Géry Leuliet

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Géry-Jacques-Charles Leuliet (born January 12, 1910 in Richebourg , Pas-de-Calais , France , † January 1, 2015 in Arras ) was Bishop of Amiens .

Life

Leuliet was ordained a priest on July 8, 1933 in Arras in northern France. After the end of the Second World War, he was initially a professor and superior , and from 1951 rector of the priestly college in Saint-Pierre in Calais ( Collège Saint-Pierre à Calais ). He was also dean of Notre Dame in Calais. In 1953 he was appointed head of the diocesan administration by Victor-Jean Perrin , Bishop of Arras . He was vicar general and archdeacon for the rural diocese. He was committed to thatCatholic action .

On February 14, 1963 he was by John XXIII. appointed Bishop of Amiens . The bishop of Arras, Gérard Huyghe , donated him episcopal ordination on May 9, 1963. Co- consecrators were René Stourm , Archbishop of Sens , and Victor-Jean Perrin , Bishop Emeritus of Arras. He was the council father of the second to fourth session of the Second Vatican Council . After the end of the council he became involved in the decisions of Vatican II and worked closely with the Mission de France as well as Paul Clabaut and Pierre Ysebe .

Pope John Paul II granted his age-related resignation on January 15, 1985. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council in 2012, Leuliet expressed the wish that the Catholic Church would implement the Council's resolutions even more strongly.

Since the death of the Vietnamese Bishop Antoine Nguyên Van Thien in May 2012, Leuliet has been the oldest bishop of the Catholic Church. Géry Leuliet last lived in a retirement home in Arras. He died there on January 1, 2015, a few days before his 105th birthday.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Mgr Géry Leuliet, doyen de l'épiscopat mondial
  2. ↑ Le doyen des évêques est un Français , Le Figaro.fr , accessed on January 12, 2014
  3. ↑ Elder Catholic bishop died  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kathisch.de , January 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.katholisch.de  
predecessor Office successor
René Stourm Bishop of Amiens
1963–1985 		François Bussini


personal data
SURNAME Leuliet, Géry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuliet, Géry-Jacques-Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Amiens (1963–1985)
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Richebourg , France
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2015
Place of death Arras