Henri Le Floch

Father Henri Le Floch was a Spiritan and the rector of the French Seminary (Collège Français) in Rome in the early 20th century until the late 1920s.^[1]

He is chiefly remembered for the formative influence he had on Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the traditionalist Roman Catholic Society of Saint Pius X.^[2] He was suspected as a supporter of the right-wing political group Action Française, and his political views led to his removal from his position at the French College at the request of the French government.^[3]

References

1. In a profoundly Catholic seminary of this sort Marcel Lefebvre received his preparation for the Holy Priesthood in the 1920s during the reign of Pope Pius XI — at the prestigious French seminary of Rome, then under the direction of the distinguished Father Henri Le Floch, of the Holy Ghost Fathers The Society of Pius X, Douglas Laudenschlager, The Angelus, February 1979
2. Archbishop Lefebvre readily admitted that were it not for the solid formation he received from Fr. Le Floch, he too might have succumbed to the creeping liberalism of the age. I have handed on what I have received by John Vennari, published in The Angelus [August 2005]
3. White, David Allen (2006). The Horn of the Unicorn. Arlington: Angelus Press. ISBN 978-1-892331-39-7.