Jean-Baptiste Gourion

Jean -Baptiste Gurion OSB ( born October 24, 1934 in Oran, † 23 June 2005 in Jerusalem ) was a Benedictine abbot of Jewish origin and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Life

Jean -Louis Gurion was born into a Jewish family, went to Oran to school and studied in Paris. On April 5, 1958, he received the Benedictine Abbey of Le Bec (France) Christian baptism and entered 1961 in this monastery. On December 12, 1965, he was ordained a priest. In 1976 he went with two brothers to Israel, where he founded the Arab village of Abu Gosh near the ruins of a Crusader church, a Benedictine monastery, as its head, he worked in the following period. After collection of the monastery to the Abbey, he was ordained on 11 July 1999 Abt.

In 1990, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem appointed him as Patriarchal Vicar for the small Catholic community in the Hebrew language in the Holy Land ( L'Oeuvre de Saint Jacques l' Apôtre ). On 14 August 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed Titular Bishop of Lydda and suffragan of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem for the local Hebrew- Catholic community. Patriarch Michel Sabbah gave him a bishop on September 9, 2003. Were co-consecrators president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, and the Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine, Archbishop Pietro Sambi.