Henri Mazerat

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Henri Mazerat (born August 1, 1903 in Saint-Amand-Montrond , † September 14, 1986 in Paris ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop.

life and career

Engineer, priest and prisoner of war

Mazerat went to school in Bourges . He graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and studied at the Technical University of École Centrale (graduated in 1926). He entered the St. Sulpice Seminary in Paris and was ordained a priest in 1932. He was drafted as a chaplain in Nanterre in 1939, did military service as an artillery officer and spent five years as a prisoner of war in camps in Austria and Poland.

Pastor in Paris, bishop in Toulon and Angers

From 1945 he was chaplain in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. In 1958 he was appointed pastor of his parish in quick succession, then coadjutor (with successor right) to the aged bishop of Fréjus-Toulon . As such, he made a contribution to the victims of the dam collapse of Fréjus in the winter of 1959-1960 . In June 1960 he was officially appointed bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, but already moved to the diocese of Angers in February 1962 .

In Angers he implemented the decisions of the Second Vatican Council , in which he himself had participated. Because of Parkinson's disease he abdicated in 1974 and retired to the Paris home of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor , where he died in 1986 at the age of 83. His episcopal motto was: Cum fide et dilectione (With faith and love).

Works

  • (with others) La liberté évangélique. Principes et pratique. Cinquième congrès national des prêtres chargés de religieuses, Angers, 15–17 June 1964 . Cerf, Paris 1965.

literature

  • Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Editions du Lau 2017, pp. 194–197.

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personal data
SURNAME Mazerat, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Amand-Montrond
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1986
Place of death Paris