Gérard Daucourt

Who is Gérard Daucourt?

Gérard Daucourt is the current Catholic Bishop of Nanterre in the Hauts-de-Seine Département in the Paris region, France, to which he was appointed in 2002. Daucourt was ordained as a priest in 1966 when he served in Besançon, France, before subsequently serving as diocesan of Troyes and then of Orléans.

Daucourt has made several strong statements. He is close to the Greek orthodox hierarchy at the Phanar in Turkey and together with Cardinal Barbarin of Lyons spent the day of 13 April 2004 in the company of Patriarch Bartholomew there.