Gérard Denis Auguste Defois

Gérard Denis Auguste Defois, born 5 January 1931 in Nueil-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire (France), is a French Catholic priest of the Diocese of Angers, Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre and then of Reims and finally of Lille ( arrondissements of Lille and Dunkerque) that he left in 2008.[1]

He was also a lecturer at Notre-Dame de Paris for a few years he is also a writer on theology.

Prior to the 1997 legislative elections, he made a statement that politics is everyone's business: "God has entrusted the earth to all mankind. It forces us to humanize it ".[2]

He has been decorated an Officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the National Order of Merit.

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2017-09-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. https://www.humanite.fr/1997-05-03_Articles_-Mgr-Gerard-Defois-La-politique-affaire-de-tous
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