Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet was a 20th-century

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 ...

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from 1985 to 1998. Derouet was born on 28 November 1922 in Loiré, Maine-et-Loire. He was a French

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who was

. He was

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on 26 June 1948 and was

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of the parish of Saint-Serge in

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

. After this he became a teacher at the Lycée Notre-Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles in Angers and subsequently superior of the Our Lady of Good News 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 ...

from 1960 to 1970. In 1970, he became Bishop of Choletais and Bishop of Séez on 24 July 1971. On 10 October 1985, he became

. He was also member of the Standing Council of the French Episcopate from 1978 to 1984 and president of the Episcopal Commission of the Independent Milieus from 1985 to 1991, president of the Episcopal Commission of the Maritime World from 1992 to 1997 and then the head of ''

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'' from 1998 to 2001.Diocese of Arras–Boulogne–Saint-Omer
at GCatholic He died on 4 July 2004.

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