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]