Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, OFM (31 December 1920 – 20 September 2016) was a French

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of the

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. Chabbert was born in Castres and ordained a priest on 29 June 1947 in the

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religious order of the

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. Chabbert was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Rabat, in Morocco, as well as titular bishop of Quaestoriana on 13 April 1967 and was consecrated bishop on 7 July 1967; he succeeded to that see in 1968. Chabbert was then appointed bishop of the Diocese of Perpignan-Elne on 17 July 1982, and served there until his retirement on 16 January 1996. Chabbert died on 20 September 2016 at the age of 95.

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Perpignan-Elne Diocese
(French) 1920 births 2016 deaths People from Castres French Roman Catholic bishops in Africa Bishops of Perpignan Franciscan bishops French Friars Minor 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in France Roman Catholic archbishops of Rabat {{africa-RC-archbishop-stub