Matthieu Rougé

Coat of arms of Matthieu Marie Jean Rougé

Matthieu Marie Jean Rougé (born January 7, 1966 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France ) is a French clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Nanterre .

Life

Matthieu Rougé entered the Paris seminary in 1985 and began his studies at the Université catholique de Louvain . He continued his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and was a seminarian at the French Pontifical Seminary . After being ordained as a deacon on September 19, 1993 by Auxiliary Bishop Albert Rouet , he received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Paris on June 25, 1994 from Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger .

After ordination, he continued his studies in Rome until 1996 and then in Paris until 1998. In 1999 he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD . After a brief activity as chaplain, he was personal secretary to Archbishop Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2012 he was rector of the Basilica Sainte Clothilde and then went to the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid for a sabbatical year . Since 2013 he has been pastor of Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes and dean as well as a teacher at various schools. In 2007 he was made the canon of honor at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral .

On June 5, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Nanterre . The episcopal ordination received his his predecessor Michel Aupetit , now Archbishop of Paris, on 16 September of the same year. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes , Nicolas Brouwet , and the Bishop of Digne , Jean-Philippe Nault . In 2019 he was a guest on Raphaël Enthoven's television program .

Web links

• Entry on Matthieu Rougé on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nomina del Vescovo di Nanterre (Francia). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 5, 2018, accessed June 5, 2018 (Italian). 
2. ↑ https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/092170-002-A/philosophie/

predecessor	Office	successor
Michel Aupetit	Bishop of Nanterre since 2018	---