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Bishop Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud

Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone)

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Born
Jun 24, 1961 Villeurbanne, Isère, France
Nationality
Algeria
Ordained priest
Jul 1, 1990 Lyon, France
Ordained bishop
Oct 18, 2025 Annaba, Algeria
Appointed
Oct 18, 2025
Principal consecrator
Jean-Paul Vesco O.P.
Co-consecrators
Nicolas Pierre Jean Lhernould Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges
Education
Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Bishop Michel Guillaud was born on 24 June 1961 in Villeurbanne, France. After studying at the University Seminary of Lyon and obtaining a licentiate in theology, he was awarded a licentiate in Islamology from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), Rome. He was ordained a priest on 1 July 1990 for the archdiocese of Lyon. He has held the following offices: lecturer in Islamology at the Catholic Faculty of Lyon; chaplain of students of the Catholic University of Lyon; parish priest in Batna (2006-2014), Constantine (2014-2016), Skikda (2016 to the present) and vicar general of the diocese of Constantine (2020-2024); secretary general of the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa (CERNA) (2015-2025); and since 2024, diocesan administrator of the diocese of Constantine.