Éric de Moulins-Beaufort (born 30 January 1962) is a French prelate of the
Catholic Church
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who has been a bishop since 2008 and the Archbishop of
Reims since 2018. He was elected president of the
Bishops' Conference of France
The Bishops' Conference of France (french: Conférence des évêques de France) (CEF) is the national episcopal conference of the bishops of the Catholic Church in France.
Presidents
Presidents of the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops of Fr ...
in 2019.
Life
Éric de Moulins-Beaufort was born on 30 January 1962 in
Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.
[ Descended from a noble family, his full name is Éric Marie de Moulins d'Amieu de Beaufort.
He completed his studies at the University of Economics Paris II, obtaining a degree in economics, and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, obtaining a diploma in political sciences. He entered the seminary, attended the Institut d’Etudes Théologiques in Brussels, then continued his studies in Rome, obtaining a licentiate in theology. He completed his studies at the Institut Catholique of Toulouse, gaining a doctorate with a thesis entitled “L’esprit de l'homme” ou la présence de Dieu en l'homme: Anthropologie et mystique selon Henri de Lubac.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1991.][
]Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...
named him auxiliary bishop of Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
and titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...
of Cresima on 21 May 2008.André Vingt-Trois
André Armand Vingt-Trois (; born 7 November 1942) is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 2005 to 2017, having previously served as Archbishop of Tours from 1999 to 2005. He was elevated to the cardi ...
, Archbishop of Paris.
In 2013 he became head of the doctrinal commission of the Bishops' Conference of France.
On 18 August 2018, Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
named him Archbishop of Reims, and he was installed there on 28 October.
On 14 March 2019, he participated in ceremonies inaugurating the Grand Mosque of Reims. When criticized for welcoming the growth of Islam in France, he wrote: "I would like Catholic men worried about the presence of Islam in our country to be as devoted to Mass or Eucharistic adoration as the men I saw at the mosque on a Thursday evening at the time of the prayer."
He was elected president of the Bishops' Conference of France on 3 April 2019.
References
External links
Les Évêques, le diocèse de Reims
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moulins-Beaufort (de), Eric
1962 births
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France
Archbishops of Reims
Auxiliary bishops of Paris
People from Landau