Gilbert Aubry

 ( 1942 Births ) 

Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry (born 10 May 1942 in Saint-Louis, Réunion) was a Réunionnais bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion, as well as a poet and a singer. Aubry served as the bishop of the diocese, which is based in the city of Saint-Denis, Réunion, from his episcopal consecration on 2 May 1976 until his retirement on 19 July 2023.

A native of Réunion, Aubry entered the seminary of La Croix-Valmer, before continuing his training at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy and another in theology. He was ordained as a Catholic priest on 23 August 1970. before being appointed the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion, just five years later, on 20 November 1975, by Pope Paul VI. His consecration as bishop took place on 2 May 1976, when he was just 34 years old, which made him the youngest French bishop at that time.

/ref> He was a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Conservation of the Church's Artistic and Historical Heritage, and also presided over the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean.

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• Rivages d'alizé, published en 1971, enhanced in 1975, re-released en 1980, UDIR.
• Sois peuple - Mystique marronnage, 1982, UDIR.
• Pour Dieu et pour l'Homme... Réunionnais, published in 1988, Océan Éditions.
• Poétique Mascarine, 1989, Éditions caribéennes.
• Cœur brûlant, 2000, Éditions Azalées.
• Lumière sur Rivière Noire, 2010, Éditions Azalées.

• Créolie : une âme pour mon île, Auvidis, 1979.

• Roman Catholicism in Réunion