André-Georges Bontems

André-Georges Bontems (born May 14, 1910 in Plombières-les-Bains , Département Vosges , France , † March 3, 1988 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges ) was Archbishop of Chambéry .

Life

Bontems, the son of a watchmaker from a small parish in Lorraine, studied at the seminary of Saint-Dié and at the University of Nancy and was ordained a priest on April 15, 1933 . He then worked as a professor of history in Autrey Abbey until 1948, before he was appointed superior there. In 1949 Bontems became an honorary canon of the diocese of Saint-Dié.

Pope John XXIII appointed him on September 13, 1960 Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne . The episcopal ordination donated him on 30 November of the same year Henri-René-Adrien Brault , Bishop of Saint-Die. Co -consecrators were Emile-Arsène Blanchet , titular archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia and former bishop of Saint-Dié, and Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley , bishop of Nancy-Toul . In 1961 he also took over the management of the Tarentaise diocese. From 1962 to 1965 he participated as a council father at the Second Vatican Council .

On April 26, 1966, Pope Paul VI. by decree, both dioceses, which were incorporated into the Archdiocese of Chambéry. At the same time he appointed Bontems as the new Archbishop of Chambéry. He held this office until his age-related resignation on May 14, 1985. From 1967 to 1976 he was also Superior of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, the Assumption of Mary and St. Bruno . After his retirement, André-Georges Bontems moved back to Saint-Dié, where he was still active as a hospital chaplain. He died of heart disease in 1988.

Web links

• Entry on André-Georges Bontems on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis de Bazelaire	Archbishop of Chambéry 1966–1985	Claude Feidt