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Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe

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Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe
Bishop of Arras
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
DioceseArras
Installed15 December 1961
Term ended25 September 1984
PredecessorVictor-Jean Perrin
SuccessorHenri-Fr.-M.-P. Derouet
Orders
Ordination29 June 1933
by Jean Verdier
Consecration11 April 1962
by Achille Liénart
Personal details
Born(1909-08-31)31 August 1909
Died27 October 2001(2001-10-27) (aged 92)
Arras, Hauts-de-France, France

Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe (31 August 1909 – 27 October 2001) was a 20th-century French Catholic Bishop.[1]

Huyghe was born on 31 August 1909 in Fives-Lille,[2] France. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1933, and consecrated as a bishop on 4 November 1962. He served as Bishop of Arras (France) from December 1961 to September 1984. Huyghe died on 27 October 2001 aged 91 years.[3]

He was an attendee at the second Vatican council, Vatican 2, in the mid-1960s.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1962, Number 30.
  2. ^ Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  3. ^ Diocese of Arras at Gcatholic.org.
  4. ^ Andrew Chandler, Charlotte Hansen Observing Vatican II (Cambridge University Press, 2014) page 178