Posts Tagged ‘Catholic bishops of France’

Two burnt-out French bishops voluntarily become auxiliaries

Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Citing exhaustion from a demanding job, two French bishops have voluntarily been demoted to auxiliary bishop status in the latest sign of serious strains in the country’s episcopacy. Bishop Thierry Brac de la Perrière, 64, will move “to a less onerous and less exposed ministry” in his east-central home archdiocese of Lyon from Nevers in Read more

Governance, place of women in French synod report

Monday, June 20th, 2022

The Catholic bishops of France have written “a cover letter” to the national synthesis of the diocesan phase of the Synod on synodality. They produced a text that was significantly revised at the last minute to include calls for reform that emerged during months of consultations with the laity. The bishops approved the text during Read more