Louis Dufaux
Louis Jean Dufaux (born 21 October 1931 in Nice, † April 14, 2011 ibid ) was a French bishop of Grenoble.
Life
Louis Dufaux attended the minor seminary of Saint -Paul in Cannes, studied at the seminary in Nice and at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He received on 29 June 1955 and was ordained priest incardinated in the clergy of the diocese of Nice. He was pastor at the church of Notre -Dame du Port in Nice. From 1965 to 1970 he was Director of Education and adult catechesis in the Ordinariate. In 1970 he became deputy director of the catechumenate of the Roman Catholic Church in France. From 1975 to 1978 he was Director of the Centre National de l' Enseignement Religieux ( CNER ), the National Centre for Religious Education. From 1978 to 1980 he was Vicar in the Diocese of Nice with the responsibility for the pastoral care and training of priests. From 1980 to 1984 he was Vicar General of the diocese of Nice.
Pope John Paul II appointed him on 27 February 1984 on the Titular Bishop of Accia and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Marseille. The episcopal ordination on April 29, 1984 gave him the emeritus bishop of Nice, Jean -Julien -Robert Mouisset; Were co-consecrators Félix -Marie- Honoré Verdet, Emeritus Bishop of La Rochelle, and François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint- Macary, appointed Bishop of Nice.
On March 10, 1988, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Grenoble. After the resignation of Gabriel -Marie -Joseph Matagrins on September 6, 1989, he succeeded him as Bishop of Grenoble.
He was president of the Committee for National Solidarity ( Conseil national de la solidarité), President of the Episcopal Committee for Social Affairs and Caritas (Comité épiscopal socio - caritatif ) and member of the National Council for Cooperation with the Catholic Church ( Conseil d'administration de la délégation catholique pour la coopération ).
On June 10, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. be age-related resignation to. He lived in the last house of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Nice, where he died in 2011.