“This mission for the Pope’s trip is the meeting of a lifetime”: who are the French generals in charge?

At first, he wanted to remain discreet, not to appear in the media. Then his bishop, Mgr Philippe Ballot, mentioned his name in an interview with Républicain Lorrain, on July 8. The general to whom he had entrusted the organization of Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Metz was emerging from the shadows among the Mosellans. Pascal Péran is the former military governor of the city, commanding the Terre Nord-Est region (the entire area extending between Lille, in the North, and Mâcon, in Saône-et-Loire) from 2010 to 2012. His title with the bishop? Special advisor for the organization of the Moselle stage.

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