Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval, was a French Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Vicar of New France from 1658 to 1674 and as Bishop of Quebec from its creation in 1674 until he retired due to poor health in 1688. He continued to work in New France until his death in 1708.
François de Laval
Icon of St François de Laval
François de Laval
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec
The Archdiocese of Québec is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest episcopal see in the New World north of Mexico and the primatial see of Canada. The Archdiocese of Quebec is also the metropolitan see of an ecclesiastical province with the suffragan dioceses of Chicoutimi, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and Trois-Rivières. The archdiocese's cathedral is Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City.
Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral
Saint François de Montmorency-Laval, first bishop of Quebec