Claude Dagens

Claude Dagens ( 20 May 1940 –) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Poitiers and as the bishop of the Diocese of Angoulême.

• We are looking to be more numerous, to gather more faithful for the Eucharist, to manifest more strongly the Catholic presence in our secularized societies. However, we cannot be satisfied by these quantitative perspectives. We are also called upon to a task of internal renewal of our Christian life.
  • - H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Claude DAGENS, Archbishop of Angoulême (FRANCE) (9 October 2012) Press Office of the Holy See