Pope Francis appointed priest Étienne Guillet, a 48-year-old priest of the Versailles clergy, as the new Bishop of Saint-Denis. In 2025, the year of the Jubilee of the entire Catholic Church, he will receive episcopal consecration and become the youngest bishop in France.
The French Episcopal Conference indicated in its website that Bishop Étienne Guillet will receive episcopal consecration on February 15, 2025 in a Mass to be celebrated in the Saint-Denis Cathedral.
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According Catholic-Hierarchyspecialized in the bishops of the world, the youngest bishop of France until now was Mons. Grégoire Drouot, Bishop of Nevers, also 48 years old, but born on March 6, 1976.
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The Press Office of Vatican reports that Bishop Étienne Guillet was born on October 28, 1976 in Abbeville, in the department of Somme, diocese of Amiens.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Ecole des hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord (School of Higher Commercial Studies of the North), and studied at the Seminary Saint-Sulpice d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, at the Institut Catholique de Paris and at the Seminaire des Carmes , also in Paris.
He was ordained a priest on June 25, 2006 for the Diocese of Versailles.
He has held, among others, the following positions: Vicar of the parishes of the Mantes-Sud group and Head of Youth Ministry of the Deanery of Mantes-la-Jolie (2007); Porcheville Juvenile Prison Chaplain (2008).
He has also been vicar of the Parish Group of Houilles and Carrières-sur-Seine and Head of the Diocesan Service for Formation (2012); Parish Priest of Saint-Georges, Head of the Chaplaincy of Public Education in Trappes (2015); and he was until now parish priest of Mantes-la-Jolie and Episcopal Vicar for Charity and Mission.
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