Léon Arthur Elchinger
Léon-Arthur Elchinger was the Bishop of Strasbourg from 1967 to 1984.Diploma
In April 1981, Elchinger remarked at a press conference, "I consider homosexuality a sickness." This prompted the concentration camp deportee, Pierre Seel, to write an open letter to the Bishop on 18 November, and to speak publicly for the first time about his experiences and wartime abuses he had faced as a homosexual.
