page_title: List of Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec
section_title: List of ordinaries
hierarchical_section_title: List of Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec / List of ordinaries
caption_attribution_description: Joseph-Octave Plessis, catholic bishop of Quebec
context_page_description: The Archbishop of Quebec is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs. As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing the north-central part of the province of Quebec, the Archbishop of Quebec also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Chicoutimi, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and Trois-Rivières. The current archbishop is Gérald Lacroix.
  The archdiocese began as the Vicariate Apostolic of New France, which was created on April 11, 1658. François de Laval was appointed its first bishop, and under his reign, the Séminaire de Québec was established. On October 1, 1674, the vicariate was elevated to the status of diocese. It was raised to the level of archdiocese on January 12, 1819, and subsequently became a metropolitan see when the ecclesiastical province of Quebec was constituted in 1844. In recognition of its status as the first diocese north of Mexico and New Spain, the Archdiocese of Quebec was designated as the country's primatial see on January 24, 1956.
caption: Joseph-Octave Plessis was the last Bishop of Quebec and its first archbishop.
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