Bernard Jacqueline

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Bernard Henri René Jacqueline (born March 13, 1918 in Saint-Lô , Department Manche , France , † February 26, 2007 ibid) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman , archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See .

Life

Bernard Jacqueline graduated in literary studies and philosophy (1935), in scholasticism (1936) and between 1938 and 1946 other degrees in French, Latin, Greek, ethics and social sciences and medieval studies . In 1944 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Catholic theology . He received in the March 12, 1944 Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris , the priesthood for the Diocese of Coutances . From 1944 to 1951 he was in pastoral careactive, also from 1947 to 1951 professor of philosophy at the Collège Saint Paul de Cherbourg. In 1949 he was at the Institut Catholique de Paris in canon law with the work ecclésiastique Essai du Droit médiéval doctorate ; In 1971 he received his doctorate in the humanities with distinction on the thesis Episcopat et Papauté chez Saint Bernard de Clairvaux at the Sorbonne in Paris . From 1952 he was chaplain at the French national church San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome and in various functions at the Roman Curia . On April 24, 1982 he was appointed titular archbishop of Abbir Maius by John Paul II and appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Burundi , succeeding Donato Squicciarini . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli on 10 June of the same year in St. Peter's Basilica ; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishop and later Cardinal Achille Silvestrini and Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples . On March 20, 1986, he became Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Morocco, succeeding Sante Portalupi .

On May 22, 1993 Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation because of his age. Bishop Jacqueline has lived in Saint-Lô since then.

He was a member of various scientific and philosophical organizations; In 1987 he was awarded the “Prix du Cardinal Grente” of the Prix de l'Académie française.

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