He is considered to be a leader in the liberal wing of the French bishops.

Gaillot was the only French bishop participating in this ceremony.

This included 30 French bishops and roughly 3000 priests.

The French bishops informed the worker-priests that they must return to their parishes.

Furthermore French bishops from distant missions would speak in parishes about their work when they returned home.

Philip ultimately obtained an annulment through an assembly of French bishops.

In the following years, other French bishops entrusted parishes to the Community.

In 1884 he told French bishops not to act in a hostile manner to the State.

The French bishops were initially cautious in speaking out against mistreatment of Jews.

His sources, for he never left Jarrow, included a shipwrecked French bishop who had been there.