De la Fare was named Bishop of Nancy on 7 October 1787 and preconized on 17 December. He was consecrated in Dijon on 13 January 1788 by Bishop René des Monstiers de Mérinville of Dijon. De la Fare was elected to the Estates General in 1789, and gave the opening address in Versailles on 5 May 1789. He refused to have anything to do with any government of France except the Bourbon monarchy, and emigrated to Germany. Louis XVIII appointed him his Chargé-d'affaires in Vienna. He therefore refused to resign the diocese of Nancy until 1816, even though requested to do so by Pope Pius VII in November 1801. He was later named archbishop of Sens. He was created a cardinal on 16 May 1823. He died in Paris at the Tuileries on 10 December 1829. Jean, p. 417. Ritzler, VI, p. 300 with note 4. Bernard de Brye (2004). Consciences épiscopales en exil, 1789-1814: à travers la correspondance de Mgr de la Fare, évêque de Nancy (in French). Paris: Editions du CERF. ISBN978-2-204-06938-0.
Forbin-Janson was born in Paris in 1785, and emigrated as a child. On his return he entered the seminar of S. Sulpice in 1808. He was a vicar general of Chambéry. Returning to Paris he assisted in the founding of the Missionaires de France. He was named Bishop of Nancy by royal ordinance of 21 November 1823, and was consecrated by the Archbishop of Rouen, the Prince de Croy, on 6 June 1824. Heavily involved in the Revolution of 1830, he was forced to leave Nancy for Paris, leaving the diocese in the hands of vicars-general and Coadjutors. Forbin-Janson served as a missionary in Canada and the United States from 1839 to 1841. He died on 11 July 1844 at the Château de La Guilhermy near Marseille. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 386–387. Richard F. Costigan (1 January 1980). Rohrbacher and the Ecclesiology of Ultramontanism. Rome: Gregorian Biblical BookShop. pp. 47–50. ISBN978-88-7652-466-0.
Lavigerie was later named archbishop of Algiers on 12 January 1867; he left Nancy on 8 April, and his two Vicars-General were elected Vicars-Capitular to administer the diocese. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 391–392. François Renault (1994). Cardinal Lavigerie: Churchman, Prophet, and Missionary. London: Athlone Press. ISBN978-0-485-11453-9.
Born at Nancy in 1873, Ruch was educated at the Grand Séminaire de Nancy and the Institut Catholique in Paris, and was a Doctor of Theology. He was named Coadjutor Bishop of Nancy and titular Bishop of Gerasa (Palestine) in 1913; he was consecrated in the Cathedral of Nancy on 16 July 1913. He became Bishop of Nancy in October 1918. He was later named archbishop of Strasbourg in 1919. He died in 1945. Louis Châtellier (1982). Francis Rapp (ed.). Le Diocèse de Strasbourg (in French). Paris: Editions Beauchesne. pp. 270–272. ISBN978-2-7010-1037-3.
Papin was born in 1947 in Chemillé (Maine-et-Loire). He studied at the Institut catholique de Paris, and taught dogmatic theology at the seminary in Nancy. He was named Bishop of Nancy by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 1999, and consecrated in the Cathedral of Nancy on 24 October 1999 by Bishop Jean Pierre Orchampt of Angers. Catholiques en Meurthe et Moselle,Monseigneur Jean-Louis Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11. (in French) David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Bishop Jean-Louis Henri Maurice Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11.
Michel was born in 1960 in Roanne (Loire). He obtained his master's degree in theology at the Catholic University of Lyon. He was ordained a priest on 30 June 1991 on Saint Jean de Lyon by Albert Decourtray. He was appointed bishop of Valence by Pope Francis on 4 April 2014 and ordained bishop on 29 May of the same year by Philippe Barbarin. He was appointed bishop of Nancy-Toul on 6 April 2023 and his installation took place on 18 May 2023 in the Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation Cathedral in Nancy by Jean-Luc Bouilleret. Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Bishop Pierre-Yves Michel, retrieved: 2024-09-04.
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Papin was born in 1947 in Chemillé (Maine-et-Loire). He studied at the Institut catholique de Paris, and taught dogmatic theology at the seminary in Nancy. He was named Bishop of Nancy by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 1999, and consecrated in the Cathedral of Nancy on 24 October 1999 by Bishop Jean Pierre Orchampt of Angers. Catholiques en Meurthe et Moselle,Monseigneur Jean-Louis Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11. (in French) David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Bishop Jean-Louis Henri Maurice Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11.
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Jaeger was born at Nancy in 1944. He holds a Licenciate in philosophy and one in theology from the Faculté Catholique et Université d’État de Lille. From 1986 to 1991 he was Superior of the Seminary of Lille. On 11 April 1991 he was named Coadjutor Bishop of Nancy and Toul, and was consecrated by Jean Albert Bernard on 2 June 1991. On 31 November he succeeded to the diocese, upon the resignation of Bishop Bernard, who had passed the retirement age of 75. Subsequently, on 12 August 1998, Jaeger was named bishop of Arras. Diocèse d'Arras, Biographie de Mgr Jaeger évêque d'Arras, retrieved: 2017-01-11 (in French).
