page_title: Hervé Jean Robert Giraud
section_title: Episcopal career
hierarchical_section_title: Hervé Jean Robert Giraud / Episcopal career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Mgr Giraud en août 2019.
context_page_description: Hervé Jean Robert Giraud is a French Catholic prelate currently serving as the archbishop of Sens-Auxerre.
context_section_description: Within the Conference of Bishops of France, he was elected in 2005 president of the Commission for the ordained and the laity in ecclesial mission. On 8 November 2008 he was re-elected president of the commission for a term of three years.
  In 2011, he became president of the Council for communication
  When named a bishop he was the youngest French bishop.  Bishop Hervé Giraud was also the first French Bishop to have a social network, Twitter, account under the name @mgrgiraud. He has also published a book Twitthomélies.
caption: Bishop Giraud in 2019.
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