,142,150	1,276,833	89.5%	1,143	104	1,247	915		199	1,693	1,037	ap1960
1970		1,397,159	.0%	859	45	904	0		230	1,407	1,020	ap1971
1980	1,204,000	1,421,000	84.7%	788	103	891	1,351		148	1,202	1,025	ap1981
1990	1,195,000	1,425,000	83.9%	603	90	693	1,724	7	127	912	1,043	ap1991
1999	1,113,000	1,454,000	76.5%	425	62	487	2,285	17	82	708	576	ap2000
2000	1,103,000	1,441,568	76.5%	430	61	491	2,246	21	81	652	556	ap2001
2001	1,102,000	1,440,382	76.5%	432	59	491	2,244	23	74	633	556	ap2002
2002	1,103,000	1,441,568	76.5%	387	60	447	2,467	27	73	610	518	ap2003
2003	1,104,000	1,441,568	76.6%	368	52	420	2,628	28	65	528	518	ap2004
2004	1,104,000	1,441,568	76.6%	346	57	403	2,739	28	69	486	567	ap2005
2006	1,102,567	1,439,697	76.6%	319	51	370	2,979	32	65	463	102	ap2007
2012	1,138,000	1,488,951	76.4%	230	43	273	4,168	43	52	248		ap2013*
2015	1,148,700	1,490,820	77.1%	206	43	249	4,613	50	51	207	92	ap2016
2018	1,160,010	1,505,490	77.1%	168	32	200	5,800	54	38	164	91	ap2019
2020	1,147,600	1,489,000	77.1%	167	33	200	5,738	59	41	140	89	ap2021
2022	1,149,680	1,491,710	77.1%	141	26	167	6,884	63	33	131	89	ap2023

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † (Administrator: 10 Mar 1518 to 8 Sep 1523)
Antoine d’Albon † (Bishop: 13 Jan 1500 to 1501)
François de Baglion de la Salle † (Bishop: 16 Dec 1726 to 14 Mar 1752)
Aimery de Beaufort † (Bishop: 13 Jun 1348 to 6 Oct 1361)
Pierre Bertrand (Jr.) † (Bishop: 5 Mar 1339 to 19 May 1344)
Jean de Bonneguise † (Bishop: 25 Sep 1752 to 28 Feb 1769)
Paul Boudot † (Bishop: 8 Feb 1627 to 11 Nov 1635)
Joseph-Fructueux Bourgain, M.E.P. †
Albert Henri Charles Breton, M.E.P. †
Henri-Joseph Bulté, S.J. †
Jean-Pierre Camus †
Jean Canard † (Bishop: 6 Sep 1392 to 7 Oct 1407)
Clovis-Nicolas-Joseph Catteau † (Priest: 21 Dec 1861 to 21 Sep 1877)
Hugues de Cayeu † (Bishop: 16 Dec 1426 to 13 Jan 1438)
Joseph-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Chappe † (Priest: 13 Jul 1913 to 6 Apr 1949)
Pierre de Chappes † (Bishop: 29 Oct 1320 to 21 May 1326)
Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de Conzié † (Bishop: 21 Aug 1769 to 17 Dec 1804)
Eustache de Croy † (Bishop: 8 Sep 1523 to 3 Oct 1538)
Gerard de Dainville † (Bishop: 17 Nov 1361 to 11 Oct 1368)
François-Xavier-Timothée Danicourt, C.M. †
Désiré-Joseph Dennel † (Bishop: 13 Nov 1884 to 28 Oct 1891)
Augustin-Victor Deramecourt † (Priest: 23 Sep 1865 to 24 Mar 1898)
Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet † (Bishop: 10 Oct 1985 to 12 Aug 1998)
Jacques de Dinant † (Bishop: 4 Oct 1247 to 17 Apr 1259)
Hugues du Fay (Faydit) † (Bishop: 6 Jun 1371 to 1374)
Nicolas Dufiff †
Henri-Édouard Dutoit † (Bishop: 23 Dec 1930 to 11 Sep 1945)
André-Léonce-Joseph Eloy, M.E.P. †
Jean de Falconet, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 9 Jul 1456 to 1460)
Jean Galvan † (Bishop: 28 Feb 1344 to 1348)
Andrea Ghini Malpighi † (Bishop: 18 Dec 1329 to 12 Sep 1334)
Thomas Grant †
Barthélemy-Pierre-Joseph-Marie-Henri Hanrion, O.F.M. †
Jules-Louis-Paul Harlé † (Priest: 24 Dec 1939; Auxiliary Bishop: 12 Oct 1970 to 18 Feb 1991)
Thierry de Hérisson † (Bishop: 27 Jan 1328 to Oct 1328)
Gérard-Maurice-Eugène Huyghe † (Bishop: 15 Dec 1961 to 25 Sep 1984)
Guillaume d’Isy † (Bishop: 1282 to 23 Sep 1293)
Ladislas Jonnart † (Bishop: 1651 to 31 Jul 1662)
Jean Jouffroy, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 30 Apr 1453 to 10 Dec 1462)
Eugène-Louis-Ernest Julien † (Bishop: 22 Mar 1917 to 14 Mar 1930)
Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré † (Priest: 23 Sep 1865 to 27 Mar 1885)
Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais † (Bishop: 6 May 1802 to 20 Jul 1851)
Jean Le Moine † (Bishop: Dec 1293 to 18 Sep 1294)
Rémy-Louis Leprêtre, O.F.M. †
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Lequette † (Bishop: 22 Jun 1866 to 13 Jun 1882)
Géry-Jacques-Charles Leuliet † (Priest: 8 Jul 1933 to 14 Feb 1963)
Emile-Louis-Cornil Lobbedey † (Bishop: 5 May 1911 to 24 Dec 1916)
Philippe de Luxembourg † (Bishop: 26 Nov 1516 to 10 Mar 1518)
Jean de Mandevillain † (Bishop: 12 Sep 1334 to 15 Feb 1339)
Pierre Masuyer † (Bishop: 21 Jul 1374 to 1391)
Guillaume-René Meignan † (Bishop: 25 Sep 1882 to 24 Mar 1884)
François de Melun † (Bishop: 15 Jul 1510 to 26 Nov 1516)
Quentin Menard † (Bishop: 1438 to 23 Sep 1439)
Eudoxe-Irénée-Edouard Mignot † (Priest: 23 Sep 1865 to 26 Jun 1890)
Étienne Moreau † (Bishop: 3 Sep 1668 to 8 Jan 1670)
Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 24 May 1577 to 11 Jul 1600)
Raoul de Neuville † (Bishop: Oct 1203 to 26 Mar 1221)
Jacques Moïse Eugène Noyer † (Priest: 2 Jul 1950 to 31 Oct 1987)
Pierre de Noyon † (Bishop: 1259 to 5 Sep 1280)
Hermann Ottemberg † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1610 to 23 May 1626)
André-Maurice Parenty † (Auxiliary Bishop: 9 Mar 1950 to 5 Sep 1975)
Pierre-Louis Parisis † (Bishop: 5 Sep 1851 to 5 Mar 1866)
Antoine Perrenot de Granvella † (Bishop: 29 Nov 1538 to 10 Mar 1561)
Victor-Jean Perrin † (Bishop: 3 Nov 1945 to 26 Nov 1961)
Fortigario di Piacenza † (Bishop: 23 Sep 1439 to 21 Feb 1453)
Gerardo Pigalotti, O.P. † (Bishop: 28 Mar 1295 to 1316)
Jean du Plessis-Pasté † (Bishop: 21 May 1326 to 23 Dec 1327)
Jean du Ploich † (Bishop: 10 Sep 1601 to 1 Jul 1602)
Martin Poiré, O.P. † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1407 to 1426)
Jaime de Portugal † (Administrator: 23 Mar 1453 to 30 Apr 1453)
Pierre de Ranchicourt † (Bishop: 17 Apr 1463 to 26 Aug 1499)
Louis Amadeus Rappe † (Priest: 14 Mar 1829 to 23 Apr 1847)
François Richardot, O.S.A. † (Bishop: 10 Mar 1561 to 26 Jul 1574)
Jean Richardot † (Bishop: 30 Apr 1603 to 17 Aug 1609)
Adhémar Robert † (Bishop: 11 Oct 1368 to 6 Jun 1371)
Pierre Roger, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 3 Dec 1328 to 24 Nov 1329)
Bernard Royardi † (Bishop: 24 Nov 1316 to 1320)
Nicolas Ruistre † (Bishop: 16 Feb 1502 to 5 Nov 1509)
Jean Sarrazin, O.S.B. †
Guy de Sève de Rochechouart † (Bishop: 28 Jul 1670 to 27 Dec 1724)
Anatole-Joseph Toulotte, M. Afr. †
Joseph Gustave François Wicquart † (Priest: 18 Jul 1937 to 2 Sep 1966)
François Louis Widebien (Widerien), O.P. †
Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez † (Bishop: 11 Jul 1892 to 25 Jan 1911)
Lambert † (Bishop: 10 Jul 1093 to 17 May 1115)

Source(s)

Diocese of Arras
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 115, and Page 116
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 98
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 122
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 99, and Page 100
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 104
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 105
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 93
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 129
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 495, to Page 496
Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 71
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 13, Page 382, and Page 383
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 51, Page 225, and Page 226
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 64, Page 318, and Page 319
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 100, Page 213, and Page 214

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