Appointment of bishop of Séez, France
The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Bruno Feillet, until now titular of Gaudiaba and auxiliary of Reims, as bishop of Séez, France.
Curriculum vitae
Bishop Bruno Feillet was born on 16 November 1959 in Caudéran, in the metropolitan archdiocese of Bordeaux. After his secondary studies, he entered the seminary of Lille for one year. In 1982 he obtained a university diploma in foreign languages from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille III and completed two years of civil service in Mauritania. In 1984 he entered the Séminaire Universitaire des Carmes of Paris and enrolled at the Institut Catholique in order to carry out his studies in theology, which concluded in 1989 with a licentiate. From 1994 to 1996 he attended courses on family morality. From 1995 to 1998 he also attended the Université Catholique de Lyon, Institut des Sciences de la Famille, obtaining a DEA in Sciences de la Famille.
He was ordained a priest on 1 October 1988 for the archdiocese of Cambrai.
Since ordination he has held the following offices: parish vicar in Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes (1989-1992); chaplain for students at the University of Valenciennes (1989-1996); parish vicar of Saint Géry in Valenciennes (1992-1996); regional chaplain for the Mission Etudiante (1992-1995); member of the animating team, lecturer in moral theology (1998-2006), teacher of philosophy and moral theology at the interdiocesan seminary of Lille and member of the diocesan Family Pastoral Service (1998-2013); rector of the Basilica of Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordorf and parish priest in solidum of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l’Escaut in Valenciennes (2006-2009); parish priest-dean of Valenciennes and its urban conglomerate (2009-2013); diocesan head of ongoing formation (2010-2013).
On 28 June 2013 he was appointed as titular bishop of Gaudiaba and auxiliary of Reims. He received episcopal consecration the following 22 September.
Within the French Episcopal Conference he is president of the Family and Society Episcopal Council.
