Armand Etienne Marie Blanquet du Chayla, OCD (10 April 1887 – 27 November 1970) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in Iraq as a missionary, an archbishop from 1939 to 1964, and as apostolic delegate from 1948 to 1964.
[1] He received his episcopal consecration on 29 June 1939 from Cardinal Achille Liénart, Bishop of Lille.
[citation needed] His appointment came at a delicate juncture, when the Iraqi government was suspicious of the French, but he was at least familiar as head of the Carmelite mission and did not add yet another competing personality to the Catholic leadership.
His success in distancing himself from French interests made possible his assumption of diplomatic duties on behalf of the Holy See a decade later.
[3] He resigned as Delegate and Archbishop of Baghdad on 17 September 1964 at the age of 77 and was assigned the titular see of Darcos.