Émile André Jean-Marie Maury (22 May 1907 – 5 January 1994), sometimes called Jean-Marie Maury or Jean Baptiste Maury, was a French prelate of the

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who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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and was

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from 1968 to 1972.

Biography

Maury was born on 22 May 1907 in

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and ordained a priest on 29 June 1932. He was appointed coadjutor bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes and

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of Elis on 20 December 1957. He was

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bishop on 3 February 1958 by Cardinal

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. On 9 July 1959, he was appointed

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and was named

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to Dakar, a jurisdiction established in 1948 with responsibility for French colonial Africa. The position was rechristened Apostolic Delegate to Western African on 23 September 1960 and given responsibility for Senegal, Upper Volta, Cote d'Ivoire, Dahomey, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Togo, Ghana, Gambia, and Sierra Leone. On 28 December 1961 his status with respect to one of those countries changed when he was named

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. He was given new assignments in 1965: as Apostolic Nuncio to the

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on 11 June, to

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on 16 June, and to

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on 2 September. In 1967, he renounced the last two nunciatures, continuing as Nuncio to the Congo until he left the diplomatic service the next year. On 25 June 1968, he was appointed

. He retired on 16 December 1972 for health reasons. He died on 5 January 1994.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Jean Émile André Marie Maury
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