Marc Marie Max Aillet (born 17 April 1957) has been the bishop of Bayonne since 30 November 2008. He had previously served as

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of the

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Biography

Aillet was born in 1957 in Parakou,

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. He studied classics in

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. He entered the Medicine faculty for a year before entering the major seminary in

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. He was ordained a priest on 3 July 1982 for the diocese of Genoa by Cardinal

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. He was a student at the University of Friburg, where he completed a licence in

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with a thesis entitled: "Lire la Bible avec saint Thomas – Le passage de la "lettera" à la "res" dans la Somme Théologique". He returned to France where he was incardinated in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon where he worked as a chaplain at the college of Saint-Raphaël. He served as a professor of moral theology in the major seminary of Toulon from 1985-1992. After this, he was responsible for the formation of priestly students in the diocese of Blois. He served as parish priest of Saint-Raphaël from 1998–2002 and since 2001 he served as an

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and from 2002 vicar general of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. He was elected

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in 2003. He was appointed as the bishop of Bayonne by Pope Benedict on 15 October 2008Press Office of the Holy See
/ref> and was consecrated and installed on 30 November 2008 with Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard,

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as his Principal Consecrator with Bishop Pierre Jean Marie Marcel Molères and Bishop Dominique Marie Jean Rey of Fréjus-Toulon serving as the principal co-consecrators. Bishop Aillet wishes to increase the number of

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es in his diocese and established a weekly Latin Mass in Bayonne. He celebrated ordinations in the church of Saint-Eloi, Bordeaux, personal parish of the Institute of the Good Shepherd in January 2010. In April 2010, Bishop Aillet gave a talk entitled The Wounded Liturgy in which he described the "desacralisation" of the

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. On 21 March 2017, it was reported on the television channe
France 2
and b
Mediapart
that Bishop Marc Aillet had been concealing for six years the existence of a pedophile priest in his diocese. On 23 March, the bisho
gave an interview
also reported i
''La République des Pyrénées''
in which he admitted the facts, and provided an explanation. The interview was also reported on 23 March 2017 b

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The Wounded Liturgy
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