Jean-Pierre Batut (born Paris 3 July 1954) is a French

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and theologian. Appointed bishop of

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(22 November 2014) and installed there on 11 January 2015, he served in the Issy-lès-Moulineaux seminary near Paris, and as Curé of Ste. Jeanne de Chantal church in the XVI^e Arrondissement of Paris before being appointed auxiliary bishop in

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(with the title of Ressiana).

Career

Hitherto best known as a theologian, his doctoral thesis explored the doctrine of divine

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thought prior to the Council of Nicaea (325) and its publication in 2009 as '

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' was well received. According to French and Italian newspaper reports his appointment as bishop of Metz in the

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zone of Alsace-Moselle in eastern France in 2013 appears to have been overruled by the French Minister of Interior. A question on this point was asked in the French parliament on 22 October 2013 In April 2015 bishop Batut criticized President Hollande's reference to 'Egyptian citizens (ressortissants égyptiens) massacred in Libya', a euphemism followed abundantly in French official and journalistic sources and intended to avoid reference to Christians being killed but which has now been abandoned by the French élite. Since 9 September 2023 will be auxiliare bishop in Lyon. Pope Francis write him delegation on 26 June 2023.

Publication

Pantocrator."Dieu le Père tout-puissant" dans la théologie prénicéenne (Collection des Etudes Augustiniennes, série Antiquité 189, institut des Etudes Augustiniennes), Brepols 2009

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Le Républicain Lorrain ''Le Républicain Lorrain'' (founded in 1919) is a daily regional French newspaper based in Metz. As of 2012, its daily circulation was 123,357. In 2020, its circulation amounted to 87,508 copies. The newspaper has its primary market in the ''r ...

, 2013/10/08 * le Loir, 04/2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Batut, Jean-Pierre 1954 births Living people Auxiliary bishops of Lyon 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in France La-croix.com, 26/06/2023

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