Albert Rouet

Albert Jean-Marie Rouet (born January 28, 1936 in Thenay , Indre department , France ) is a French clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Poitiers .

Life

Albert Rouet received on 23 March 1963 by the Bishop of Saint-Die , Archbishop Emile-Arsène Blanchet , the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Paris . In 1983 he was appointed Vicar General of the Archbishop of Paris.

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Obbi and auxiliary bishop in Paris on June 21, 1986 . The episcopal ordination received his Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger of the same year on September 2; Co- consecrators were Daniel Pézeril , auxiliary bishop in Paris, and Émile Marcus PSS , bishop of Nantes .

On December 16, 1993, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Poitiers . After the death of Joseph Rozier , he succeeded him on June 12, 1994 in the office of Bishop of Poitiers. After John Paul II raised the diocese of Poitiers to an archbishopric on December 16, 2002, Rouet became its first archbishop.

On February 12, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. his resignation request submitted for reasons of age.

In 2014 he was awarded the Herbert Haag Prize in recognition of his “prophetic courage” with which he entrusted women and men with responsibility for the local communities in the Archdiocese of Poitiers .

Fonts

• Departure for togetherness: how the church can again be able to enter into dialogue; a conversation with Dennis Gira. Translated from French, set up and given an appreciation by Thomas Philipp. Freiburg, Br .; Basel; Vienna: Herder 2012 ISBN 978-3-451-34156-4

Web links

• Entry on Albert Rouet on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert-Haag-Stiftung: Award ceremony 2014, all texts: wording of the award certificates , accessed on March 20, 2014.

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Rozier	Bishop of Poitiers 1994–2002	...
...	Archbishop of Poitiers 2002–2011	Pascal Wintzer