Jean Badré

{{Short description|French Catholic bishop (1913–2001)}}

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Jean-Marie-Clément Badré (17 October 1913 – 17 September 2001) was a French Catholic bishop of the twentieth century.

Badré was born on 17 October 1913 in Arbois,[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbadre.html biography]

Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 470, Ascendance to Louis Badré, Inspector General of Water and Forests, and Mrs. Claire Maire and educated at Etudes: Lycée de Colmar,{{cite web | url=https://www.whoswho.fr/decede/biographie-jean-badre_797 | title=Biographie Jean Badré Evêque }} He was schooled at École Massillon, Lycée Saint-Louis and Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris.{{cite web | url=https://www.whoswho.fr/decede/biographie-jean-badre_797 | title=Biographie Jean Badré Evêque }}

On 23 December 1939, he was ordained as a deacon and then made a priest the next day (Christmas Eve 1939), shortly prior to the Nazi occupation of France. He asked for exceptional permission to be ordained a priest by Cardinal Verdier. During the war he and his brother Paul Badré worked with the resistance.{{cite web | url=http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=118220 | title=Jean Marie Clément Badré - les Français Libres }}

At this time he was Vicar at the parish of Saint-Antoine de Padoue and assistant chaplain of the Janson-de-Sailly high school in Paris.

After the war he was made Chaplain of the 1st military region (1945), Director of the Catholic military chaplaincy (1946), Catholic chaplain of the French armies, Auxiliary of His Eminence Cardinal Feltin (Archbishop of Paris) (1964), Director of the Vicariate for the Armed Forces (1964)[https://eglise.catholique.fr/espace-presse/communiques-de-presse/368955-rappel-a-dieu-de-mgr-jean-badre/ Rappel à Dieu de Mgr Jean Badré » [archive], sur eglise.catholiqu]. then Vicar for the French Armies (1967),[https://www.whoswho.fr/decede/biographie-jean-badre_797 entry at whoswho France].

In 1963, he was made Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France and Titular Bishop of Novae in Proconsular. He welcomed Pope John Paul II to the Basilica of Saint Therese of Lisieux during his apostolic visit to France in 1980. On 19 November 1988, then aged 75, he retired as Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux). On 17 September 2001, Badré died at the age of 87. He was buried in the Bayeux Cathedral.1990 : Un homme d'Église dans l'histoire, entretiens avec Michel Fourcade, éd. Nouvelle Cité.{{failed verification|date=June 2022}}