Jacques Gaillot

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Jacques Gaillot, 2011

Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Gaillot (born September 11, 1935 in Saint-Dizier ) was Catholic Bishop of Évreux for 13 years . After a conflict with the Vatican and his impeachment , he has been titular bishop of Partenia and internet minister since 1995 .

Life

Beginnings

Jacques Gaillot was on September 11, 1935 in Saint-Dizier in the southern Champagne, the son of a wine merchant's family was born and went to the middle school, the seminary of Langres . From 1957 to 1959 he made in Algeria the military service , who confronted him with the violence of war. This experience aroused in him a willingness to be non-violent and aroused a deep friendship with the Algerians.

From 1960 to 1962 he stayed for postgraduate theology studies in Rome in order to obtain a licentiate . In March 1961 he was ordained a priest . From 1962 to 1964 further studies took place in Paris at the Institut supérieur de Liturgie . Gaillot taught at the Grand Séminaire of Châlons-en-Champagne . From 1965 to 1972 he taught at the Regional Seminar of Reims in the context of the implementation of the innovations of the Second Vatican Council .

In 1973 he was appointed pastor in his hometown of Saint-Dizier. At the same time he was jointly responsible for the training of the priestly formators in Paris at the Institut de formation des éducateurs du clergé (IFEC). In 1977 he became vicar general of the diocese of Langres , and in 1981 he was elected vicar capitular.

Bishop of Evreux

On May 5, 1982 Gaillot was appointed Bishop of Évreux. The episcopal ordination took place on June 20, 1982, the Bishop of Langres, Léon Aimé Taverdet , assisted by the co- consecrators Jean Vilnet , Bishop of Lille , and Archbishop Joseph Duval of Rouen .

Jacques Gaillot campaigned publicly for various people and issues:

  • In 1983 he supported a young man in court in Évreux who had refused to do military service on grounds of conscience.
  • At the annual meeting of French bishops in October 1983, he and another bishop voted against a text by the episcopate on nuclear deterrence.
  • In 1985 he sympathized with the Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied territories and met the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Tunis .
  • He attended an extraordinary UN meeting on disarmament.
  • In July 1987, he visited a young anti-apartheid activist from Evreux in South Africa, who had been sentenced to four years in prison by the Pretoria regime.
  • In November 1988 in the pilgrimage town of Lourdes , he secretly advocated the ordination of married men at a plenary meeting of French bishops.
  • In October 1989, on a trip by the peace movement to French Polynesia, he campaigned for the nuclear weapon tests to be stopped.
  • In 1991 he published the book "Open letter to those who preach war, but let others wage it", in which he rejected the 2nd Gulf War and the economic blockade against Iraq.
  • He held a three-year synod and wrote about a dozen books. The book Coup de gueule contre l'exclusion (protest cry against the exclusion) attracted particular attention as a sharp criticism of the immigration laws of the then Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and was later named by the Vatican as the main reason for his removal.

On January 13, 1995, Gaillot was allegedly replaced by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Évreux and transferred to the titular seat of Partenia under pressure from the French government, in particular from the Interior Minister Charles Pasqua . About 50,000 Catholics from all over France traveled to his farewell service in Évreux in 300 buses and three special trains.

Since the withdrawal

Bishop Gaillot initially announced that he would actually go to this place in what is now Algeria and continue his work from there; However, due to the political situation in Algeria, he soon withdrew from it. He then revived the diocese, which perished in the 5th century, as the "Diocese without borders" on the Internet . With the help of modern means of communication, he communicates with people all over the world over the Internet from his monastery in Paris .

Bishop Gaillot works in Paris for foreigners who do not have valid residence papers (“ sans-papiers ”), for homeless families and for young unemployed people.

On the occasion of the invitation to an ecumenical meeting with the bishops in May 2000, the President of the French Bishops' Conference wrote in an open letter to Gaillot: “It is important that Catholics and the public in general know that we are indeed united by a fraternal bond if this bond is also lived in a special way. "

In 2004, Gaillot was twice banned from appearing in his diocese by Cardinal Joachim Meisner , which Gaillot complied with in so far as he was present at at least one of the two dates but did not give a lecture. In 2012 Gaillot gave a lecture at the Museum Schnütgen at the invitation of the Karl Rahner Academy in Cologne .

On September 1, 2015, Gaillot had a private audience with Pope Francis . The meeting was described as "a face-to-face meeting of two men united by their feelings and commitment to the poor". A year earlier, Bishop Gaillot wrote to the Pope asking for support.

Fonts

  • Ils m'ont donné tant de bonheur. Entretiens avec Gwendoline Jarczyk . Declée de Brouwer, 1986, ISBN 2-220-02607-8 .
  • A church that does not serve serves nothing! Experiences of a bishop . With the collaboration of Catherine Guigon. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1990, ISBN 3-451-21988-3 .
    • Review by Manfred Hermanns . In: Yearbook for Youth Social Work. 12. Vol. Cologne: Die Heimstatt 1991, pp. 342-344.
  • Open letter to those who preach war but let others wage it. 1991.
  • Le monde crie, l'église murmure . Syros Alternatives Publishing House, 1991, ISBN 2-86738-609-8 .
  • Foi without frontieres. Desclée de Brouwer, 1991, ISBN 2-220-02688-4 .
  • Follow his love. Way of the Cross and Resurrection. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 1992, ISBN 3-451-22383-X .
  • Paroles sans frontières . Desclée de Brouwer, 1993, ISBN 2-220-03369-4 .
  • Monseigneur des autres . Seuil Verlag, 1993, ISBN 9782020107174 .
  • L'année de tous les dangers: Étranger et droit d'asile . Ramsay, 1994, ISBN 2-84114-008-3 .
  • What heb je met je broeder gedaan? Averbode Publishing House, 1994.
  • What matters to me is the person. 2nd Edition. Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1995, ISBN 3-451-08831-2 .
  • La rumeur d'un peuple , Austral Verlag, February 1, 1995, ISBN 2-84112-023-6 .
  • Coup de gueule against l'exclusion. 1995.
  • with Jean-Baptiste Eyraud: Monsieur le Président, expulsez la misère! Robert Laffont Verlag, 1995, ISBN 2-221-08087-4 .
  • Lettera agli amici di Partenia. Queriniana, 1996, ISBN 88-399-0973-7 .
  • You are the people. 2nd Edition. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 1996, ISBN 3-451-23889-6 .
  • Voice from the Desert, A Bishop's Cry for a New Church , The Crossroad Publishing Company 1996, ISBN 0-8245-1584-6 .
  • with Eugen Drewermann (co-author), Peter Eicher (ed.): The dream of humanity. Conversations . Verlag Kösel, 1997, ISBN 3-466-20418-6 .
  • Bud, you carry the strength to blossom . Edition K. Haller, 1997, ISBN 3-905585-01-4 .
  • La dernière tentation du diable . Verlag Edition 1, 1998, ISBN 2-86391-825-7 .
  • Je prends la liberté: Entretiens avec Jean-Claude Raspiengeas. Flammarion, 1999, ISBN 2-08-067166-9 .
  • EGLISE VIRTUELLE, EGLISE DE L'AN 2000. Un évêque au royaume d'Internet . Editions Albin Michel, 1999, ISBN 2-226-10673-1 .
  • Powerless but free. Edition K. Haller, 2002, ISBN 3-905585-03-0 .
  • with Eugen Drewermann: Dialogue sur le parvis: Entre un évêque et un théorien . Desclée de Brouwer, 2002, ISBN 2-220-03767-3 .
  • Carnets de vie . Publisher: Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2010, ISBN 978-2-35013-219-8 .
  • A catechism that breathes freedom. with Alice Gombault and Pierre de Locht. Edition K. Haller 2004, ISBN 3-905585-04-9 .
  • Out and about in Partenia with Bishop Jacques Gaillot. Edition Haller, May 2000, ISBN 3-905585-02-2 .
  • with Alice Gombault and Claude Bernad: La Bible à livre ouvert: Nouvelles lectures des écrits saints . Publisher: Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2011, ISBN 978-2-35013-261-7 .
  • Quand on aime, il ne fait jamais nuit . Editions Mordicus, 2011, ISBN 978-2-918414-49-0 .

literature

  • Christophe Wargny: The world screams, the church whispers. Jacques Gaillot, a bishop challenges . Herder, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-451-23075-5 .
  • Christophe Wargny: Jacques Gaillot: Biography. Syros Publishing House, 1995, ISBN 2-84146-189-0 .
  • Jean-Marie Muller: Guy Riobé, Jacques Gaillot: Portraits croisés . Desclée de Brouwer, 1996, ISBN 2-220-03801-7 .
  • Pierre Pierrard: A nous la parole: Partenia, dix ans . Harmattan 2012, Kindle Edition, ISBN 9782296409392 .
  • Roland Breitenbach (ed.) Freedom will make you come true. in collaboration with Katharina Haller and Christian Modehn, Reimund Maier Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-926300-64-5

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predecessor Office successor
Jean Honoré Bishop of Evreux
1982–1995 		Jacques David
José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán Bishop of the titular diocese of Partenia
since January 13, 1995 		-

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.partenia.org/deutsch/biographie_ger.htm
  2. ↑ Reimar Oltmanns: Both legs firmly in the clouds . In: taz , August 5, 1995, p. 23.
  3. ↑ Bishop Gaillot has already banned Meisner's two appearances , Handelsblatt, October 25, 2004, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ The quiet rebel. Bishop Jaques Gaillot, deposed from office in Cologne . Domradio, May 25, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Vatican Radio: Suspended Bishop Gaillot with Pope Francis
  6. ^ Entry on Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Gaillot on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved May 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gaillot, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaillot, Jacques Jean Edmond Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, titular bishop of Partenia and emeritus bishop of Évreux
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Dizier