Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe Explained

Type:Bishop
Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe
Bishop of Arras
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Diocese:Arras
Term Start:15 December 1961
Term End:25 September 1984
Predecessor:Victor-Jean Perrin
Successor:Henri-Fr.-M.-P. Derouet
Ordination:29 June 1933
Ordained By:Jean Verdier
Consecration:11 April 1962
Consecrated By:Achille Liénart
Birth Date:31 August 1909
Birth Place:Lille, Nord, French Third Republic
Death Place: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]

Notes and References

  1. Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1962, Number 30.
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhuyghe.html Gérard-Maurice Eugène Huyghe
  3. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/arra0.htm Diocese of Arras
  4. Andrew Chandler, Charlotte Hansen Observing Vatican II (Cambridge University Press, 2014) page 178