Paul Gouyon

Paul -Joseph -Marie Cardinal Gouyon ( born October 24, 1910 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, † September 26, 2000 ) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Rennes.

Life

He studied at the University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux seminar. He attended the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Institut Catholique de Paris. On March 13, 1937 he was ordained a priest and graduated from in 1939. After serving in the French army during the Second World War from 1939 to 1940, he began his pastoral work in Bordeaux, first as pastor of Montussan and Beychac ( 1940-1944 ), chaplain of the Lycée Michel Montaigne ( 1944-1951 ), and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux. On April 6, 1955, he was named Honorary Prelate of His Holiness.

Pope Pius XII. appointed him on August 6, 1957 to the Bishop of Bayonne. The Archbishop of Bordeaux, Paul- Marie André Richaud, donated to him on 7 October of the same year at St. Andrew's Cathedral, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Joseph -Marie -Eugène Martin, Archbishop of Rouen, and Louis -Jean Guyot, bishop of Coutances. He participated in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council. Paul VI. appointed him on August 6, 1963 Koadjutorerzbischof of Rennes and Titular Archbishop of Pessinus. After the death of Clément -Emile Roques he succeeded him as Archbishop of Rennes on September 4, 1964.

Paul VI. took him on 28 April 1969 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of the Nativity of Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia to the College of Cardinals. He took part in the August and October 1978 at the conclave. He also became the national president of Pax Christi. On 15 October 1985 John Paul II accepted his resignation on the basis of the age limit. Ten years later, Cardinal Gouyon died, barely a month before his 90th birthday. He is buried in the cemetery of the Mother House of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Saint- Pern.