Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp (13 October 1905 – 28 January 1983) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Monaco from 1962 to 1971 and then worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See until he retired in 1980.

Biography

Jean Rupp was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 13 October 1905. He entered the Saint Sulpice Seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1928. He was ordained a priest on 31 March 1934.[1]

In 1946, in concert with Jean Larnaud, a Catholic layman, and the support of the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), he founded the International Catholic Center for Cooperation with UNESCO (Centre Catholique International de Coopération avec l’UNESCO or CCIC), which launched its operations the next year.[2] In 1947, Pope Pius XII named him to represent the Holy See to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), though as a liaison rather than a formal diplomatic role.[1]

Pope Pius XII appointed him auxiliary bishop of Paris for the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France on 28 October 1954.[3] Pope John XXIII named him the Bishop of Monaco on 9 June 1962[a] and he was enthroned there on 7 October.[4]

Rupp participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council.[5] In 1964 he addressed the Council at length on the lack of Christian solidarity demonstrated in failing to denounce the Armenian genocide.[6][b] He was appreciated for his concern for oecumenism with the Anglican Church as well.[7] Rupp was a member of the conservative Coetus Internationalis Patrum.

On 8 May 1971, Pope Paul VI named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iraq,[8][9] raising him to the rank of archbishop,[10] and then added the title Pro-Nuncio to Kuwait on 4 March 1975.[11]

On 13 July 1978, a month before his death, Paul VI appointed Rupp the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.[1][12] He retired from this post on 5 July 1980[5] and Edoardo Rovida succeeded him in this post.[13]

In 1980, when Rupp turned 75, the standard age for a prelate to retire from active ministry, Pope John Paul II named him a canon of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. Rupp died in Rome on 28 January 1983[14] and was buried in that basilica on 31 January.

Writings

Notes

  1. ^ Monaco was not elevated to the status of archdiocese until 1981.
  2. ^ This resulted in a two-week visit to the Soviet Union in 1965, prompted by an invitation from Vazgen I to attend the celebration marking the tenth anniversary of his election to head the Armenian national church.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Les orateurs de la séance commémorative". Cahiers Lituanuens (in French). Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Création du Centre Catholique International de Coopération avec l'UNESCO". Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO. 31 October 1978. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  3. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). 1958. p. 405.
  4. ^ "Intronisation de S. Exc. Mgr. Jean Rupp, nouvel Évêque de Monaco". Journal de Monaco (in French). 15 October 1962. p. 791.
  5. ^ a b "Archbishop Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b "L'Évêque de Monaco Invité en Arménie Soviétique". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  7. ^ Moorman, John Richard Humpidge (1967). Vatican Observed: An Anglican Impression of Vatican II. Darton, Longman & Todd. p. 99.
  8. ^ "Mgr Jean Rupp est Nommé Pro-Nonce Apostolique en Irak". Le Monde (in French). 12 May 1971.
  9. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). 1971. p. 398.
  10. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). 1973. p. 170.
  11. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). 1975. p. 386.
  12. ^ "L'origine transcendante de la personne humaine: Mgr Jean Rupp à la 20e session de la Conférence Générale de l'UNESCO". Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO. 31 October 1978. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Vescovi di Sicilia". Catholic Church in Sicily. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  14. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). 1983. p. 180.


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