Jean Rupp
Vorlage:Short description Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp (13 October 1905 – 28 January 1983) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Monaco from 1962 to 1971 and then worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See until he retired in 1980.
Biography
Jean Rupp was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 13 January 1905. He entered the Saint Sulpice Seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1928. He was ordained a priest on 31 March 1934.[1]
In 1946, in concert with Jean Larnaud, a Catholic layman, and the support of the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), he founded the International Catholic Center for Cooperation with UNESCO (Centre Catholique International de Coopération avec l’UNESCO or CCIC), which launched its operations the next year.[2] In 1947, Pope Pius XII named him to represent the Holy See to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), though as a liaison rather than a formal diplomatic role.[1]
Pope Pius XII appointed him auxiliary bishop of Paris for the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France on 28 October 1954.[3] Pope John XXIII named him the Bishop of Monaco on 9 June 1962Vorlage:Efn and he was enthroned there on 7 October.[4]
Rupp participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council.[5] In 1964 he addressed the Council at length on the lack of Christian solidarity demonstrated in failing to denounce the Armenian Genocide.[6]Vorlage:Efn
On 8 May 1971, Pope Paul VI named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iraq,[7][8] raising him to the rank of archbishop,[9] and then added the title Pro-Nuncio to Kuwait on 4 March 1975.[10]
On 13 July 1978, a month before his death, Paul VI appointed Rupp the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.[1][11] He retired from this post on 5 July 1980[5] and Edoardo Rovida succeeded him in this post on 7 March 1981.[12]
In 1980, when Rupp turned 75, the standard age for a prelate to retire from active ministry, Pope John Paul II named him a canon of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. Rupp died in Rome on 28 January 1983[13] and was buried in that basilica on 31 January.
Writings
- L’idée de chrétienté dans la pensée pontificale des origins à Innocent III, Presses modernes, 1939
- Brésil, espoir chrétien, Spes, 1965
- Explorations œcuméniques, Pastorelly, 1967
- Héros chrétiens de l’est. Hommage au déporté Kolbe, 1972
- Message ecclésial de Solowiew. Présage et illustration de Vatican II., Lethielleux, Paris and Brussels, 1975
- Un levier pour l’œcuménisme: Wladimir Solowiew, Lethielleux, 1975
- Histoire de l’Église de Paris, 1948 réédition Robert laffont, 1992
- Un évêque revient d'U.R.S.S.
- Lumière à l'Est, Pastorelly, 1969
- Docteur pour nos temps: Catherine et Thérèse, Lethielleux , 1971
Notes
References
- ↑ a b c Les orateurs de la séance commémorative In: Cahiers Lituanuens. Abgerufen im 30 June 2019 (französisch).
- ↑ Création du Centre Catholique International de Coopération avec l’UNESCO. In: Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO. 31. Oktober 1978, abgerufen am 30. Juni 2019.
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedia. 1958, S. 405 (vatican.va [PDF]).
- ↑ Intronisation de S. Exc. Mgr. Jean Rupp, nouvel Évêque de Monaco In: Journal de Monaco, 15 October 1962, S. 791 (französisch).
- ↑ a b Archbishop Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp. In: Catholic Hierarchy. Abgerufen am 30. Juni 2019.
- ↑ L'Évêque de Monaco Invité en Arménie Soviétique In: Le Monde. Abgerufen im 29 June 2019 (französisch).
- ↑ Mgr Jean Rupp est Nommé Pro-Nonce Apostolique en Irak In: Le Monde, 12 May 1971 (französisch).
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedia. 1971, S. 398 (vatican.va [PDF]).
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedia. 1973, S. 170 (vatican.va [PDF]).
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedia. 1975, S. 386 (vatican.va [PDF]).
- ↑ L’origine transcendante de la personne humaine: Mgr Jean Rupp à la 20e session de la Conférence Générale de l’UNESCO. In: Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO. 31. Oktober 1978, abgerufen am 30. Juni 2019.
- ↑ Vescovi di Sicilia. In: Catholic Church in Sicily. Abgerufen am 28. Juni 2019.
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedia. 1983, S. 180 (vatican.va [PDF]).