Jacques Gaillot Cleric

Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Gaillot (born 11 September 1935; About this sound pronunciation ; generally known in French as Monseigneur Gaillot) is a French Catholic clergyman and social activist. He was Bishop of Évreux in France from 1982 to 1995. In 1995, by decision of John Paul II'>Pope John Paul II, he was demoted to be Titular Bishop of Partenia, an extinct diocese, for having expressed too controversial and heterodox positions on religious, political and social matters.In reason of these views he earned the popular nickname of The Red Cleric.

Personal facts

Birth dateSeptember 11, 1935
Birth place
Champagne (historical province) , Saint-Dizier

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