Bishop of Mende
Msgr. Jean Pelletier was born on 9 March 1963 in Saint-Sulpice, in the diocese of Angers, in the department of Maine-et-Loire, in the Pays de la Loire region. He was ordained a priest on 26 June 1994 for the diocese of Angers. He was awarded a licentiate in theology, specializing in biblical and systematic theology, at the Institut Catholique de Paris. After ordination, he first served as a member of the Segré pastoral team and the chaplaincy of public high schools of Segré (1994). After studying in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris (1999-2001), he held the roles of cooperator in the parish of Notre-Dame-d’Èvre in Beupréau and in pastoral service in high schools (2001), episcopal delegate for the service of ordained ministers and laypeople in ecclesial mission (2006), member of the chaplaincy of the International Movement of the Catholic Agricultural and Rural Movement (2007), parish priest of Saint-Joseph-des-Basses-Vallées in Tiercé (2008), parish administrator of Saint-Marie-des-Sources-de-l’Èvre in Trémentines (2011), episcopal vicar for the deaconries of Cholet, Coteaux-de-Loire, Mauges et Lyon; parish priest of Espérance-au-Cœur-des-Mauges in Jallais (2014), moderator of Saint-Romain-les-Trois-Provinces in Le Longeron (2018); assistant to the Superior of the Charles de Foucauld Preparatory House of the ecclesiastical province of Rennes in Saint-Pern (2019), parish administrator in Candé (2021), and Superior of the Charles de Foucauld Preparatory House of the ecclesiastical province of Rennes in Saint-Pern (2022).