Joseph Marie Louis Duval (11 October 1928 – 23 May 2009) was the French

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Archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rothomagensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rouen'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the Arc ...

. Born in

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, Duval was ordained to the priesthood on 8 June 1953. On 14 May 1974

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appointed Duval auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo''; br, Arc'heskopti Roazhon, Dol ha Sant-Maloù) is a dioces ...

, and he was consecrated on 6 July 1974. On 5 June 1978 Pope Paul VI appointed Duval

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of Rouen and, on 6 May 1981, he became the archbishop. He retired on 16 October 2003. Archbishop Duval was concerned about the activities of Bishop

Jacques Gaillot Jacques Gaillot (; born 11 September 1935) is a French Catholic clergyman and social activist. He was Bishop of Évreux in France from 1982 to 1995. In 1995, Pope John Paul II removed him as head of his diocese because he publicly expressed cont ...

while archbishop.

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1928 births 2009 deaths People from Haute-Savoie Archbishops of Rouen 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France {{france-RC-bishop-stub