Philippe Laguérie
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Philippe Laguérie (30 September 1952, Sceaux) is a French priest and a Traditionalist Catholic. He directs the Institut du Bon Pasteur, which uphold the Tridentine Mass.
[edit] Career
Laguérie was ordinated a priest on 29 June, 1979 by Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X. He succeeded in 1984 to François Ducaud-Bourget as prest in charge of the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Church in Paris, and remained there until 1997. In 2002, he moved to Bordeaux where he illegally squatted the Saint-Eloi Church, before his situation in the frame of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II to re-establish contacts with the schismatic Lefebvrists.
On 16th September 2004, Laguérie was excluded from the Society of St. Pius X by his superior bishop Bernard Fellay. Some 2 years later, on 8 September, 2006, he was chosen as leader of the newly founded Institut du Bon Pasteur, which received Pope Benedict XVI's approval, thus regularising the situation of the Saint-Eloi Church following a signed convention with the archbishop of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard.
