Joseph-Marie Sardou, S.C.J. (25 October 1922 – 19 September 2009) was a French

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archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 12 May 1949, Sardou was appointed Archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese 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 ...

, by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

on 31 May 1985 and was ordained a bishop on 30 September 1985. Archbishop Sardou retired on 16 May 2000, and died on 19 September 2009. His successor was

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 ...

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