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Jean-Marie Villot was born on 11 October, 1905 in Saint-Amant-Tallende, Puy-de-Dôme, France, is a Roman Catholic cardinal. Discover Jean-Marie Villot's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 11 October 1905
Birthday 11 October
Birthplace Saint-Amant-Tallende, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Date of death 1979
Died Place Vatican City
Nationality France

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1905

Jean-Marie Villot (11 October 1905 – 9 March 1979) was a French prelate and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1967 to 1969, Vatican Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979, and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1970 to 1979.

He was born on 11 October 1905 in Saint-Amant-Tallende, Puy-de-Dôme, to Joseph and Marie (née Laville) Villot; he was an only child.

1924

Before serving in the military until 2 August 1924, he studied for the priesthood in Riom, Clermont, and Lyon.

1925

He became a Marist novice on 7 September 1925, but left the order three months later.

1930

He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Paris on 19 April 1930 by Archbishop Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, rector of the Institut Catholique.

1931

From 1931 to 1934, he served as secretary to Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Bishop of Tarbes-et-Lourdes.

1934

He then studied at the Catholic Institute of Paris and the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum in Rome, where he earned a licentiate in canon law and a doctorate in sacred theology in 1934 with a thesis entitled Le pape Nicolas II et le décret de 1059 sur l'élection pontificale.

1942

He taught at the Clermont seminary and the Catholic University in Lyon, serving as vice-rector of the latter from 1942 to 1950.

1950

At the start of 1950 he was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Lyon.

1954

Pope Pius XII appointed Villot auxiliary bishop of Paris and titular bishop of Vinda on 2 September 1954.

He received his episcopal consecration on 12 October from Cardinal Maurice Feltin, with Archbishop Emile Guerry

of Cambrai and Bishop Pierre de la Chanonie of Clermont as co-consecrators.

1959

On 17 December 1959, he was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Lyon and titular archbishop of Bosporus.

1965

He was made a cardinal in 1965.

He succeeded Cardinal Gerlier as Archbishop of Lyon on 17 January 1965.

During the Second Vatican Council, he served as one of several of the council's undersecretaries, where his performance impressed Pope Paul.

On 22 February 1965, he was created Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio by Pope Paul VI.

1967

He was named Prefect of the Congregation of the Council (later renamed the Congregation for the Clergy) on 7 April 1967.

1969

Two years later, on 2 May 1969, he was named Cardinal Secretary of State as part of Pope Paul's program to internationalize the Roman Curia.

Though Villot told reporters "I have long been a Roman at heart", his appointment was resented by the Italians though without public conflict.

Pope Paul underscored his stance by adding to Villot's portfolio in May 1969, naming him head of the Section if the Secretariat of State responsible for foreign affairs, expanding his control over broader curia by making him President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

1970

Villot was named Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church on 16 October 1970, the first non-Italian to hold the office in half a millennium, a further testament of Pope Paul's insistence on expanding the role of non-Italians at the highest levels of the Vatican bureaucracy.

1971

On 15 July 1971, he was appointed President of the newly formed Pontifical Council Cor Unum, a position he resigned on 4 September 1978, during the brief pontificate of Pope John Paul I.

1974

Pope Paul elevated him to Cardinal Bishop of Frascati on 12 December 1974.

1978

Villot was present at the death of Paul VI in Castel Gandolfo on 6 August 1978.

Pope John Paul I retained Villot as Secretary of State.

When Pope John Paul II announced he would retain Villot as Secretary of State, he made clear the appointment was short-term but also confirmed Villot in his other positions.

He noted that Villot himself had suggested that the first non-Italian pope in centuries might want an Italian as his Secretary of State.

Villot participated as a cardinal elector in both the August and October conclaves of 1978, which elected John Paul I and John Paul II respectively, and presided at the conclaves because he was the senior cardinal bishop in attendance.

As Camerlengo he acted as the interim administrator of the Holy See in the interregnums of 1978.

1979

He remained in office until his death in March 1979.

Villot died at age 73 from bronchial pneumonia on 9 March 1979, in his Vatican City apartment, the day he returned from a four-day hospital stay.

John Paul II celebrated his funeral Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on 13 March, and his remains were buried in the crypt of Ss. Trinità al Monte Pincio.