In 1790, Pope Pius VI entirely revised the ecclesiastical map of France to fit the new administrative map: dioceses were now to coincide with departments (the new administrative units), and consequently all Ancien Régime dioceses disappeared. Many former bishoprics remained heads of the new dioceses, but many cities lost their bishop. But the papacy did not accept those changes, and for more than a decade, the new French ecclesiastical hierarchy was technically in schism with Rome.

In 1801, following the Concordate First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte signed with Pope Pius VI, a compromise was found, but it was not before the late 1810s that a stable ecclesiastical organisation was reached, in which one diocese was more or less coterminous with one department. A few exceptions were retained, especially in departments where there was a particularly numerous population.

In December 2002, Pope John Paul II completely redrew the map of French ecclesiastical provinces: for this, see the post-2002 List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France.

The following is a list of French ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses from 1825 to 2002. Except where stated, one diocese coincided with one department.

Province of Aix Archdiocese of Aix = Bouches-du-Rhône, minus the arrondissement of Marseille Diocese of Ajaccio = Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud Diocese of Digne = Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Diocese of Fréjus = Var Diocese of Gap = Hautes-Alpes Diocese of Nice = Alpes-Maritimes

Province of Albi Archdiocese of Albi = Tarn Diocese of Cahors = Lot Diocese of Mende = Lozère Diocese of Perpignan = Pyrénées-Orientales Diocese of Rodez = Aveyron

Province of Auch Archdiocese of Auch = Gers Diocese of Aire-et-Dax = Landes Diocese of Bayonne = Pyrénées-Atlantiques Diocese of Tarbes, renamed as Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes in 1912 = Hautes-Pyrénées

Province of Avignon Archdiocese of Avignon = Vaucluse Diocese of Montpellier = Hérault Diocese of Nîmes = Gard Diocese of Valence = Drôme Diocese of Viviers = Ardèche

Province of Besançon Archdiocese of Besançon = originally Doubs Diocese of Belfort-Montbéliard, detached from Besançon in 1979 = Territoire de Belfort and arrondissement of Montbéliard in the département of the Doubs Diocese of Nancy = originally Meurthe; after 1871, Meurthe-et-Moselle Diocese of Saint-Claude = Jura Diocese of Saint-Dié = Vosges Diocese of Verdun = Meuse

Province of Bordeaux Archdiocese of Bordeaux = Gironde Diocese of Agen = Lot-et-Garonne Diocese of Angoulême = Charente Diocese of La Rochelle = Charente-Maritime Diocese of Luçon = Vendée Diocese of Périgueux = Dordogne Diocese of Poitiers = Vienne and Deux-Sèvres

Province of Bourges Archdiocese of Bourges = Cher and Indre Diocese of Blois = Loir-et-Cher Diocese of Chartres = Eure-et-Loir Diocese of Clermont = Puy-de-Dôme Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay = Haute-Loire Diocese of Limoges = Haute-Vienne and Creuse Diocese of Orléans = Loiret Diocese of Saint-Flour = Cantal Diocese of Tulle = Corrèze

Province of Cambrai Archdiocese of Cambrai = originally Nord Diocese of Lille, detached from Cambrai in 1913 = arrondissements of Lille and Dunkerque Diocese of Arras = Pas-de-Calais

Province of Chambéry Archdiocese of Chambéry, Maurienne, and Tarentaise = Savoie Diocese of Annecy = Haute-Savoie

Province of Lyon Archdiocese of Lyon = originally Rhône and Loire Diocese of Saint-Étienne, detached from Lyon in 1970 = Loire, minus the arrondissement of Roanne Diocese of Autun = Saône-et-Loire Diocese of Belley, renamed as Belley-Ars in 1888 = Ain Diocese of Dijon = Côte-d'Or Diocese of Grenoble = Isère Diocese of Langres = Haute-Marne

Province of Paris Archdiocese of Paris = Originally, département of the Seine, now only the City-département of Paris Diocese of Créteil, detached from Paris in 1966 = Val-de-Marne Diocese of Nanterre, detached from Paris in 1966 = Hauts-de-Seine Diocese of Saint-Denis-en-France, detached from Paris in 1966 = Seine-Saint-Denis Diocese of Versailles = Originally, Seine-et-Oise, now only the smaller department Yvelines Diocese of Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes, detached from Versailles in 1965 = Essonne Diocese of Pontoise, detached from Versailles in 1966 = Val-d'Oise Diocese of Meaux = Seine-et-Marne

Before the establishment of the new dioceses in 1966, the dioceses of Blois, Chartres and Orléans were suffragans of Paris, and only then assigned to the province of Bourges as listed above.

Province of Reims Archdiocese of Reims = département of the Ardennes and arrondissement of Reims in the département of the Marne Diocese of Amiens = Somme Diocese of Beauvais = Oise Diocese of Châlons-en-Champagne = Marne, minus the arrondissement of Reims Diocese of Soissons = Aisne

Province of Rennes (detached from Tours in 1859) Archdiocese of Rennes = Ille-et-Vilaine Diocese of Quimper = Finistère Diocese of Saint-Brieuc = Côtes-d'Armor Diocese of Vannes = Morbihan

Province of Rouen Archdiocese of Rouen = originally the whole of Seine-Maritime Diocese of Le Havre, detached from Rouen in 1974 = arrondissement of Le Havre in Seine-Maritime Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux = Calvados Diocese of Coutances and Avranches = Manche Diocese of Évreux = Eure Diocese of Sées = Orne

Province of Sens Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre = Yonne Diocese of Moulins = Allier Diocese of Nevers = Nièvre Diocese of Troyes = Aube

Province of Toulouse Archdiocese of Toulouse = Haute-Garonne Diocese of Montauban = Tarn-et-Garonne Diocese of Pamiers = Ariège Diocese of Carcassonne = Aude

Province of Tours Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours = Indre-et-Loire Diocese of Angers = Maine-et-Loire Diocese of Le Mans = originally Sarthe and Mayenne Diocese of Laval, detached from Le Mans in 1855 = Mayenne Diocese of Nantes = Loire-Atlantique

Under the direct authority of the Holy See Diocese of Marseille = arrondissement of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône département Diocese of Metz = Moselle Diocese of Strasbourg = Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin (elevated to archdiocese in 1988)

The Concordat of 1801 had made Metz and Strasbourg (historically, suffragans of the then-archdioceses Trier and Mainz respectively) part of the province of Besançon. They were given exempt status after the annexation of their territories by Germany in 1871, but not reattached to Besançon after they were regained by France in 1918.

Overseas ecclesiastical provinces

Antilles-Guyane (province created in 1867) Archdiocese of Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre, created in 1850 = Martinique Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre, created in 1850 = Guadeloupe Diocese of Cayenne, created in 1956 = French Guiana

Under the direct authority of the Holy See Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, created in 1850 = Réunion

Papeete (province created in 1966) Archdiocese of Papeete, created in 1966 = French Polynesia, minus the Marquesas Islands Diocese of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, created in 1966 = Marquesas Islands

Nouméa (province created in 1966) Archdiocese of Nouméa, created in 1966 = New Caledonia Diocese of Wallis-et-Futuna, created in 1966 = Wallis-et-Futuna