Jean-Gérard Roux

Jean-Gérard de la Passion Antoine Laurent Charles Roux (born in Nice, 1951) is a bishop resident in La Ferte Gaucher, France.

Msgr. Roux was ordained a priest by a Bishop Girard on May 20 1977. Episcopal consecration Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, April 1982 at Loano, Italy.

Controversy

Roux consecrated by Archbishop Thuc on April 18, 1982.

It is reported Archbishop Thuc was with the Heller family in Munich on the given date (April 18) and therefore could not have consecrated a man on the very same day in Nice. However Ms Louise Littieri, a resident of Loano (Italy), declares that she witnessed the episcopal consecration of Jean Gerard Roux (ordained a priest, Nice, 1977 and Luigi Boni (ordained a priest in 1950, Vatican City) conferred in a chapel in the same Italian town. Another testimony by the Trappist Monk and Priest Fr. Aereld O.C.S.O. also says, that Roux was indeed ordained by Thuc.

Roux also conditionally re-consecrated Alfred Seiwert-Fleige on April 8, 1995 who was formerly a bishop of the. Seiwert-Fleige later on, in 2001, reconciled with Pope John Paul II.