Monseigneur Francis Deniau , born in 1936, is a Prélat French, bishop of Nevers, and chair episcopal committee of the relations with the Judaïsme.

Biography

Born from a father engineer and a mother secretary, all the two originating ones in the Loire Valley, it passes its youth to Paris in the 18th district. It follows its studies to the Lycée Condorcet then returns to the seminar of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It will carry out its military service during the Guerre of Algeria. It is ordered priest in October 1961, it leaves to follow 2 years of studies to Rome at the time of the first sessions on the council the Vatican II. Of return in France, it is Aumônier students with the Latin Quarter then with Nanterre of 1964 to 1970, which it qualifies with humor of “ period interesting ” then for the universities of Creteil and Saint-Maur until 1972. It then will take part in the formation of the priests and laic for the Diocèse of Nanterre. It deals with its first parish in 1978 while becoming cleaned Saint-Remy cheese with Vanves. In 1985, he becomes general vicar near the bishop of Nanterre, Mgr François Favreau and in 1997 becomes cleaned parish of Puteaux. During these years, it continues to work with the university parish. It is ordered bishop of Nevers on October 4th, 1998.

Relationships to the Judaism

Monseigneur Deniau is president of the episcopal committee of the relationships to the Judaism. He took part between the 23 and on February 28th 2004 in the voyage of nine bishop S French in New York, with Jean-Marie Lustiger, André Vingttrois, Gaston Poulain, Jean-Yves Riocreux, Herve Giraud, Benoît Rivière, Guy de Kérimel, Laurent Ulrich.

This voyage made following a symposium Théologique, quite as single, gathering cardinal from January 18th to 19th 2004 about fifteen of the whole world and about thirty orthodoxe Rabbin S.

The Rabbin orthodoxe Gilles Bernheim was declared “upset” by this “dense relation”.

See too

• interreligieux Dialog

Source

• Site of the diocese of Nevers.

External bonds

• Route of Francis Deniau on the site of the diocese of Nevers
• Intervention of Monseigneur Francis Deniau on the site of the Conference of the Bishops of France following the emission of Gerard Mordillat and Jerome Prior on the origin of the Christianity on April 3rd 2004 on Arte
• new Exchanges with the Jews of New York from February 23rd to 28th 2004
• Of other readings of Christianity on the site of the diocese of Saint-Claude

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