title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Belfort-Montbéliard
text: # Roman Catholic Diocese of Belfort-Montbéliard
  
  The Diocese of Belfort–Montbéliard (Latin: Dioecesis Belfortiensis–Montis Beligardi; French: Diocèse de Belfort–Montbéliard) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in November 1979, the diocese was split off from the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon and remains a suffragan diocese in its ecclesiastical province.
  
  ## Ordinaries
  
  * Eugène Georges Joseph Lecrosnier (3 November 1979 – 1 March 2000)
  * Claude Pierre Charles Schockert (1 March 2000 – 21 May 2015)
  * Dominique Blanchet (21 May 2015 – 9 January 2021)
  * Denis Jean-Marie Jachiet (2 October 2021-)
  