These are planned for 20 to 22 September, as the Vatican announced on Saturday. Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, is considered a confidant of Pope Francis.
In September 2023, he hosted the Mediterranean meeting in the French port metropolis, which the Pope also attended. There he rediscovered European passion and enthusiasm, Francis praised afterwards.
In October 2023, he was also appointed by the Pope to the commission responsible for the final paper of the World Synod in the Vatican.
Quebec, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the New World north of Mexico, was founded in 1658 as the Apostolic Vicariate of New France.
It was elevated to a diocese on 1 October 1674. At that time, its territory covered most of North America, from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, with the exception of New England, Florida and California.
With the elevation to an archdiocese in 1819, the diocese lost some territories.
Around one million Catholics live in the French-speaking archdiocese in eastern Canada (2022).
This corresponds to around 77 per cent of the approximately 1.3 million inhabitants of the area.