Sometimes accused of bad faith, the Rabastinese will convince themselves that the irresistible accession of Sébastien Diancoff to the post of vicar general of the bishopric of Albi is linked to his double visit to the Rabastinese country. Affirmation that, a fine strategist, does not deny the one who remains until the end of August the parish priest of Saint-Vincent de Paul (Rabastens, Saint-Sulpice, Salvagnac). “I did my pastoral integration internship here between 2003 and 2006 and I returned as pastor in 2015.” It was in 1995, during a religious gathering in Chartres with young people from Brassac, his town of origin, that then studying law he was touched by his vocation. “The trickiest thing was to explain it to my family at first.” He joined the Saint-Cyprien seminary in Toulouse and was ordained a priest in 2007. He made his debut in Albi then appointed vicar in Castres, he worked a lot on the Eucharistic Youth Movement and the hospitality of Lourdes with Philippe Basquin as parish priest . Who is called to succeed him at the helm of the parish of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul where he will arrive in a few days. For his part, the young fifty-something who begins to integrate that from this autumn he will have to put on the costume of “1st minister of the bishop” with the mission of assisting him on specific missions such as youth ministry, retains from his passage to Rabastens. “I lived the wonderful saga of the 700 years of Notre-Dame du-Bourg, which allowed me to meet people very attached to the cultural and religious heritage of the town.” And to specify that apart from the extraordinary reception of the abbot Paul Guiral, he is delighted “of the ecumenism and the openness of some of his interlocutors as during the cinés debates.” President of the Friends of Saint-Pierre-des-Blancs, Jo Vallax specifies: “Sébastien is a man of dialogue very attentive to his neighbor, he is very close to the young people who trust him. He will be greatly missed!”
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