Born in 1958 in Sidi Bel Abes, on the raging sea bordering Algeria, then the French, Jean-Marc Avellin remembers his family’s forced exile in 1962 to join the continent; “At that time, I was too young to understand the pain of my parents and all those who, like them, modest workers, had not seen either the anger of those who forced them to leave, or the contempt of those who did not expect them. , he wrote in a column published after his appointment as archbishop of Marseilles in 2019. After a few painful years in Paris, where his premature baby sister died before he was 1, he grew up in the northern districts of Marseille, then entered the Avignon seminary in 1977. He was ordained a priest in 1984 and continued his studies until receiving a doctorate in theology at the Catholic Institute of Paris in 2000. Previously, in 1992, he founded the Institute of Science and Theology in Marseille, a multi-faith city…
Source: Le Figaro
