Guy de Kerimel

[1] After preparatory school at Sérigné in the Vendée, he then obtained the baccalaureate at the Institute Saint Joseph de Fontenay-le-Comte and did additional studies at the École Nationale des Chartes.

[4] In 1979, he worked as a civil employee with mentally handicapped children in a medical-educational institute in Sees in the department Orne.

[4] Beginning in 1981,[4] he studied at the French seminary in Rome, obtaining a licentiate in moral theology at the Gregorian University.

[3] After ordination he was vicar of the parish of Saint Francis of Assisi in Aix-en-Provence (1988–89) and on the staff of the diocesan seminary of Saint-Luc (1987–96), and responsible for the qualifying year at that seminary (1988–96), pastor and then dean for the Gardanne zone from 1996 to 2000 and a member of the Episcopal Council of the diocese from 1997 to 2001.

In November 2012, he was elected head of a working group on "social phenomenon of abortion and the education of youth.