Éric Aumonier (born 22 February 1946) is a French

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of the

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who was the

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from 2001 to 2020. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Paris for four years.

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He was born in Paris on 22 February 1947, one of his parents' three sons. He earned a licenciate in philosophy and a doctorate in theology at the

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while living at the French Seminary in Rome. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Paris on 2 July 1971. During the next thirty years he worked in the Archdiocese as an assistant parish priest, professor at the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Issy-les Molineaux from 1977 to 1981, a delegate of the Archbishop for the Parisian seminaries from 1981 to 1984, the Superior of the Maison Saint-Augustin in Paris from 1984 to 1990, the Superior of the diocesan Seminary of Paris from 1990 to 1996, and a member of the Episcopal Council.

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appointed him Titular Bishop of Malliana and an auxiliary bishop of Paris on 12 July 1996. He was consecrated a bishop on 11 October of that year by the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal

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; the co-consecrators were the Secretary for Relations with States in the Vatican Secretariat of State, Archbishop

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, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Paris,

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. On 11 January 2001, Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Versailles. He led a diocesan synod in 2010. Within the French Episcopal Conference he was a member of the commission for ordained ministry and the laity in service to the Church.

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accepted his resignation on 17 December 2020. Aumonier said he had submitted his resignation a few weeks earlier than his 75th birthday as required because he lacked "sufficient energy" to continue as bishop.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aumonier, Eric 1946 births Living people Pontifical Gregorian University alumni 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in France Auxiliary bishops of Paris Bishops of Versailles French Roman Catholic titular bishops 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in France French expatriates in Italy

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