Robert Wattebled

Robert Wattebled is the Bishop of Nîmes, France.[1] since 2001.

Nîmes Cathedral.

Biography

Robert Wattebled, was born on 5 June 1946 in Calais.[2] He Robert Wattebled held a degree in mathematics when he joined the Grand Arras seminar. Where he studied philosophy and theology in Lille and latter at the Catholic Institute of Paris. He earned a joint doctorate in theology at the Catholic Institute in Paris and the history of religions at the Paris-Sorbonne University–Sorbonne.

He was required to undertake a period of national service, where he was posted to Cameroon.[3] He was ordained on 26 May 1974 in the diocese of Arras where he served for 9 years as curate and pastor of Saint-Laurent-Blangy. He became episcopal vicar from 1990 to 1996, then vicar general.

He was Named bishop of Nîmes on 30 January 2001. Following the major floods in the Gard and its surroundings, Wattebled Archbishop called for generosity stating that "our fraternal solidarity is divine likeness ".[4] His Episcopal motto is "Because of Jesus, for many" and he was awarded a Knight of the Legion of Honor on 18 April 2014[5]

See also

References
  1. Robert Wattebled at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,954.
  3. http://www.portstnicolas.org.
  4. Wattlebled appelle a la fraternite solidare.
  5. Journal officiel de la République française, « Décret du 18 avril 2014 portant promotion et nomination » [archive, sur legifrance.gouv.fr, 20 avril 2014.
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