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Florent Du Bois de Villerabel, archbishop of Aix, Arles & Embrun (1921 - 1944) was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who in the aftermath of the Liberation were obliged to submit their resignations for acceptance by Pope Pius XII. Higher figures had been mooted but the diplomatic skills of the nuncio, [[Cardinal Roncalli]] reduced the numbers involved to this figure coupled with the appointment of a coadjutor to Msgr. Serrand, bishop of St. Brieuc and Tréquier , the exclusion of the current archbishops of Reims and Bordeaux from any future appointments as cardinals. |
Florent Du Bois de Villerabel, archbishop of Aix, Arles & Embrun (1921 - 1944) was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who in the aftermath of the Liberation were obliged to submit their resignations for acceptance by Pope Pius XII. Higher figures had been mooted but the diplomatic skills of the nuncio, [[Cardinal Roncalli]] reduced the numbers involved to this figure coupled with the appointment of a coadjutor to Msgr. Serrand, bishop of St. Brieuc and Tréquier , the exclusion of the current archbishops of Reims and Bordeaux from any future appointments as cardinals. |
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Florent de Villerabel had been consecrated by his cousin, André Du Bois de Villerabel, bishop of Amiens, subsequently Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy, a post from which it was thought fit he should resign in 1936 following a case of embezzlement by a priest on his staff. |
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Florent Du Bois de Villerabel, archbishop of Aix, Arles & Embrun (1921 - 1944) was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who in the aftermath of the Liberation were obliged to submit their resignations for acceptance by Pope Pius XII. Higher figures had been mooted but the diplomatic skills of the nuncio, Cardinal Roncalli reduced the numbers involved to this figure coupled with the appointment of a coadjutor to Msgr. Serrand, bishop of St. Brieuc and Tréquier , the exclusion of the current archbishops of Reims and Bordeaux from any future appointments as cardinals.
Florent de Villerabel had been consecrated by his cousin, André Du Bois de Villerabel, bishop of Amiens, subsequently Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy, a post from which it was thought fit he should resign in 1936 following a case of embezzlement by a priest on his staff.
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Etienne Fouilloux (ed.); Angelo Roncalli, Journal de France t.1, 2006