Armand Maillard (born 18 June 1943,

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) is a French

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of the

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who served as the

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. He was appointed to that position by

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on 11 September 2007, succeeding Archbishop

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. The new archbishop, who also received the honorary title of patriarch and primate of Aquitaine, was greeted in his

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on 14 October and took his seat in the presence of the

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of the province: Archbishops Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tours; André Fort,

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;

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; Maurice de Germiny,

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Career

He completed theological studies at the Strasbourg Faculty of Catholic Theology from 1967 to 1971. He holds two licenses, the first in letters (in German) and the second in theology. He was ordained a priest on 28 June 1970. He was assigned responsibility in 1976 throughout the diocese for catechesis, and was named head of the permanent diaconate. He continued to also be a chaplain in

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s. From 1987 to 1996 he was secretary of the Apostolic East region. He was named Bishop of Laval by

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on 2 August 1996, and consecrated by the Archbishop of Aix,

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, on 5 October.Église catholique en Berry: Diocèse de Bourges
Mgr Maillard
retrieved: 2017-05-15. He was

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from 2007 until July 2018. In this role he helped the

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obtain the definitive recognition of their statutes in 2011. Within the Bishops' Conference of France, he was a member of the Commission of ordained ministries.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maillard, Armand 1943 births Living people Archbishops of Bourges People from Vosges (department) 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Knights of the Legion of Honour