The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont, is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in France. The diocese comprises the department of Puy-de-Dôme, in the Region of Auvergne. Its see is Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. For long a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bourges, it became a metropolitan see in 2002. The current Archbishop of Clermont is Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon, who was named Bishop of Clermont in 1996 and Archbishop of Clermont when the see was elevated in 2002; he is one of the two current vice presidents of the Conference of Bishops of France.
At first very extensive, in 1317 the diocese lost Haute-Auvergne through the creation of the diocese of Saint-Flour, and in 1822 the Bourbonnais, on account of the erection of the diocese of Moulins.
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