François Touvet

François Touvet (born 13 May 1965) is a French Catholic prelate who became Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon in 2025 after serving for more than a year as coadjutor there. He was previously Bishop of Châlons from 2015 to 2023.

Biography François Touvet was born in Paris on 13 May 1965 He is the brother of Laurent Touvet, a senior civil servant, and the brother-in-law of General Pierre de Villiers.

He attended the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague and the Saint-Cyr military academy before studying in England for a year. He entered the seminary of Paray-le-Monial and continued his studies in Besançon and Lyon. he obtained his master's degree in theology at the Catholic University of Lyon in 1992. He also served as chaplain to units of the French army from 2011 to 2015. He received his episcopal consecration at Saint-Étienne Cathedral in Châlons-en-Champagne on 28 February 2016

On 21 November 2023, he was named coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. He was assigned most of the authority of an ordinary, rather than the role of an auxiliary which is customary for a coadjutor, specifically "the special powers of the diocesan government in the areas of administration, management of the clergy, training of seminarians and priests, support of institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, and associations of the faithful".

He was seated in Toulon on 10 December. He announced an end to the Vatican's restrictions on ordinations in the Diocese that were set on 28 April 2022, and he announced that priestly ordinations are scheduled for 21 January and 29 June 2024.

Touvet succeeded as bishop when Pope Francis accepted his predecessor's resignation on 7 January 2025.