Marc-Armand Lallier
Marc-Armand Lallier (born December 3, 1906 in Paris , † January 11, 1988 there ) was a French Roman Catholic bishop . He last served as Archbishop of Besançon from 1966 until his resignation in 1980 .
Life
Lallier graduated from the Lycée Condorcet in 1923 and was involved with the scouts. After his military service he joined in 1927 in the seminary of Saint-Sulpice and received on 29 June 1932, the ordination by Jean Cardinal Verdier , at that time Archbishop of Paris . Immediately after his ordination he was appointed rector of the Saint-Sulpice seminary. In 1936 he became a chaplain in the student housing estate Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris . During the Second World War , Lallier was superior of the small seminary in Paris and protected, among other things, the student Jean-Marie Lustiger from Nazi persecution. During a raid in May 1941, in which Jewish children were also to be arrested, the student and resistance fighter Germaine Ribière Lallier asked to put these children in the seminar rooms. Lallier said that he supported Ribière's activities, but that the church seminaries were overcrowded.
Pope Pius XII appointed him on September 26, 1949 Bishop of Nancy-Toul . The episcopal ordination donated him on 28 October of the same year Maurice Feltin , Archbishop of Paris; Co - consecrators were Jean-Julien Weber , Bishop of Strasbourg , and Robert Picard de La Vacquerie , almsman of the troops in the French occupation zone . Lallier was appointed Archbishop of Marseille on September 28, 1956 . From 1962 to 1965 he participated as a council father at the Second Vatican Council .
Pope Paul VI appointed him on August 26, 1966 Archbishop of Besançon . From June 1971 to January 1972 Marc-Armand Lallier was also apostolic administrator of his old diocese of Nancy-Toul. From October 1977 he pushed the creation of a new diocese, as the number of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Besançon grew. This led to the establishment of the Belfort-Montbéliard diocese by Pope John Paul II on November 3, 1979.
On March 6, 1980, John Paul II accepted his resignation. Lallier retired to his hometown Paris, where he died in January 1988. He was buried in Besançon Cathedral.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Marcel-Marie Dubois |
Archbishop of Besançon 1966–1980 |
Lucien Daloz |
| Jean Delay |
Archbishop of Marseille 1956–1966 |
Georges Jacquot |
| Marcel Fleury |
Bishop of Nancy-Toul 1949–1956 |
Émile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lallier, Marc-Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1988 |
| Place of death | Paris |