Philippe Christory

Philippe Christory (born February 28, 1958, in Tourcoing), is a French Catholic prelate, and bishop of Chartres since his nomination on February 2, 2018. Christory was born into a practising Catholic family. He lost faith and stopped practising at the age of 16. in 1984, he discovered the charismatic renewal within a prayer group of the Emmanuel Community. He is a qualified engineer, after he graduated from the ICAM engineering school in Lille in 1980. He completed his military service as a mechanical officer in the Marine Nationale, after which, he travelled around Asie from 5 months and then worked as an engineer in Sudan and in France. He entered the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome and attended classes at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Marianum Pontifical Institute. He holds a canonical licence in theology with a special mention in mariology. As a member of the Communauté de l'Emmanuel, he was ordained as a priest on June 27, 1992, for the archidiocese of Paris. From 1992 to 1998, he served as a vicar at the Parisian parish of the Sainte-Trinité and as a youth chaplain for the lycée Condorcet. In 1998, he was appointed as parish priest at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, where he remained until 2004.