Dominique Lebrun

Dominique Lebrun (born 10 January 1957) is a French Roman Catholic prelate. Bishop of Saint-Étienne from 2006 to 2015, he was appointed Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy in July 2015. Biography Youth and personal life Dominique Julien Claude Marie Lebrun was born in Rouen to Auguste Lebrun, magistrate and Geneviève (née Facque) Lebrun, the last of a family of eight. He spent his early years in Rouen, before his family moved to Villemomble, a town near Paris. He was the son of a nun; his mother entered religion after she was widowed and her children had completed their curriculums. She took the religious name of Geneviève Marie. Dominique Lebrun served as an official football referee for 13 years. Education He studied at Panthéon-Assas University, where he obtained a master's degree in civil law. In 1978, he entered the French seminary in Rome, then went on to study at the Catholic University of Paris. He supported his PhD thesis in theological science in 1990.