Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Québec

found: New Cath. enc.(Québec, Archdiocese of; called Archbishops by the Pope from 1819; official use of term from 1844)

found: NLC, 06-22-1994(Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Québec; the Diocese of Québec became Archdiocese with the est. of the ecclesiastical province of Québec in 1844; starting in 1819 the Holy See designated the bishops of Québec with the title "Archbishop" but this form was not used in official communications of the incumbents before 1844)

found: Souvenir de la cinquième retraite écclesiastique, commencée le 4 septembre et terminée le 12, 1850, [1850?]:page [1] (Monseigneur l'Archévêque de Québec)

found: Wikipedia, viewed on February 4, 2022("In 1663, Laval would establish the Seminary of Québec. In 1674, with the population of New France growing rapidly and the Seminary of Québec enrolling more students, Pope Clement X elevated the Apostolic Vicariate to a diocese, which would depend directly on the Holy See; this provision would later secure its permanence after New France passed into the hands of Great Britain in 1760. At its peak, in 1712, the Diocese of Québec covered the entire American continent to the Gulf of Mexico. Only the British colonies that would later become the United States and the Spanish colony of Florida were not under the authority of the Bishop of Quebec.") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Quebec