End of ordination ban in sight as diocese gets coadjutor

The Vatican suspended diaconal and priestly ordinations in France’s Fréjus-Toulon diocese in June 2022.

A rare moratorium on priestly ordinations could be lifted after Pope Francis named a coadjutor bishop to a troubled French diocese.

Bishop François Touvet, pictured in 2017. G.Garitan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pope Francis appointed Bishop François Touvet Nov. 21 as the coadjutor bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, a diocese in southeastern France where the Vati…