Jean Laffitte

Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte (born 5 May 1952) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church. A bishop since 2009, he has had an academic career and served in several positions in the Roman Curia. He has been Prelate of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since 4 July 2015. Laffitte was born on 5 May 1952 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France. He attended the Toulouse 1 University Capitole, graduating with a degree in Political Science in 1973. He was also educated at the Universities of Cambridge in 1979 and Salamanca in 1980. In 1984 he entered the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome where he read philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Theology and Philosophy in 1988. He was ordained as a priest on 2 July 1989 in the diocese of Autun and is a member of the Community of Emmanuel. He pursued further studies at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and earned a doctorate in moral theology. From 1994 to 2009 he taught at the Institute as a professor of conjugal ethics, anthropology and spirituality.