Career
On 12 July 1996 he was named by Pope John Paul II as Titular Bishop of Malliana and appointed as an auxiliary bishop in Paris. He was consecrated by the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, on 11 October of the same year. The co-consecrators were the Secretary for Relations with States in the Vatican Secretariat of State, Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, André Vingt-Trois.
On 11 January 2001 he was named by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Versailles.