[*] The greater part of these provinces as they formerly stood were ceded to Germany, May 10, 1871.
III
The Church in France
La France Catholique is to-day divided into eighty-four dioceses, administered, as to spiritual affairs, by seventeen archbishops and sixty-seven bishops. To each diocese is attached a seminary for the instruction of those who aspire to the priesthood. Each chief town of a canton has its curé, each parish its desservant.
| Archbishops and Bishops | Dioceses |
| Paris | Seine |
| Chartres | Eure-et-Loire |
| Meaux | Seine-et-Marne |
| Orleans | Loiret |
| Blois | Loir-et-Cher |
| Versailles | Seine-et-Oise |
| Cambrai | Nord |
| Arras | Pas-de-Calais |
| Lyon-et-Vienne | Rhône, Loire |
| Autun | Saône-et-Loire |
| Langres | Haute-Marne |
| Dijon | Côte-d'Or |
| Sainte Claude | Jura |
| Grenoble | Isère |
| Bourges | Cher-et-Indre |
| Clermont | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Limoges | Haute-Vienne et Creuse |
| Le Puy | Haute-Loire |
| Tulle | Corrèze |
| Saint Flour Cantal |
| Albi | Tarn |
| Rodez | Aveyron |
| Cahors | Lot |
| Meude | Lozère |
| Perpignan | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Bordeaux[**] | Gironde |
| Agen | Lot-et-Garonne |
| Angoulême | Charente |
| Poitiers | Vienne-et-Deux Sèvres |
| Périgueux | Dordogne |
| La Rochelle Charente-Inférieure |
| Luçon | Vendée |
| Auch | Gers |
| Aire | Landes |
| Tarbes | Hautes-Pyrénées |
| Bayonne | Basses-Pyrénées |
| Toulouse-Narbonne | Haute-Garonne |
| Montauban | Tarnè-et-Garonne |
| Pamiers | Ariège |
| Carcassonne Aude |
| Rouen | Seine-Inférieure |
| Bayeux | Calvados |
| Evreux | Eure |
| Séez | Orne |
| Coutances | Manche |
| Sens et Auxerre | Yonne |
| Troyes | Aube |
| Nevers | Nièvre |
| Moulins | Allier |
| Reims | Arr. de Reims-et-Ardennes |
| Soissons | Aisne |
| Châlons-sur-Marne | Marne except Arrond. de Reims |
| Beauvais | Oise |
| Amiens | Somme |
| Tours | Indre-et-Loire |
| Le Mans | Sarthe |
| Angers | Maine-et-Loire |
| Nantes | Loire-Inférieure |
| Laval | Mayenne |
| Aix, Arles, and Embrun | Bouches-du-Rhône except Marseilles |
| Marseilles | Arr. de Marseilles |
| Fréjus and Toulon | Var |
| Digne | Basses-Alpes |
| Gap | Hautes-Alpes |
| Nice | Alpes-Maritimes |
| Ajaccio | Corse |
| Besançon | Doubs et Haute-Saône |
| Verdun | Meuse |
| Belley | Ain |
| St. Dié | Vosges |
| Nancy | Meurthe |
| Avignon | Vaucluse |
| Nîmes | Gard |
| Valence | Drôme |
| Viviers | Ardèche |
| Montpellier Hérault |
| Rennes | Ille-et-Vilaine |
| Quimper | Finisterre |
| Vannes | Morbihan |
| St. Brieuc | Côtes-du-Nord |
| Chambéry |
| Annecy | Haute-Savoie |
| Tarentaise | Val-de-Tarentaise (Savoie) |
| Maurienne | Val-de-Maurienne (Savoie) |
[**] The Archbishop of Bordeaux has three suffragans outside France: St. Denis and La Reunion, St. Pierre and Fort de France (Martinique), Basseterre (Guadaloupe).
IV
A List of the Larger French Churches which were at one time Cathedrals and usually referred to as such.