Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe was a 20th-century French

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

Bishop. Born 31 August 1909 in Fives-Lille, France, he was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

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on 29 June 1933. Consecrated Bishop: 4 November 1962. He was

Bishop of Arras The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Atrebatensis (–Bononiena–Audomarensis)''; French: ''Diocèse d'Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer)'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church i ...

(France) for almost 40 years from December 1961 to September 1984. He died in October 2001 aged 91 years. He was an attendee at Vatican 2.Andrew Chandler, Charlotte
Hansen Observing Vatican II
' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) page 178

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Bishops of Arras 1909 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in France {{France-bishop-stub