François Touvet

François Touvet (born 13 May 1965) is a French Catholic prelate who became Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon in 2025 after serving for more than a year as coadjutor there.

[2] He is the brother of Laurent Touvet, a senior civil servant, and the brother-in-law of General Pierre de Villiers.

[1] After interrupting his studies to fulfill his military service obligations,[4] he obtained his master's degree in theology at the Catholic University of Lyon in 1992.

[6] Within the Bishops' Conference of France, Touvet was a member of the Commission for the Liturgy and Pastoral Sacraments from 2017 to 2021 and interim president of the French Association of Pontifical Missionaries in 2020/21.

He was assigned most of the authority of an ordinary, rather than the role of an auxiliary which is customary for a coadjutor, specifically "the special powers of the diocesan government in the areas of administration, management of the clergy, training of seminarians and priests, support of institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, and associations of the faithful".