Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville

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Archdiocese of Louisville Archidiœcesis Ludovicopolitana
Cathedral of the Assumption
Coat of arms
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Central Kentucky
Ecclesiastical province	Louisville
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2018) 1.1 million 218,000 (17.7%)
Parishes	110
Schools	46 K-12 Schools 3 Colleges/Universities
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	April 8, 1808
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Assumption
Patron saint	Saint Joseph[1]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Shelton Fabre
Bishops emeritus	Joseph Edward Kurtz
Map
Website
archlou.org

The Archdiocese of Louisville (Latin: Archidiœcesis Ludovicopolitanais) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in central Kentucky in the United States. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, Kentucky. The archdiocese is the seat of the metropolitan see of the Province of Louisville, which encompasses the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The archdiocese is the second-oldest diocese west of the Appalachian Mountains, after the Archdiocese of New Orleans. As of 2023^[update], the archbishop of Louisville is Shelton Fabre.