Comment: Evidently they don't feel the need to wear them, despite government attempts to convince them otherwise.
The pair were detained on Thursday over the service at the Saint-Eugene-Sainte-Cecile church in Paris on April 3, and an investigation into the incident has been launched, according to French broadcaster BFM TV. Prosecutors confirmed the arrests to local media.
The clergymen's alleged Covid-related breaches include "deliberately endangering the life of others," "not wearing a mask," and holding a "gathering of more than six people."
Video footage of the church proceedings shared online by French daily Le Parisien showed the congregation packed tightly together and dozens of people coming forward to receive communion.
A spokesperson for the diocese confirmed that 280 people had been present in the 600-capacity building, and that an internal investigation led by the archbishop has been launched.
As the Easter service began, the rules of France's third national lockdown - including a ban on gatherings of more than six people - had already come into force.
The strict measures were imposed in response to climbing intensive care admissions for Covid-19 patients, and are due to last for four weeks from April 3.
Comment: This is just the latest in a score of incidents where police have intimidated churches over the Easter period; in London a holiday service was shutdown by police who claimed it contravened lockdown restrictions; meanwhile, over in Alberta, Canada, one priest had his church raided by police in retaliation for his defiance of Easter lockdown orders, and, at another church in the region, a priest with Polish heritage went viral after chasing the police out of his church, decrying them as 'Nazi's'.