Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu ( ; 26 January 1931 – 12 November 2017) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

from 1995 until his retirement in 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2003.

Biography

Panafieu was born on 26 January 1931 in Châtellerault and ordained on 22 April 1956 for the archdiocese of

Albi Albi (; oc, Albi ) is a commune in southern France. It is the prefecture of the Tarn department, on the river Tarn, 85 km northeast of Toulouse. Its inhabitants are called ''Albigensians'' (french: Albigeois, Albigeoise(s), oc, albig ...

, where he served as a vicar and chaplain of the lyceum La Pérouse. He was also the chaplain of the university parish, chaplain of students in Toulouse, 1967–1970 and secretary general of the

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from 1973 to 1974. He was appointed

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and auxiliary bishop of Annecy on 18 April 1974 and consecrated bishop on 9 June by Claude Dupuy, Archbishop of Albi. He was named Archbishop of

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on 30 November 1978. He was named coadjutor bishop of

on 24 August 1994 and became archbishop there on 22 April 1995. He served as the first

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when Marseille was elevated to that status on 16 December 2002. In the

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he served as President of the Episcopal Committee for Inter-religious Relations and New Religious Trends, President of the Secretariat for Religious Relations with Islam, and a member of the Episcopal Commission for the Universal Mission of the Church. He was created Cardinal-Priest of

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in the consistory of 2003 by

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. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected

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. Pope Benedict accepted his resignation on 12 May 2006 and Panafieu retired to

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Carpentras Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; la, Carpentoracte) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. ...

on 12 November 2017, aged 86.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Panafieu, Bernard 1931 births 2017 deaths 21st-century French cardinals Archbishops of Aix Archbishops of Marseille 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II