Jean-Marie Villot

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Cardinal Secretary of State Jean-Marie Villot (1978)
Villot's coat of arms as Camerlengo during the 1978 Sedis vacancies
Villots cardinal coat of arms

Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot (born October 11, 1905 in Saint-Amant-Tallende , France , † March 9, 1979 in Rome , Italy ) was Cardinal Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979 and also Camerlengo of the Roman Catholic Church from 1970 .

Life

Jean-Marie Villot studied philosophy and theology in Riom , Clermont and Lyon . For a short time he was in the novitiate of the Marist Fathers . At the Institut Catholique de Paris he completed a study of canon law and in 1934 at the Angelicum in Rome a theological doctorate with the dissertation Le pape Nicolas II et le décret de 1059 sur l'élection pontificale .

Villot was ordained a priest on April 19, 1930 by Alfred Baudrillart , Rector of the ICP in Paris . In 1950 he became general secretary of the French Bishops' Conference and on September 2, 1954, Pope Pius XII appointed him . as auxiliary bishop in Paris and titular bishop of Vinda . On 12 October 1954 he received by the Archbishop of Paris, Maurice Cardinal Feltin , the episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Cambrai , Emile Maurice Guerry (fr) , and the Bishop of Clermont , Pierre de La Chanonie (fr) . On December 17, 1959, Villot was appointed by Pope John XXIII. appointed coadjutor of the Archbishop of Lyon and titular Archbishop of Bosporus . His motto was: Auxilium a Domino (Help from the Lord).

From 1962 to 1965 he was secretary of the Second Vatican Council . With the death of Pierre-Marie Gerliers on January 17, 1965, he succeeded him as Archbishop of Lyon. Pope Paul VI took him on February 22, 1965 as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio in the college of cardinals . Two years later, on April 7, 1967, Paul VI appointed he was made Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and on May 2, 1969 Cardinal Secretary of State.

On October 16, 1970 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed Camerlengo (Cardinal Chamberlain) and on July 15, 1971 also President of the newly created Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" . On December 12, 1974, Paul VI. him Cardinal Bishop of Frascati . On September 4, 1978 Villot resigned as president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".

He died in Rome in March 1979 as the acting Cardinal Secretary of State from complications from pneumonia.

honors and awards

Apostolic succession

The Apostolic Succession from Cardinal Villot is documented up to Cardinal Scipione Rebiba :

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Commons : Jean-Marie Villot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier Archbishop of Lyon
Coadjutor Archbishop 1959–1965
Diocesan Archbishop 1965–1967 		Alexandre-Charles Cardinal Renard
Pietro Cardinal Ciriaci Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
1967–1969 		John Joseph Cardinal Wright
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani Prefect of the property administration of the Apostolic See
1969–1979 		Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani Cardinal Secretary of State
1969–1979 		Cardinal Agostino Casaroli
Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella Cardinal Chamberlain
1970–1979 		Cardinal Paolo Bertoli
--- President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
1971–1978 		Bernardin Cardinal Gantin
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1974–1979 		Cardinal Paolo Bertoli
personal data
SURNAME Villot, Jean-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Villot, Jean-Marie Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, cardinal and camerlengo of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Amant-Tallende , France
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1979
Place of death Rome