Henri Desroche

His writings center on the sociology of religion and cooperative systems and movements.

[1] Henri Desroche was born 12 April 1914 in Roanne, France.

He attended the Collège Saint-Pierre of Villemontais before entering the seminary in the diocese of Lyon.

He completed his theological studies in Chambery and was ordained a priest in Annecy in July 1936.

On September 30, 1977 Desroche received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.