Jean Rupp

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.{{cite news | access-date = 30 June 2019 |language= fr | url = http://www.cahiers-lituaniens.org/Saint_Casimir_1958_Paris/orateurs.htm | title = Les orateurs de la séance commémorative |work = Cahiers Lituanuens }}

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.{{cite web | website = Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO | url = https://www.assau.org/l-origine-transcendante-de-la | access-date = 30 June 2019 | title = Création du Centre Catholique International de Coopération avec l'UNESCO | date = 31 October 1978}} 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.

Pope Pius XII appointed him auxiliary bishop of Paris for the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France on 28 October 1954.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedia | date= 1958 | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-50-1958-ocr.pdf | page= 405}} Pope John XXIII named him the Bishop of Monaco on 9 June 1962{{efn|Monaco was not elevated to the status of archdiocese until 1981.}} and he was enthroned there on 7 October.{{cite news | work = Journal de Monaco | language = fr| url = https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/content/download/60177/1400053/ | page= 791| title = Intronisation de S. Exc. Mgr. Jean Rupp, nouvel Évêque de Monaco | date= 15 October 1962}}

Rupp participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. In 1964 he addressed the Council at length on the lack of Christian solidarity demonstrated in failing to denounce the Armenian genocide.{{cite news | url = https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1965/10/22/l-eveque-de-monaco-invite-en-armenie-sovietique_2195609_1819218.html | access-date = 29 June 2019 | language = fr |work = Le Monde | title = L'Évêque de Monaco Invité en Arménie Soviétique}}{{efn|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.}} He was appreciated for his concern for oecumenism with the Anglican Church as well.{{Cite book|last=Moorman|first=John Richard Humpidge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt4eAQAAMAAJ&q=vatican+monaco|title=Vatican Observed: An Anglican Impression of Vatican II|date=1967|publisher=Darton, Longman & Todd|language=en|page=99}} Rupp was a member of the conservative Coetus Internationalis Patrum.

On 8 May 1971, Pope Paul VI named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iraq,{{cite news | language= fr | work = Le Monde | url = https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1971/05/12/mgr-jean-rupp-est-nomme-pro-nonce-apostolique-en-irak_2477113_1819218.html | title = Mgr Jean Rupp est Nommé Pro-Nonce Apostolique en Irak| date= 12 May 1971 }}{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedia | date= 1971 | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-63-1971-ocr.pdf | page=398 }} raising him to the rank of archbishop,{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedia | date= 1973 | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-65-1973-ocr.pdf | page= 170}} and then added the title Pro-Nuncio to Kuwait on 4 March 1975.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedia | date= 1975 | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-67-1975-ocr.pdf | page= 386}}

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.{{cite web | website = Les Amis du Saint Siège auprès de l'UNESCO | url = https://www.assau.org/l-origine-transcendante-de-la | access-date = 30 June 2019 | title = L'origine transcendante de la personne humaine: Mgr Jean Rupp à la 20e session de la Conférence Générale de l'UNESCO | date = 31 October 1978}} He retired from this post on 5 July 1980{{cite web | website = Catholic Hierarchy | access-date = 30 June 2019 |url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brupp.html| title= Archbishop Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp}} and Edoardo Rovida succeeded him in this post.{{cite web | access-date = 28 June 2019 | url = https://tentamina.com/info/ | title = Vescovi di Sicilia | website = Catholic Church in Sicily | archive-date = 30 October 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201030111459/https://tentamina.com/info/ | url-status = dead }}

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{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedia | date= 1983 | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-75-1983-I-ocr.pdf | page= 180}} and was buried in that basilica on 31 January.

• L’idée de chrétienté dans la pensée pontificale des origins à Innocent III, Presses modernes, 1939
• Brésil, espoir chrétien, Spes, 1965
• Explorations œcuméniques, Pastorelly, 1967
• Héros chrétiens de l’est. Hommage au déporté Kolbe, 1972
• Message ecclésial de Solowiew. Présage et illustration de Vatican II., Lethielleux, Paris and Brussels, 1975
• Un levier pour l’œcuménisme: Wladimir Solowiew, Lethielleux, 1975
• Histoire de l’Église de Paris, 1948 réédition Robert laffont, 1992
• Un évêque revient d'U.R.S.S.
• Lumière à l'Est, Pastorelly, 1969
• Docteur pour nos temps: Catherine et Thérèse, Lethielleux , 1971

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