1. Jean-Pierre Ricard was born on 26 September 1944 and is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Bordeaux from 2001 to 2019.
23 Facts About Jean-Pierre Ricard
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was previously Bishop of Montpellier for five years and before that an auxiliary bishop in Grenoble.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard studied philosophy at the Major Seminary of Marseille from 1962 to 1964.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard spent one year performing National Service to promote development in Bamako, Mali.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard studied at the Carmes Seminary in Paris, and the Institut Catholique de Paris, earning a degree in theology and preparing for a doctorate.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was ordained a priest on 5 October 1968 in Marseille and did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Marseille from 1968 to 1993.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was assistant pastor of the parish of Sainte-Emilie de Vialoar from 1970 to 1978 with responsibility for religious teaching, the formation of priests and laymen.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard headed the Mistral Center of Religious Culture from 1975 to 1981 and was diocesan delegate for seminarians from 1975 to 1985.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was regional theologian for pastoral affairs and general secretary of the Diocesan Synod of Marseille, and vicar general from 1988 to 1993 to Cardinal Robert Coffy, Archbishop of Marseille.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was named titular bishop of Pulcheriopoli and appointed auxiliary bishop of Grenoble on 17 April 1993.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard received his episcopal consecration on 6 June 1993 at the cathedral of Sainte-Marie-Majeure, Marseille, from Cardinal Coffy.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was elected to a three-year term as president of the Conference on 6 November 2001 and re-elected to another term in 2004.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard gave a series of interviews that appeared as a book, Les Sept Defis pour l'Eglise in 2003.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was made Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agostino in the consistory of 24 March 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was appointed to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the commission responsible for relations with the Society of Saint Pius X on 8 April 2006.
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In 2006, as president of the French Bishops Conference, Jean-Pierre Ricard objected to the recent authorization of the use of human embryos for scientific research in France and elsewhere in Europe.
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In 2009 Jean-Pierre Ricard told the newspaper La Croix that the Pope Benedict wanted to reconcile all Catholics by allowing a wider use of the Traditional Latin Mass, which does not undermine the achievements of Vatican Council II.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that elected Pope Francis.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard closed the Archdiocese's Saint Joseph seminary in May 2019 because enrollment failed to meet the minimum number of seminarians required.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard said its seminarians can continue their studies and spiritual formation in Toulouse or Rome and that the closure was part of a national assessment of the country's many small seminaries.
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On that occasion, Jean-Pierre Ricard praised the city for fostering collaboration between civic authorities and the leaders of its religious communities.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard said he anticipated retiring as Archbishop of Bordeaux in a few weeks and returning to his native region.
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Margron said she feared Jean-Pierre Ricard was minimizing what he had done, that she expected the Church to take disciplinary action and that he should be denied his right as a cardinal to participate in a papal election.