The majority of priest ordinations in France take place in June, particularly on the Sunday preceding the feast of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, celebrated on June 29.

In 2025, 90 priests will be ordained in France. The distribution is as follows:

• 64 diocesan priests
• 25 religious and community members (5 of whom are already counted among the 63 diocesan priests)
• 1 member of an apostolic life society (MEP, of which 1 is already counted among the 73 diocesan priests)

On the occasion of the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, these individuals will be ordained as priests at the end of June. Often, the view of them is limited to the role they are seen to fulfill, the qualities or limitations they are acknowledged to have. However, for many contemporaries, the mission of priests seems little known. This ministry is also marked by suspicions. This particular month invites the 407,000 priests worldwide and the 108,500 seminarians in training to share what personally brings them to life. They are priests in cities among the men and women of our world: a world to love, listen to, a world we need to speak to truthfully, a world to serve. This world consists of faces encountered in our ministries at the heart of cities and countryside. Children, young people, adults, families, the sick, the elderly, some express their joy and happiness during a wedding or baptism, others their sorrow and grief during bereavement, separation, or incarceration.

"Chosen among men, the priest is established to serve mankind." This affirmation from Vatican II is essential to us.

They are priests for the love of Jesus. Our vocation is a story of freedom, a mysterious story: that of fulfilling the Lord's will. The story of a love that has seized us. It is not a matter of an arbitrary destiny that struck us and our families, leading us inevitably to where we are today. It is a love story that has developed in the continuous play of two freedoms: the freedom of God who chooses whom he wishes and our freedom to say "yes". Being a priest only results from entering into the passion of love of Jesus.

They are priests, finally, with a Church on a mission. This mission originates from the Easter Mystery. "The Church exists to evangelize". There is no probably more precise and pressing call than this affirmation from Saint Pope Paul VI. It ties the necessity of the Church and the priestly ministry in our society to its mission of evangelization in connection with you: lay brothers and sisters, deacons, consecrated people... This mission brings them the joy of proclaiming the Gospel, celebrating the sacraments, and leading the entrusted People towards God. For the priests, it is their complete happiness. They are your priests!

Province Individual Statistics (total priests ordained):

• Besançon (1): Saint-Claude: 1
• Bordeaux (2): Bordeaux: 1, Bayonne: 1
• Dijon (1): Nevers: 1
• Lille (5): Arras: 2, Cambrai: 2, Lille: 1
• Lyon (9): Viviers: 2, Valence: 2 (1 from Christ the King Parish Cooperators), Lyon: 3 (2 from the Society of Jesus), Saint-Étienne: 1, Chambéry-Maurienne-Tarentaise: 1
• Marseille (14): Aix: 3, Fréjus-Toulon: 10, Marseille: 1
• Montpellier (3): Carcassonne-Narbonne: 1, Montpellier: 2 (from the Assumptionists)
• Paris (22): Créteil: 3 (1 from the Community of Padre Pio's Children, 1 from the Oblates of France), Meaux: 2, Nanterre: 1, Paris: 16 (4 from the Community of Emmanuel, 1 from MEP, 1 from the Congregation of the Religious of St Vincent de Paul, 1 from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, 1 from the Neocatechumenal Way)
• Poitiers (2): La Rochelle: 2
• Reims (6): Soissons: 1, Troyes: 3 (from the Oblates of St Francis de Sales), Beauvais: 2 (1 from the congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary)
• Rennes (18): Quimper: 1, Vannes: 2, Luçon: 3, Laval: 10 (9 from the Community of Saint-Martin), Nantes: 1, Angers: 1
• Toulouse (3): Toulouse: 2, Rodez: 1 (for Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India)
• Tours (1): Bourges: 1

Direct Vatican: 1 (Mission de France)

Overseas Territories (2):

• Papeete (French Polynesia): 1
• Guyane: 1 (from the Community Mother of Divine Love)

Congregations, Communities, Societies Statistics:

• Jesuits: 2
• Assumptionists: 2
• Congregation of the Religious of St Vincent de Paul: 1
• Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary: 1
• Oblates of France: 1
• Oblates of St Francis de Sales: 3
• Congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary: 1
• Community of Emmanuel: 5
• Neocatechumenal Way: 1
• Community of Padre Pio's Children: 1
• Community of Saint-Martin: 9
• Christ the King Parish Cooperators: 1
• Community Mother of Divine Love: 1
• Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP): 1