) is the current Bishop

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 of Nanterre

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 in the Hauts-de-Seine

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 Département in the Paris

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 region, France

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, to which he was appointed in 2002. Daucourt was ordained as a priest in 1966 when he served in Besançon

Besançon

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, France, before subsequently serving as diocesan of Troyes

Troyes

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 (1992) and then of Orleans

Orléans

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 (1998).

Daucourt has made several strong statements (e.g. on the need to vote even if the most suitable available candidate's programme is not close to Christian principles, and criticising the bishop of Recife following excommunications pronounced after a child-mother underwent an abortion). He is close to the Greek orthodox hierarchy at the Phanar in Turkey and together with Cardinal Barbarin of Lyons spent the day of 13 April 2004 (the seventh centenary of the Fourth Crusade taking of Constantinople) in the company of Patriarch Bartholomew there.