Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras
The Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The episcopal see is the Arras Cathedral, in the city of Arras. The diocese encompasses all of the Department of Pas-de-Calais, in the Region of Hauts-de-France.
Arras Cathedral
Bishop Jean-Paul Jaeger
Arras is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a Baroque town square, Arras is in northern France at the confluence of the rivers Scarpe and Crinchon.
The ordination of Saint Vaast
"Li congié" by Jean Bodel, a trouvère that lived in Arras in the 12th century
Arras: tapestry representing God's conversation with Noah
Arras-born lawyer and politician Maximilien de Robespierre