Gérard Denis Auguste Defois
Gérard Denis Auguste Defois, born 5 January 1931 in Nueil-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, is a French Catholic priest of the Diocese of Angers, Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre and then of Reims and finally of Lille that he left in 2008.
He was also a lecturer at Notre-Dame de Paris for a few years he is also a writer on theology.
Prior to the 1997 legislative elections, he made a statement that politics is everyone's business: "God has entrusted the earth to all mankind. It forces us to humanize it ".
He has been decorated an Officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the National Order of Merit.
