Pascal Wintzer

The Most Reverend Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer
Archbishop of Poitiers
Church	Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Poitiers
Appointed	12 January 2012
Orders
Ordination	27 June 1987
Consecration	19 May 2007 by Albert Rouet
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-18) 18 December 1959
Nationality	French
Denomination	Catholic
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Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (born 18 December 1959) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of Poitiers since 2012. He was previously the apostolic administrator of the same diocese from 2011 to 2012, where he also served as an auxiliary bishop from 2007 until 2011, holding the title of the titular bishop of Rusadir during the same period.

Wintzer was ordained a priest on 27 June 1987 in Rouen. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Poitiers and the titular bishop of Rusadir on 2 April 2007. His episcopal consecration took place on 19 May 2007, and was consecrated by then archbishop of Poitiers Albert Rouet. The co-consecrators were the archbishop of Rouen Jean-Charles Descubes and Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Duval of Rouen.

After the Descubes' retirement on 12 February 2011, Wintzer was appointed the apostolic administrator of Poitiers the same day. He was appointed the archbishop of Poitiers on 13 January 2012.

In March 2019, he became the first from the French Catholic hierarchy to publicly support the idea of ordaining married men. Wintzer explained that ordaining married men would help the clergy to bring them back to "ordinary humanity", and saw it as a helpful tool in combating sexual abuse that exists among the parts of the Catholic clergy.

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Web-sites

• "Archbishop Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 18 December 2020.