Coat of arms of Mgr Dominique-Marie David

Dominique-Marie Jean Michel David (born 21 September 1963) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the

Archbishop of Monaco The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monaco ( la, Archidioecesis Monoecensis) is an exempt Latin ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Monaco, directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical prov ...

since 2021. He is a member of the

Emmanuel Community The Emmanuel Community is a Catholic association of the faithful of pontifical right, founded in 1972 by Pierre Goursat and Martine Lafitte-Catta, starting from a prayer group belonging to the Catholic charismatic renewal. History The Emmanuel ...

Biography

David was born on 21 September 1963 in

Beaupréau Beaupréau () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 15 December 2015, Andrezé, Beaupréau, La Chapelle-du-Genêt, Gesté, Jallais, La Jubaudière, Le Pin-en-Mauges, La Poitevinière, Saint-Philbert-en-Maug ...

Maine-et-Loire Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...

. After high school, he attended the

Université catholique de l'Ouest The Catholic University of the West (UCO; French: :fr:UCO, Université catholique de l'Ouest), known colloquially to its students as «''la Catho''», is a university located in Angers, France. History Early in the 11th century this school beca ...

in Angers, graduating with a degree in English philology. He worked as an English teacher. He entered the

and was sent as a seminarian to the Saint-Paul Interdiocesan Seminary in

Louvain-la-Neuve Louvain-la-Neuve (, French for ''New Leuven''; wa, Li Noû Lovén) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was ...

, Belgium, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theology from the

Université catholique de Louvain The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...

. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Nantes on 29 June 1991. Throughout his career he has combined parish assignments in his diocese with responsibilities within the Emmanuel Community. He was vicar of the parish of Sautron in the Diocese of Nantes from 1991 to 1995; led the liturgical service of the Emmanuel Community from 1995 to 2001; was responsible for the formation of seminarians at the Community's Maison Saint-Martin in Paris from 1997 to 2001; was administrator of the Saint-Diversien parish in Nantes in 2001-2002; was parish priest of the Sainte-Madeleine parish there from 2002 to 2009; headed the ordained ministers and seminarians of the Community from 2009 to 2016; was Rector of the

Trinità dei Monti The church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called merely the Trinità dei Monti ( French: ''La Trinité-des-Monts''), is a Roman Catholic late Renaissance titular church in Rome, central Italy. It is best known for its position above ...

church in Rome from 2016 to 2019; and a member of the team of formators of the Saint-Jean Interdiocesan Seminary in Nantes beginning in 2019.

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. ...

appointed him Archbishop of Monaco on 21 January 2020. He visited Monaco for the first time later that month; the Emmanuel Community has no presence there. As his episcopal motto he chose "We know and rely on the love God has for us" (1 John 4:16). He received his episcopal consecration on 8 March 2020 from his predecessor in Monaco,

Bernard Barsi Bernard César Augustin Barsi (4 August 1942 – 28 December 2022) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was the archbishop of Monaco from 2000 to 2020. Biography Barsi was born on 4 August 1942 in Nice, France. He was ordained a prie ...

. The co-consecrators were Archbishop

Jean-Paul James Jean-Paul James (born 14 July 1952) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Bordeaux in November 2019 after serving from 2003 to 2009 as Bishop of Beauvais and from 2009 to 2019 as Bishop of Nantes. Biography Jean- ...

of Bordeaux, formerly Bishop of Nantes, and Bishop

Yves Le Saux Yves Le Saux (born 1960) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Le Mans from 2009 to 2022. He has been appointed bishop of Annecy. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community. Biography Yves Le Saux was born on 24 December 1960 ...

of Le Mans, a member of the Emmanuel Community.

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