Jean-Pierre Batut
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Jean-Pierre Batut (born Paris 3 July 1954) is a French
bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
and theologian. Appointed bishop of
Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher Departments of France, department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the mos ...
(22 November 2014) and installed there on 11 January 2015, he served in the Issy-lès-Moulineaux seminary near Paris, and as Curé of Ste. Jeanne de Chantal church in the XVIe Arrondissement of Paris before being appointed auxiliary bishop in
Lyons Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
(with the title of Ressiana).


Career

Hitherto best known as a theologian, his doctoral thesis explored the doctrine of divine
omnipotence Omnipotence is the property of possessing maximal power. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to the deity of their faith. In the monotheistic religious philosophy of Abrahamic religions, omnipotence is often listed as ...
in
patristic Patristics, also known as Patrology, is a branch of theological studies focused on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers, between the 1st to 8th centuries CE. Scholars analyze texts from both orthodox and heretical authors. Patristics em ...
thought prior to the Council of Nicaea (325) and its publication in 2009 as '
Pantocrator In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator (, ) is a specific depiction of Christ. or , literally 'ruler of all', but usually translated as 'almighty' or 'all-powerful', is derived from one of many names of God in Judaism. The Pantokrator ...
' was well received. According to French and Italian newspaper reports his appointment as bishop of Metz in the
Concordat A concordat () is a convention between the Holy See and a sovereign state that defines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state in matters that concern both,René Metz, ''What is Canon Law?'' (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960 French Minister of Interior. A question on this point was asked in the French parliament on 22 October 2013 In April 2015 bishop Batut criticized President Hollande's reference to 'Egyptian citizens (ressortissants égyptiens) massacred in Libya', a euphemism followed abundantly in French official and journalistic sources and intended to avoid reference to Christians being killed but which has now been abandoned by the French élite. Since 9 September 2023 will be auxiliare bishop in Lyon. Pope Francis write him delegation on 26 June 2023.


Publication

Pantocrator."Dieu le Père tout-puissant" dans la théologie prénicéenne (Collection des Etudes Augustiniennes, série Antiquité 189, institut des Etudes Augustiniennes), Brepols 2009


See also

*
Catholic Church in France The Catholic Church in France, Gallican Church, or French Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. Established in the 2nd century in unbroken communion with the bishop of Rome, it was sometim ...
*
List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France The Catholic Church in France mainly comprises a Metropolitan Latin Church hierarchy, joint in a national episcopal conference, consisting of * fifteen ecclesiastical provinces, each under a Metropolitan Archdiocese (15) ** with a total of 80 suff ...


References

*
Conférence des évêques de France The Bishops' Conference of France () (CEF) is the national episcopal conference of the Bishop (Catholic Church), bishops of the Catholic Church in France. Presidents Presidents of the :fr:Assemblée des cardinaux et archevêques de France, Assem ...
, 2014/11/22 * La Croix, 2014/11/22 *
Le Républicain Lorrain ''Le Républicain Lorrain'' (; founded in 1919) is a daily regional French newspaper based in Metz. its daily circulation was 123,357. In 2020, its circulation amounted to 87,508 copies. The newspaper has its primary market in the ''région ...
, 2013/10/08 * le Loir, 04/2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Batut, Jean-Pierre 1954 births Living people Auxiliary bishops of Lyon 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in France La-croix.com, 26/06/2023