Michel Mondésert

Michel Louis Marie Joseph Mondésert ( born December 5, 1916 in Villefranche -sur -Saône, France, † 16 April 2009) was Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble.

Life

Michel Mondésert ordained a priest on July 11, 1943 in Sacre Coeur de Bourg -en- Bresse and taught from 1943 to 1956 at the Seminary of Belley. From 1956 to 1960 he worked in the diocesan administration and was military chaplains of the MFR in the diocese. Between 1960 and 1966 he was the nation's military chaplains, also active in the French Bishops' Conference for the Chrétien dans le Monde Rural CMR ( "Christians in rural areas" ) in Paris. From 1966 to 1971, Michel Mondésert general of the diocese of Belley.

In 1971 he was called by Pope Paul VI. appointed Titular Bishop of Apollonis and appointed auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Grenoble. He received his episcopal consecration on September 25, 1971 Archbishop Alexandre -Charles Cardinal Renard, Archbishop of Lyon. Co-consecrators were René- Fernand- Eugène Fourrey, Bishop of Belley, and Gabriel -Marie -Joseph Matagrin, Bishop of Grenoble. He was also archdeacon of the Cathedral Saint- Maurice in Vienne and Saint Jean -Baptiste and head of the inter-diocesan region in the Rhone Valley.

1992 his resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II. He lived since his retirement in the rectory in Morestel.