Claude Dupuy (bishop)

Claude Marie Joseph Dupuy (13 September 1901 – 13 February 1989) was a French Catholic priest who became Archbishop of Albi, which encompasses the department of Tarn in southern France.

He placed great emphasis on collegiality, delegating authority and insisting that the work of the diocese be shared between the bishop and the priests.

The diocese struggled during his time in office with a decline in priests, and in 1963 he had to drop Sunday services in the smaller rural parishes.

[7] On the issue of contraception it said "what is always to be condemned is not the regulation of conception, but an egotistic married life, refusing a creative opening-out of the family circle ... this is the anti-conception that is against the Christian ideal of marriage.

[8] The pastoral introduction in French accompanied the draft Document concerning Responsible Parenthood (Schema Documenti de Responsabili Paternitate), the one part of the final report that was leaked.

[9] The commission could not reach agreement, and in the end Pope Paul VI set out the official church position in the encyclical Humanae vitae issued on 25 July 1968.

[2] Towards the end of 1974 he returned the award of the Legion of Honour to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in protest against the new law on abortion.