Gérard Denis Auguste Defois

Gérard Denis Auguste Defois, born 5 January 1931 in Nueil-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire (France), is a French Catholic priest of the Diocese of Angers, Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre and then of Reims and finally of Lille ( arrondissements of Lille and Dunkerque) that he left in 2008.[1]

He was also a lecturer at Notre-Dame de Paris for a few years he is also a writer on theology.

Prior to the 1997 legislative elections, he made a statement that politics is everyone's business: "God has entrusted the earth to all mankind. It forces us to humanize it ".[2]

He has been decorated an Officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the National Order of Merit.

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