Éric Aumonier (bishop)

He was born in Paris on 22 February 1947, one of his parents' three sons. He earned a licenciate in philosophy and a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University while living at the French Seminary in Rome.[1] He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Paris on 2 July 1971.[2]

During the next thirty years he worked in the Archdiocese as an assistant parish priest, professor at the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Issy-les Molineaux from 1977 to 1981, a delegate of the Archbishop for the Parisian seminaries from 1981 to 1984, the Superior of the Maison Saint-Augustin in Paris from 1984 to 1990, the Superior of the diocesan Seminary of Paris from 1990 to 1996, and a member of the Episcopal Council.[2][3]

Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Malliana and an auxiliary bishop of Paris on 12 July 1996.[4] He was consecrated a bishop on 11 October of that year[2] by the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger; the co-consecrators were the Secretary for Relations with States in the Vatican Secretariat of State, Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, André Vingt-Trois.

On 11 January 2001, Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Versailles.[2] He led a diocesan synod in 2010.[3] Within the French Episcopal Conference he was a member of the commission for ordained ministry and the laity in service to the Church.[3]

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 17 December 2020.[5] Aumonier said he had submitted his resignation a few weeks earlier than his 75th birthday as required because he lacked "sufficient energy" to continue as bishop.[1]

• Catholic Church in France
• List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France

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