Armand Maillard, born 18 June 1943 in Offroicourt (Vosges), is the recent French Catholic church archbishop, of the diocese of Bourges. He was appointed to that position by Pope Benedict XVI on 11 September 2007, succeeding Archbishop . The new archbishop, who also received the honorary title of patriarch and , was greeted in his cathedral on 14 October and took his seat in the presence of the bishops of the province: Archbishops , Metropolitan Archbishop of Tours; , bishop of Orleans; , Bishop of Chartres; Maurice de Germiny, Bishop of Blois.