Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (born 18 December 1959) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been named archbishop of Sens.
[3] He was deputy parish priest at Le Mesnil-Esnard (1987-1989); parish priest of Saint-André in Mont-Saint-Aignan and chaplain of the public high schools of Rouen (1989-1996); and spiritual director and teacher of theology at the Saint Sulpice Seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux (1996-1999), while also teaching in 1998–99 in the Institute of Religious Studies at the Catholic Institute of Paris.
[3] Within the French Episcopal Conference he became president of the Faith and Culture Observatory,[4] a position he continues to hold in 2024.
[4] In March 2019, he became the first from the French Catholic hierarchy to support the idea of ordaining married men.
Wintzer explained that ordaining married men would help the clergy to bring them back to "ordinary humanity", and saw it as a helpful tool in combating sexual abuse that exists among the parts of the Catholic clergy.