Antoine de Romanet de Beaune (born 25 October 1962) is a French Catholic prelate. Since 2017 he has served as Bishop of the French Armed Forces.
Early life and family
Antoine de Romanet de Beaune was born on 25 October 1962 in Le Mans to Luc de Romanet de Beaune and Anne Marie Lafont. His family is from Saint-Martin-du-Vieux-Bellême, Orne and are part of the French nobility. He is the younger brother of the businessman and political adviser Augustin de Romanet de Beaune.[1] De Romanet also has two younger siblings, Louis and Jeanne-Marie, who are a Catholic priest and a Benedictine religious sister.
Education
De Romanet studied at Saint-Grégoire College in Tours and at Lycée Montaigne in Paris. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1983, later obtaining a doctorate in economics in 1989. From 1986 to 1987 he worked as an assistant to the commercial attaché at the French Embassy in Cairo.[2]
In 1988 de Romanet began seminary studies in Paris. In 1992 he switched to the French seminary in Rome, graduating in 1996 from the Pontifical Gregorian University with a degree in moral theology.[3]
In 2014 he was appointed dean of the Deanery of Auteuil in Paris and co-director of the Department of Politics and Religion at the Collège des Bernardins.[6] De Romanet also taught social ethics at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice.
