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Laurent, 70, has been archbishop of the French city of Lille
since 2008. The Vatican announced his appointment on Tuesday.
Archbishop Michel Aupetit resigned in December. At the time, he
denied any intimate relationship with the unnamed woman, though
he acknowledged his behaviour may have been ambiguous.
Several days after accepting Aupetit's resignation, Francis told
reporters he had done so not because the archbishop had sinned
but because the gossip about him had left him in a position
where he could no longer govern the large archdiocese.
The Church in France is still reeling from a report last October
that showed that clerics sexually abused more than 200,000
children in France over the past 70 years.
(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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