Bishop of France
The Rev. Fr. Antoine de Romanet de Beaune was born in Le Mans, department of Sarthe, France, on 25 October 1962. After secondary studies at the Saint-Grégoire college in Tours and the Montaigne Lyceum in Paris, he attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, obtaining a doctorate in economic sciences. In 1984 he was awarded a licentiate in law from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In the years 1986-1987 he was an adjunct commercial officer at the French embassy in Egypt. In 1988 he entered the seminary and a year later was sent to Brussels, Belgium, for his ecclesiastical studies which he continued from 1992 in Rome at the Pontifical French Seminary, to complete his formation at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where in 1996 he obtained a degree in moral theology. He was ordained a priest on 24 June 1995 for the archdiocese of Paris. From 1995 to the present he has held various offices and ministries. From 2002 to 2010 he was parish priest of Saint-Louis de France in Washington (United States of America), and Chaplain of the Rochambeau French lyceum in Washington. He is currently dean of Auteuil, parish priest of Notre-Dame d’Auteuil in Paris and co-director of the “Politics and Religion” department of the Collège des Bernardins and professor of social morality at the Saint-Sulpice Interdiocesan Seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the diocese of Nanterre.