[5] It was raised to the level of archdiocese on January 12, 1819,[5][8] and subsequently became a metropolitan see when the ecclesiastical province of Quebec was constituted in 1844.
[9] In recognition of its status as the first diocese north of Mexico and New Spain,[10] the Archdiocese of Quebec was designated as the country's primatial see on January 24, 1956.
[1][12] Fifteen men have been Archbishop of Quebec; another ten were heads of its antecedent jurisdictions.
[13][14] Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly, the eighth ordinary of the archdiocese, was the first bishop to be born in Canada.
[15][16] His immediate successor, Jean-François Hubert, whose episcopacy spanned from 1788 to 1797, was the first bishop born in Quebec City.