Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours

Archdiocese of Tours Archidioecesis Turonensis Archidiocèse de Tours
Tours Cathedral
Location
Country	France
Ecclesiastical province	Tours
Statistics
Area	6,158 km2 (2,378 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2017) 604,000 (est.) 498,800 (est.)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	3rd Century (As Diocese of Tours) 5th Century (As Archdiocese of Tours)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Gatianus in Tours
Patron saint	St. Gatianus of Tours St. Martin of Tours
Secular priests	79 (diocesan) 22 (religious orders) 24 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Vincent Jordy
Suffragans	Archdiocese of Bourges Diocese of Blois Diocese of Chartres Diocese of Orléans
Bishops emeritus	Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin
Map
Website
diocesedetours.catholique.fr

The Archdiocese of Tours (Latin: Archidioecesis Turonensis; French: Archidiocèse de Tours) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The archdiocese has roots that go back to the 3rd century, while the formal erection of the diocese dates from the 5th century.

The ecclesiastical province of Tours corresponds with the late Roman province of Tertia Lugdunensis. During Breton independence the see of Dol briefly exercised metropolitical functions (mainly tenth century). In 1859 the Breton dioceses except that of Nantes were constituted into a province of Rennes. Tours kept its historic suffragans of Le Mans, Angers together with Nantes and a newly constituted Diocese of Laval. In 2002 Tours lost all connection with its historic province, all its previous suffragans depending henceforth on an expanded province of Rennes (corresponding to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire administrative regions). Tours since 2002 has become the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Centre administrative region.