Marc Marie Max Aillet (born 17 April 1957) is a French Roman Catholic prelate, who 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, present day

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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 Giuseppe Siri. He was a student at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a licence and a doctorate (1989) 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" (English: "Reading the Bible with Saint Thomas — The passage from 'lettera' to 'res' in the Summa Theologiae"). He returned to France where he was incardinated in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon and 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 to 1992. After this, he was responsible for the formation of seminarians in the diocese of Blois. He served as parish priest of Saint-Raphaël from 1998 to 2002 and, beginning in 2001, served as an

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and, from 2002, vicar general of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. He was elected Cathedral canon in 2003. He was appointed as the bishop of Bayonne by Pope Benedict on 15 October 2008Press Office of the Holy See
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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 wished 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, the personal parish of the

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in January 2010.

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The Wounded Liturgy
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