1. Gabriel-Marie Garrone was a French Catholic prelate who served as president of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1982 to 1988.
15 Facts About Gabriel-Marie Garrone
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone previously served as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education from 1968 to 1980.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1967.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone entered the seminary and was educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and later, at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was ordained on 11 April 1925 and served as a faculty member of the Minor Seminary of Chambery until 1926 when he was a faculty member of the Major Seminary until 1939.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone did pastoral work in the archdiocese of Chambery during these years.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was an officer in the French Army during World War II and a prisoner of war.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone succeeded to the metropolitan see of Toulouse on 5 November 1956.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome from 1962 until 1965.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Prefect of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities by Pope Paul VI on 28 January 1966.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was transferred to the titular see of Torri di Numidia on 24 March 1966.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina in the consistory of 26 June 1967.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone lost the right to participate in any future conclaves when he turned 80 years of age in 1981.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone was appointed as the first President of the newly established Pontifical Council for Culture on 20 May 1982.
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Gabriel-Marie Garrone died in 1994 and was buried temporarily at the Campo Verano, Rome, awaiting completion of his definitive tomb in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi.