Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas Perron (12 January 1925 – 6 May 2021) was a French

prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Minister (Christianity), Christian clergy who is an Ordinary (church officer), ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which me ...

of the

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. He served as bishop of

Djibouti Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area ...

from 1992 until his retirement in 2001. Georges Perron was born on January 12, 1925, as the second in a family of six children. He entered the

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the ...

, did his profession in 1945 and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1951 in the

Nantes Cathedral Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (), is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years ...

. In 1955, he turned as a

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Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

appointed him bishop of

in Africa on November 21, 1992. On March 14, 1993, Perron was consecrated a bishop. He was bishop of

until his retirement age on March 13, 2001. After his retirement, he returned to France.Georges Perron
on ''catholicchurch-holyland.com'' He died in

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

, France on 6 May 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perron, Georges 1925 births 2021 deaths Capuchin bishops French Roman Catholic bishops in Africa People from Maine-et-Loire Roman Catholic bishops of Djibouti French expatriates in Ethiopia