Dominique-Marie David

Dominique-Marie Jean Michel David (born 21 September 1963) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Monaco since 2021.

After high school, he attended the Université catholique de l'Ouest in Angers, graduating with a degree in English philology.

He entered the Emmanuel Community and was sent as a seminarian to the Saint-Paul Interdiocesan Seminary in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theology from the Université catholique de Louvain.

He was vicar of the parish of Sautron in the Diocese of Nantes from 1991 to 1995; led the liturgical service of the Emmanuel Community from 1995 to 2001; was responsible for the formation of seminarians at the Community's Maison Saint-Martin in Paris from 1997 to 2001; was administrator of the Saint-Diversien parish in Nantes in 2001-2002; was parish priest of the Sainte-Madeleine parish there from 2002 to 2009; headed the ordained ministers and seminarians of the Community from 2009 to 2016; was Rector of the Trinità dei Monti church in Rome from 2016 to 2019;[a] and a member of the team of formators of the Saint-Jean Interdiocesan Seminary in Nantes beginning in 2019.

[5] He received his episcopal consecration on 8 March 2020 from his predecessor in Monaco, Bernard Barsi.