The Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The episcopal see is located in the city of Moulins. The diocese comprises all of the department of Allier in the region of Auvergne. The diocese was created in 1788, but the new bishop, although appointed, had not been recognised before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. The current bishop is Pascal Roland, appointed in 2003.

Under the Concordat of 11 June 1817 the diocese was re-established, from parts of the dioceses of Autun, Bourges, and Clermont-Ferrand, to cover the department of Allier. The first bishop was appointed in 1822, and in the same year the medieval collegiate church at Moulins was established as Moulins Cathedral, the seat of the diocese.

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• M. des Gallois de la Tour, vicar-general to the Bishop of Autun, was appointed Bishop of Moulins in 1788, but was not formally confirmed before the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789
• Antoine de La Grange de Pons 1822-1849
• Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé 1849-1893
• Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg 1893-1906 (appointed Archbishop of Rennes)
• Emile-Louis-Cornil Lobbedey 1906-1911 (appointed Bishop of Arras)
• Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Honoré Penon 1911-1926
• Jean-Baptiste-Auguste Gonon 1926-1942
• Georges-Clément-Joseph-Edouard Jacquin 1942-1956
• Francis-Albert Bougon 1956-1975
• André Bernard Michel Quélen 1975-1998
• Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin 1998-2002 (appointed Archbishop of Lyon)
• Pascal Roland 2003 onwards

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