List of Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec

[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.

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François de Laval was the first Apostolic Vicar of New France and Bishop of Quebec, reigning from 1658 to 1688.
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Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier was Bishop of Quebec for 39 years, serving from 1688 until his death in 1727.
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Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly was the first Canadian-born bishop.
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Joseph-Octave Plessis was the last Bishop of Quebec and its first archbishop.
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Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau became the first Canadian-born cardinal in 1886.