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Amid scandal, Strasbourg auxiliary bishop resigns for 'health reasons'

Bishop Gilles Reithinger is the latest departure from the scandal-plagued archdiocese

Luke Coppen
Feb 14, 2024
∙ Paid

Pope Francis accepted the resignation Wednesday of a 51-year-old French auxiliary bishop. 

But while the local Church has insisted Bishop Gilles Reithinger resigned for “health reasons,” the bishop was also engulfed by a scandal surrounding the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

Bishop Gilles Reithinger, pictured in 2021. Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commo…

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