Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux (2 April 1910 – 27 September 1999) was a

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who held diplomatic posts of the

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Biography

Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux was born in Roubaix,

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, on 2 April 1910, one of ten children born to Achille Glorieux (1883–1965), an industrial leader prominent in the Catholic social movement that promoted large families to fight underpopulation. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1934. While working in Rome at the Secretariat of State, he was also the Vatican correspondent for the French daily ''

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'' in the 1930s. He fled Italy after the declaration of war between Italy and France in 1940 and continued his work from Limoges. He returned to Rome in 1945 and managed the French-language edition of ''

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''.

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named him secretary of the commission responsible for planning the

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. There he played a key role–as a ''cheville-ouvrière'' or linchpin–in recruiting lay organizations to contribute to the commission's work.

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appointed him Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in July 1966. In that role he wrote a study of the Council’s declaration on the role of the laity in the Church, '' Apostolicam Actuositatem''. Although Glorieux had neither trained in the traditional manner nor followed the customary career path of a senior Vatican diplomat, Pope Paul appointed him

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of Beverlacum and

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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

on 19 September 1969. His episcopal consecration took place on 9 November 1969; the principal

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was

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, Cardinal Secretary of State, and the principal co-consecrators were Alberto Castelli, Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand, Bishop of Lille. Glorieux was appointed the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to

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on 3 August 1973 and resigned the post in 1984. In 1985 he preached the Lenten spiritual exercises for the Roman Curia. He died in Lille on 27 September 1999, aged 89.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux
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