Philippe Laguérie

Philippe Laguérie (30 September 1952, Sceaux) is a French priest and a Traditionalist Catholic. He directs the "Institut du Bon Pasteur", which upholds the Tridentine Mass.

Career

Laguérie was ordained a priest on 29 June, 1979 by Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X. In 1984 he succeeded François Ducaud-Bourget as priest in charge of the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris, and remained there until 1997. In 2002, he moved to Bordeaux where he illegally squatted the Saint-Eloi Church, before his situation in the frame of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II to re-establish contacts with the Society of Saint Pius X.

On 16th September 2004, Laguérie was dismissed from the Society by his superior bishop Bernard Fellay. Some 2 years later, on 8 September, 2006, he was chosen as leader of the newly founded "Institut du Bon Pasteur", which received Pope Benedict XVI's approval, thus regularizing the situation of the Saint-Eloi Church following a signed convention with the archbishop of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard.

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