1. Jean-Louis Tauran was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014.
26 Facts About Jean-Louis Tauran
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Jean-Louis Tauran studied at Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome and Catholic University of Toulouse, France.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marius Maziers on 20 September 1969 and worked as a curate in the Archdiocese of Bordeaux before entering the Vatican's diplomatic service in 1975.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was secretary of the nunciatures to the Dominican Republic and to Lebanon.
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Jean-Louis Tauran became an official of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church in 1983, and then participated in special missions in Haiti, and Beirut and Damascus.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was a member of the Vatican delegation to the meetings of the Conference on European Security and Cooperation, Conference on Disarmament in Stockholm, and Cultural Forum in Budapest and later Vienna.
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On 1 December 1990, Jean-Louis Tauran was appointed Secretary for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State and Titular Archbishop of Thelepte by Pope John Paul II.
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Jean-Louis Tauran received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1991 from John Paul II himself, with Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Justin Francis Rigali serving as co-consecrators, in St Peter's Basilica.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was created Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 21 October 2003.
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In late 2003, Jean-Louis Tauran drew attention to the "second-class" treatment of non-Muslims in "many Muslim countries", especially Saudi Arabia.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was one of the cardinal electors in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.
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Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran exercised his option to be promoted to cardinal-priest and accordingly on 12 June 2014, Pope Francis elevated Jean-Louis Tauran to the title of Cardinal-Priest.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was succeeded as Protodeacon by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was a friend of Anglican John Andrew, former rector of St Thomas Church in New York City.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was a friend of the Anglican priest Roger Greenacre, former precentor of Chichester Cathedral in England.
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For Greenacre's fiftieth anniversary of his ordination at Michaelmas of 2005, Jean-Louis Tauran traveled to Chichester and served as a guest preacher.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was present at Greenacre's Memorial Requiem at Chichester Cathedral on 23 September 2011.
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Jean-Louis Tauran described his role as president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, saying:.
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Pope Francis named Jean-Louis Tauran to replace Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church on 20 December 2014.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was sworn in as Camerlengo, in the presence of Pope Francis, on 9 March 2015.
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Jean-Louis Tauran showed evidence of Parkinson's disease as early as 2003, but his condition had stabilized sufficiently by 2007 for him to take on the Pontifical Council presidency.
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Jean-Louis Tauran died aged 75 on 5 July 2018 in Hartford, Connecticut, where he had been hospitalized for treatment of Parkinson's.
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Jean-Louis Tauran's remains were transferred to Rome where he received the customary funeral rites of a cardinal of the Roman Curia.
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Jean-Louis Tauran was a "fierce critic" of US plans to invade Iraq in 2003, which he said would constitute a "crime against peace" and a violation of international law.
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Jean-Louis Tauran lamented the fact that relations with Islam so dominated interreligious dialogue, and that all religions needed to be addressed on equal terms with none assigned second-class status.