GASPIÈ. - A city in the Canadian province of Québec, and the seat of a diocese of the same name, located in the northeastern part of Lower Canada, between the St. Lawrence River and Chaleur Bay. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI on 5 May 1922, by the apostolic constitution *Praedécessorum nostrorum*, through the division of the diocese of Saint-Germain de Rimouski, of which it is now a suffragan.
It is divided into four deaneries (Bonaventure, G.-Sud, G.-Nord, and the Île de la Madeleine). It covers an area of 10,000 km² and has a population of approximately 94,370 inhabitants, of whom 75,944 are French-speaking Catholics and 9,000 English-speaking Catholics.
The diocese comprises 62 parishes, 1 mission, 75 churches and chapels served by 95 diocesan priests and 23 regular clergy, a seminary, 8 male religious communities, and 15 female religious communities. The cathedral is dedicated to Christ the King.