Pope Francis has named Archbishop Laurent Ulrich as the new Catholic archbishop of Paris.
Ulrich, the archbishop of Lille, northern France, succeeds Archbishop Michel Aupetit, who resigned in December.
The new Paris archbishop was born in 1951 and ordained a priest of the diocese of Dijon, eastern France, in 1979.
He was appointed archbishop of Chambéry, southeastern France, by Pope St John Paul II in the year 2000. He was transferred to Lille in 2008 by Benedict XVI.
Among the challenges facing the 70-year-old archbishop will be to heal the divisions exposed in the Paris archdiocese during Aupetit’s tenure from 2017 to 2021.
