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Archbishop Michel Aupetit

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Catholic archbishop of Paris

December 02, 2021

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit on Thursday amid a controversy surrounding an alleged prior relationship with a woman before he was archbishop of Paris. A statement from the Holy See press office on Dec. 2 said that Pope Francis accepted the resignation submitted by Aupetit and had appointed Archbishop Georges Pontier, archbishop emeritus

French Catholics fast and pray in response to controversial Bioethics bill

January 15, 2021

French Bishops launched the campaign to tackle the “widespread blindness to the dignity of every human being” represented by the new law

New Archbishop of Paris urges faithful to recognise dignity of ‘the weakest, poorest and most fragile’

January 07, 2018

Archbishop Michel Aupetit is installed at Mass in Notre-Dame Cathedral

Paris’s new archbishop has a very unconventional background

December 12, 2017

Is this a sign of the direction in which Pope Francis is taking the Church?

Pope Francis makes two major episcopal appointments

December 07, 2017

The Pope named the new archbishops of Paris and Mexico City