Claude Dagens

Claude Dagens
Born	(1940-05-20) 20 May 1940 Bordeaux, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Occupation	Bishop
Known for	Member of the Académie française
Religion	Catholicism

Claude Jean Pierre Dagens (French pronunciation: [klod ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ daʒɑ̃]; born 20 May 1940 in Bordeaux, Gironde) is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as bishop of Angoulême.

Previously the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Poitiers from 1999 to 2005, he is a specialist in Catholic doctrine, and was elected the twentieth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française April 2008. He has written abundantly about the role of the Church in French society and its relationship with secularism.

Because of his dialogue with members of Freemasonry, he has provoked the irritation of some Traditionalist Catholics (see Catholicism and Freemasonry).^[1]

References

↑ Un évêque chez les francs-maçons

Académie française Seat 1

Pierre Séguier (1635)
Claude Bazin de Bezons (1643)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1684)
Jean d'Estrées (1711)
Marc-René d'Argenson (1718)
Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (1721)
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1753)
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1788)
François-Urbain Domergue (1803)
Ange-François Fariau (1810)
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (1811)
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (1835)
Émile Augier (1857)
Charles de Freycinet (1890)
Émile Picard (1924)
Louis de Broglie (1944)
Michel Debré (1988)
François Furet (1997)
René Rémond (1998)
Claude Dagens (2008)

Current members of the Académie française

Dagens Laferrière Bredin Marion Makine Fumaroli Hoffmann Déon vacant Delay de Broglie d'Ormesson Veil Carrère d'Encausse Vitoux Giscard d'Estaing Orsenna Serres Dabadie Rinaldi Finkielkraut Obaldia Rosenberg Gallo Fernandez Rouart Nora Rufin Maalouf Sallenave Edwards Weyergans Bona Cheng Pouliquen vacant vacant Lambron Clair Darcos

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 61544341 LCCN: n82150356 ISNI: 0000 0001 2135 5503 GND: 135769663 SUDOC: 026808900 BNF: cb11898418n (data)

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