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List of Roman Catholic archbishops of Paris

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Notre-Dame de Paris is the seat of the archbishop of Paris

The archbishop of Paris is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris. As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing the Île-de-France region, the archbishop of Paris also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Créteil, Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, Meaux, Nanterre, Pontoise, Saint-Denis and Versailles. The current archbishop is Laurent Ulrich.

The diocese of Paris was erected in the 3rd century.[1] It was elevated to its current status in 1622.[2][3] Since then there have been 30 archbishops of Paris, with Jean-François de Gondi being the first.[3]

Key
‡ Denotes archbishop who was a cardinal during their episcopate
O.M.I. Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
P.S.S. Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice
Portrait Bishop Episcopate Duration Pope[a] Ref.
Jean-François de Gondi 14 November 1622
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21 March 1654		 31 years, 127 days Gregory XV [3][4]
Jean François Paul de Gondi‡ 21 March 1654
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15 February 1662		 7 years, 331 days Urban VIII[b] [5][4]
Pierre de Marca 5 June 1662
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29 June 1662		 24 days Alexander VII [6][4]
Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont 24 March 1664
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1 January 1671		 6 years, 283 days Alexander VII [7][8][4]
François de Harlay de Champvallon 23 February 1671
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6 August 1695		 24 years, 164 days Clement X [9][4]
Louis Antoine de Noailles‡ 19 September 1695
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4 May 1729		 33 years, 227 days Innocent XII [10][4]
Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc 17 August 1729
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13 March 1746		 16 years, 208 days Benedict XIII [11][4]
Jacques-Bonne Gigault de Bellefonds 2 May 1746
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20 July 1746		 79 days Benedict XIV [4]
Christophe de Beaumont 19 September 1746
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12 December 1781		 35 years, 84 days Benedict XIV [12][4]
Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné 25 February 1782
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31 January 1802		 19 years, 340 days Pius VI [13][4]
Jean-Baptiste de Belloy‡ 10 April 1802
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10 June 1808		 6 years, 61 days Pius VII [14][4]
Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord‡ 1 October 1817
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20 October 1821		 4 years, 19 days Pius VII [15][4]
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen 20 October 1821
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31 December 1839		 18 years, 72 days Pius VII[b] [16][17]
Denis Auguste Affre 13 July 1840
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27 June 1848		 7 years, 350 days Gregory XVI [18][19]
Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour 11 September 1848
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3 January 1857		 8 years, 114 days Pius IX [20][21]
François Nicholas Madeleine Morlot‡ 19 March 1857
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29 December 1862		 5 years, 285 days Pius IX [22][23]
Georges Darboy 16 March 1863
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24 May 1871		 8 years, 69 days Pius IX [24][25][26]
Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I.‡ 27 October 1871
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8 July 1886		 14 years, 254 days Pius IX [27][28]
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard‡ 8 July 1886
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28 January 1908		 21 years, 204 days Pius IX[b] [29][30]
Léon-Adolphe Amette‡ 28 January 1908
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29 August 1920		 12 years, 214 days Pius X[b] [31][32]
Louis-Ernest Dubois‡ 13 September 1920
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23 September 1929		 9 years, 10 days Benedict XV [33][34]
Jean Verdier, P.S.S.‡ 18 November 1929
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9 April 1940		 10 years, 143 days Pius XI [35][36]
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard‡ 11 May 1940
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30 May 1949		 9 years, 19 days Pius XII [37][38]
Maurice Feltin‡ 15 August 1949
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1 December 1966		 17 years, 108 days Pius XII [39][40][41]
Pierre Veuillot‡ 1 December 1966
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14 February 1968		 1 year, 75 days John XXIII[b] [42][43]
François Marty‡ 26 March 1968
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31 January 1981		 12 years, 311 days Paul VI [44]
Jean-Marie Lustiger‡ 31 January 1981
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11 February 2005		 24 years, 11 days John Paul II [45][46][47]
André Vingt-Trois‡ 11 February 2005
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7 December 2017		 12 years, 299 days John Paul II [48][49]
Michel Aupetit 7 December 2017
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2 December 2021		 3 years, 360 days Francis [48][50]
Laurent Ulrich 26 April 2022
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present		 3 years, 69 days Francis [51]

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