Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp (13 October 1905 – 28 January 1983) was a French prelate of the

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who served as Bishop of Monaco from 1962 to 1971 and then worked in the diplomatic service of the

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until he retired in 1980.

Biography

Jean Rupp was born in

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on 13 October 1905. He entered the Saint Sulpice Seminary of

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in 1928. He was ordained a priest on 31 March 1934. 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. In 1947,

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named him to represent the Holy See to the

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(UNESCO), though as a liaison rather than a formal diplomatic role.

appointed him auxiliary bishop of Paris for the

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on 28 October 1954.

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named him the Bishop of Monaco on 9 June 1962 and he was enthroned there on 7 October. Rupp participated in all four sessions of the

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. In 1964 he addressed the Council at length on the lack of Christian solidarity demonstrated in failing to denounce the

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. He was appreciated for his concern for oecumenism with the Anglican Church as well. Rupp was a member of the conservative '' Coetus Internationalis Patrum''. On 8 May 1971,

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named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to

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, raising him to the rank of archbishop, and then added the title Pro-Nuncio to

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on 4 March 1975. 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. He retired from this post on 5 July 1980 and Edoardo Rovida succeeded him in this post. In 1980, when Rupp turned 75, the standard age for a prelate to retire from active ministry,

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named him a canon of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. Rupp died in Rome on 28 January 1983 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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rupp, John 1905 births 1983 deaths Bishops of Monaco Auxiliary bishops of Paris Apostolic nuncios to Iraq Apostolic nuncios to Kuwait People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye Permanent observers of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva