Jacques Gaillot

Jacques Gaillot (September 11th 1935 with Saint-Dizier, France -) is a man of the church French. Discharged from the diocese of Évreux because of its its discussed difficulty and standpoint of working in agreement with the other French bishops and a certain number of priests and laymen of his diocese. There remains committed in various social struggles, morals or policies.

Biography

birth on September 11th 1935
of 1957 with 1959: military service in Algeria
ordered priest in 1961
of 1965 with 1972: professor with the regional Seminar of Rheims
1973: priest of Saint-Dizier
1973: Training institute of the teachers of clergy (IFEC), with Paris
1977: general vicar of the Diocese of Langres
May 1982: bishop of Évreux. Jacques Gaillot placed his episcopate under the protection of the happy Jacques-Desired Laval: “I had been allured by the course so evangelic of this man. Priest with Évreux, it left to Mauritius and devoted himself to forsaken company: blacks. Today still, I admire the acts which it had courage to pose at its time at the 19th century”.
January 13rd 1995: raised of his pastoral mission with Évreux, Jacques Gaillot is named bishop in partibus of Partenia (diocese disappeared since 1.500 years, located in current the Algérie, near Sétif)

The political field and social

In 1983 it supported a conscientious objector in front of the court of Évreux. During the episcopal annual meeting, it was one of the two bishops to vote against the episcopal text on nuclear dissuasion .

In 1985 it supported the Intifada in Palestine and met Yasser Arafat in Tunis. It was invited to a special meeting on disarmament in the United Nations.

In 1987 it went to South Africa to meet there a young militant anti Apartheid ebroician, condemned to 4 years of imprisonment by the African Southern government. It was criticized to have had to give up the pilgrimage diocésien with Lourdes, in order to achieve this voyage.

In 1988:

It defended the ordination of the men married in front of a private meeting of the assembly with Lourdes.
In December, it gives an interview to the monthly magazine Him in which it poses in behavior of bishop in the cathedral of Évreux.
the December 25th, it passes the evening of Christmas in the studios of the radio Pacific FM to the microphone of which it is declared ready to give a blessing to homosexual which would make the request at the time of their union of it.

In 1989:

the February 2nd, it publishes in the homosexual weekly magazine Gai Foot , an controversial article entitled “ Être homosexual and catholic ”.
the February 15th, it signs with the cardinal Albert Decourtray, primacy of Gaules and president of the Episcopal conference, a declaration committing it to pay “a critical attention” to the “ambiguous declarations” and to take care with a “particular vigilance” that its interventions “do not mobilize the opinion in contrary conflicts with the community property of the company and the force of the Christian message”.
It took part in a voyage in French Polynésie organized by a pacifist movement to protest against the French nuclear tests.
It also attended the ceremony of transfer of ashes of the abbot Henri Gregoire to the the Pantheon. This gesture is symbolic system in measurement oú Gregoire was an instrument of the abolition of slavery, and end of discriminations against the Blacks and the Jews during the French revolution. But the catholic hierarchy refused to give him extreme oiling because of its acceptance of the civil constitution of the clergy, which it contributed to write. Monseigneur Gaillot was the only French bishop to take part in this ceremony.

In 1995, Jacques Gaillot was named bishop in partibus of Parténia. Parténia is an episcopal see located in Algeria, in the area of Sétif. It disappeared under sands at the end of the 5th century. Monseigneur Gaillot uses this prélature to communicate, in particular on Internet, in favor of his orientations.

May 13rd, 2002, it is received in audience with the maconnic cabin the Scottish Future , under bishop of Parténia

In 2006 it engages, at the sides of associations LGBT, against the hardening of the law anti-homosexuality to the Zimbabwe.

He wrote a dozen books, in particular Yell against exclusion obtained a large press coverage. He criticizes the French law there on the immigration supported by Charles Pasqua.

He is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

In August 2007, he is signatory of a petition requiring “the handing-over in immediate freedom of Marina Petrella and the complete stop of all the procedures of extradition in his opposition” like “the stop to the procedures against Cesare Battisti and his handing-over in freedom”.

Works

They gave me such an amount of happiness , Desclée de Brouwer, 1987
Foi without borders , Desclée de Brouwer, 1988
My Freedom in the Church , Albin Michel, 1989
Monseigneur of the others , the Threshold, 1989
the world shouts, the Church murmurs , Syros Alternatives, 1991
Chemin of cross , Desclée de Brouwer, 1991
Open letter with those which preach the war and with the others makes it make, Albin Michel, 1991
Paroles without borders , Desclée de Brouwer, 1993
the year of all the dangers - Yell against exclusion , Ramsay, 1994
the Cries of the Chorus , Albin Michel, 1994
I take freedom , Flammarion, 1995
Dear friends of Partenia , Albin Michel, 1995
Yell against the nuclear tests , Ramsay, 1995
Paroles of a man of the church , Ramsay, 1995
Dialog and freedom in the Church (with G. Ringlet), Ramsay, 1995
Dialog on the square between a bishop and a theologist , Desclée de Brouwer, 1996
what I believe , Grasset/Desclée de Brouwer, 1996
virtual Église. Church of the year 2000 - a bishop with the kingdom of Internet , Albin Michel, 1999
Jacques Gaillot, Alice Gombault and Pierre de Locht, For a catechism of freedom , Ramsay, 2003

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