![[basilica of Our Lady of Quebec City, archdiocese of Quebec]](ncd06918.jpg "32kb jpg photograph of the basilica of Our Lady of Quebec City, archdiocese of Quebec; taken on 3 July 2006 by Claude Boucher; swiped off the Wikipedia web site; please do not write to ask about the image")
Founded as the Vicariate Apostolic of New France on 11 April 1658.
Elevated to the diocese of Quebec on 1 October 1674.
Elevated to an archdiocese on 12 January 1819.
Designated as a metropolitan archdiocese on 12 July 1844.
Its first bishop was Blessed Francis de Montmorency Laval.
Suffragen dioceses include
- Chicoutimi
- Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière
- Trois Rivières
New Catholic Dictionary
