Jean-Pierre Batut
Jean-Pierre Batut is a French bishop and theologian. Appointed bishop of Blois and installed there on 11 January 2015, he served in the Issy-lès-Moulineaux seminary near Paris, and as Curé of Ste. Jeanne de Chantal church in the XVIe Arrondissement of Paris before being appointed auxiliary bishop of Lyon.
Career
Hitherto best known as a theologian, his doctoral thesis explored the doctrine of divine omnipotence in patristic thought prior to the Council of Nicaea and its publication in 2009 as Pantocrator was well received.According to French and Italian newspaper reports his appointment as bishop of Metz in the Concordat zone of Alsace-Moselle in eastern France in 2013 appears to have been overruled by the French Minister of Interior. A question on this point was asked in the French parliament on 22 October 2013.
In April 2015 bishop Batut criticized President Hollande's reference to 'Egyptian citizens massacred in Libya', a euphemism followed abundantly in French official and journalistic sources and intended to avoid reference to Christians being killed but which has now been abandoned by the French élite. Since 9 September 2023 will be auxiliary bishop in Lyon. Pope Francis write him delegation on 26 June 2023.