Michel Aupetit


Michel Christian Alain Aupetit is a French prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Paris since his installation on 6 January 2018. He was previously the Bishop of Nanterre beginning in April 2014 and before that an Auxiliary Bishop of Paris. Before becoming a priest, he was a physician and practiced medicine for more than twenty years.

Early years

Born in Versailles on 23 March 1951, Michel Aupetit grew up in Chaville et Viroflay in the western part of the Île-de-France. He pursued a career in medicine, with studies that included time at and Hôpital Necker. He practiced general medicine in Colombes from 1979 to 1990. He taught medical ethics from 1997 to 2006 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Henri-Mondor in Créteil. He earned a doctor of medicine degree and a university diploma in medical ethics from the faculty of medicine of Creteil, as well as a theology degree.
He then studied for the priesthood at the seminary of Paris and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Paris on 24 June 1995 at the age of 44. He served as vicar first of the Church of Saint-Louis-en-l'Île from 1995 to 1998, and then of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis from 1998 to 2001. He was also chaplain of high and middle schools of the Marais from 1995 to 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he was assigned to the parish of, and dean in the Pasteur-Vaugirard deanery from 2004 to 2006.
From 2006 to 2013 he was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Paris.

Bishop

On 2 February 2013 Pope Benedict XVI named him auxiliary bishop of Paris and titular bishop of Massita. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal André Vingt-Trois.
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Nanterre on 4 April 2014 and he was installed there on 4 May.
On 7 December 2017, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Paris, and he was installed there on 6 January 2018. Pope Francis named him a member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on 6 August 2019.
On September 5, 2019, Aupetit and Rémy Heitz, the lead prosecutor in Paris, signed an accord agreeing to better cooperation which will speed up sex abuse investigations.

Selected works