François-Marie Velut

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François-Marie Velut (OCart.) (* 1948 as Michael Velut) is a French monk and former Minister General of the Carthusian Order .

Life

Michael Velut comes from Champagne and was taught in the small seminar in Troyes. He studied at the Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute in Paris and received his doctorate with a thesis on “The concept of the person in the Christological controversy of the 4th and 5th centuries”. In 1970 he joined the Taizé Community . In 1989 he became a novice in the Grande Chartreuse and made his solemn profession in 1996. There he became the representative of the prior of the mother house. On June 4, 2001, he was elected to succeed Etienne Descamps and prior of the Charterhouse of Portes in Benonces in the Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France . In 2012 he was elected prior of the Grande Chartreuse and confirmed by the other priors. He was thus General Minister of the Carthusian Order and 73rd successor to St. Bruno of Cologne . After two years he asked the Pope to release him from his office for health reasons. This was also granted. He was succeeded by Dysmas de Lassus .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BRUNONIS. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ New General of the Carthusian Order elected . ( kath.net [accessed October 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Velut, François-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Velut, Michael (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French monk; General Minister of the Carthusian Order
DATE OF BIRTH 1948