François-Xavier Bustillo
François-Xavier Bustillo O.F.M. Conv. is the elected Bishop of Ajaccio and a Conventual Franciscan friar. He was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Ajaccio in France on May 11, 2021. Biography. François-Xavier Bustillo was born in Pamplona in Navarre, Spain and was ordained as a Franciscan priest in 1994. After his studies at the "Istituto Teologico di Sant'Antonio", he obtained his doctorate at Catholic University of Toulouse. In 1994 he was one of the founders of the Saint Bonaventure's Convent in Narbonne. From 2006 to 2018 he held the role of Provincial Custos  of the Conventual Franciscans for France and Belgium, and from 2005 to 2018 carried out his ministry in diocese of Carcassonne-Narbonne. In 2018 he was appointed guardian of the convent of Saint-Maximilien-Kolbe in Lourdes, France. On May 11, 2021, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Ajaccio. He'll be consacrated the following 13 June.