Father Jean-Louis Déclais was born in 1953. He is French and lives in the diocese of Oran (Algeria) since 1978.
After completing his training in Biblical studies, he taught exegesis in Normandy, and then completed a degree in Islamic studies.
His current studies focus on the reception of the Biblical tradition in the Islamic literature of the stories of the prophets (qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ).