Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (born 18 December 1959) is a French prelate of the
Catholic Church
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who serves as the
archbishop of Poitiers since 2012. He was previously the apostolic administrator of the same diocese from 2011 to 2012, where he also served as an auxiliary bishop from 2007 until 2011, holding the title of the titular bishop of
Rusadir
Rusadir was an ancient Punic and Roman town at what is now Melilla, Spain, in northwest Africa. Under the Roman Empire, it was a colony in the province of Mauretania Tingitana.
Name
( xpu, 𐤓𐤔𐤀𐤃𐤓) was a Punic name meaning ...
during the same period.
Wintzer was ordained a priest on 27 June 1987 in
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...
. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of
Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglome ...
and the titular bishop of
Rusadir
Rusadir was an ancient Punic and Roman town at what is now Melilla, Spain, in northwest Africa. Under the Roman Empire, it was a colony in the province of Mauretania Tingitana.
Name
( xpu, 𐤓𐤔𐤀𐤃𐤓) was a Punic name meaning ...
on 2 April 2007. His episcopal consecration took place on 19 May 2007, and was consecrated by then archbishop of Poitiers
Albert Rouet. The co-consecrators were the archbishop of
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...
Jean-Charles Descubes and Archbishop Emeritus
Joseph Duval
Joseph Marie Louis Duval (11 October 1928 – 23 May 2009) was the French Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen.
Born in Chênex, Duval was ordained to the priesthood on 8 June 1953. On 14 May 1974 Pope Paul VI ap ...
of Rouen.
After the Descubes' retirement on 12 February 2011, Wintzer was appointed the apostolic administrator of Poitiers the same day. He was appointed the archbishop of Poitiers on 13 January 2012.
In March 2019, he became the first from the French Catholic hierarchy to publicly support the idea of ordaining married men. Wintzer explained that ordaining married men would help the clergy to bring them back to "ordinary humanity", and saw it as a helpful tool in combating sexual abuse that exists among the parts of the Catholic clergy.
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1959 births
Living people
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI
Bishops of Poitiers
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France