53 Notable alumni of
Catholic University of Paris
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The Catholic University of Paris is 873rd in the world, 307th in Europe, and 30th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from the Catholic University of Paris sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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- women letter writerdiaristliterary criticessayistphilosopher
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
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Audrey Tautou
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- actortelevision actormodelfilm actorphotographer
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Audrey Justine Tautou is a French actress. She made her acting debut at age 18 on television, and her feature film debut in Venus Beauty Institute (1999), for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress.
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Hans Küng
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- In 1956 graduated with doctorate in France in theology
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterphilosopher
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Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos).
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Christoph Schönborn
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterLatin Catholic bishop
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Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Schönborn, OP is a Bohemian-born Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1995 until 2025. He was chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998 to 2020 and was made a cardinal in 1998. He is a member of the Dominican Order.
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Enrique Dussel
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- Graduated with licentiate in religious studies
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherchurch historianhistorianphilosopher
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Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to 2014.
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Robert Barron
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- In 1992 graduated with Doctor of Sacred Theology
- Occupations
- evangelistCatholic bishopwriterCatholic priestuniversity teacher
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Robert Emmet Patrick Barron is an American theologian who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022. He has published on theology and spirituality, and is the founder of Word on Fire.
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Jean Vanier
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- In 1962 graduated with doctorate in France
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- philosopherCatholic theologianwriter
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Jean Vanier CC GOQ was a Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian. In 1964, he founded L'Arche, an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries for people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them. In 1971, he co-founded Faith and Light with Marie-Hélène Mathieu, which also works for people with developmental disabilities, their families, and friends in over 80 countries. He continued to live as a member of the original L'Arche community in Trosly-Breuil, France, until his death.
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Jean-Marie Lustiger
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priesttheologianwriterCatholic bishop
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Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His life is depicted in the 2013 film Le métis de Dieu (The Jewish Cardinal).
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Gustavo Gutiérrez
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianphilosopherCatholic theologian
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Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz OP was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology at large. He held the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe.
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Sławoj Leszek Głódź
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- archbishopCatholic bishopCatholic priestmilitary chaplainbishop
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Sławoj Leszek Głódź is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Gdańsk from 2008 to 2020. He has been a bishop since 1991 and before that spent a decade working in the Roman Curia.
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André Vingt-Trois
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoptransitional deaconwriter
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André Armand Vingt-Trois was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 2005 to 2017, having previously served as Archbishop of Tours from 1999 to 2005. He was made a cardinal in 2007.
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Jean-Marc Aveline
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priestwriterpriestCatholic bishop
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Jean-Marc Noël Aveline is a French Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Marseille since 2019. He was previously an auxiliary bishop there from 2013 to 2019. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2022.
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Pierre Pflimlin
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- politician
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Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
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George Alencherry
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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George Alencherry is the Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church after serving in the position from 2011 to 2023. He is also a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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Pedro Opeka
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- Catholic priestreligiousChristian missionarywriter
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Pedro Pablo Opeka, known also as Father Opeka, is a Catholic Argentinian-Slovenian priest, working as a missionary in Madagascar. For his service to the poor, he was awarded with the Legion of Honor by the former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and French President Emanuel Macron.
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Christophe Pierre
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre is a French Catholic prelate and diplomat who has served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States since 2016. He previously served as apostolic nuncio to Mexico, Uganda, and Haiti. He was made a cardinal in 2023.
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Jean-Pierre Ricard
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Jean-Pierre Ricard is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Bordeaux from 2001 to 2019. He has been a cardinal since 2006. He was previously Bishop of Montpellier for five years and before that an auxiliary bishop in Grenoble. From 2001 to 2007 he was president of the French Episcopal Conference.
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Alfred Loisy
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- Graduated with doctorate
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- Catholic priestexegeteuniversity teacherorientalistpresbyter
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Alfred Firmin Loisy was a French Catholic priest, theologian, and academic, generally regarded as one of the leading figures of the modernist movement within the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views on the interpretation of the Bible, and argued that the methods of modern biblical criticism could aid theology. He famously wrote that "Jesus announced the kingdom, and it is the Church that came".
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Franz Stock
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- Catholic priestpeace activistmilitary chaplaintheologian
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Franz Stock was a German Roman Catholic priest. He is known for ministering to prisoners in France during World War II, and to German prisoners of war in the years following. The cause for his beatification has been accepted by the Holy See.
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Dominique Rey
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoptheologianCatholic deacon
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Dominique Marie Jean Rey is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon from 2000 to 2025. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community, and he is considered one of the more conservative French bishops. He also frequently celebrates Tridentine Mass. He has been criticized for ordaining priests who have failed to qualify for the priesthood in their home countries, failing to supervise religious communities he has established, and for inadequate action against sex abusers in his diocese.
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Joseph Vu Van Thien
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Joseph Vũ Văn Thiên is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. A bishop since 2002, he was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Hanoi on 17 November 2018.
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Franc Rode
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic theologianCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Franc Rode CM is a Slovenian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from 2004 to 2011. He is a member of the Congregation of the Mission and was made a cardinal in 2006.
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Martial Bild
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- journalistpolitician
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Martial Bild is a French journalist and politician. A leading member of the National Front until 2008, he co-founded the Party of France in 2009, and the web television TV Libertés in 2014.
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René Laurentin
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- Catholic priestuniversity teachercolumnistjournalistCatholic theologian
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Father René Laurentin was a French theologian. He is widely recognized as "one of the world’s foremost students" of Mariology and is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on topics including Marian apparitions such as Lourdes and Medjugorje; visionaries and mystics including Bernadette Soubirous, Thérèse de Lisieux, Catherine Labouré, and Yvonne Aimée de Malestroit; as well as biblical exegesis, theology, and Vatican II.
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Louis Duchesne
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- Catholic priestchurch historianprofessorlinguist
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Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions.
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Achille Liénart
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoptheologianCatholic deacon
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Achille Liénart was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930.
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Dominique Lebrun
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- association football refereeCatholic bishoplawyerCatholic priesttheologian
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Dominique Lebrun is a French Roman Catholic prelate. Bishop of Saint-Étienne from 2006 to 2015, he was appointed Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy in July 2015.
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar CMF was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal in a consistory on February 22, 2014.
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Emmanuel Adamakis
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- Eastern Orthodox priesttheologian
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Metropolitan Emmanuel, (b. December 19, 1958, Agios Nikolaos, Crete) is an Orthodox bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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José Manuel Estepa Llaurens
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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José Manuel Estepa Llaurens was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who was Military Archbishop of Spain from 1983 to 2003. He was made a cardinal in 2010.
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Marian Gołębiewski
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- Studied in 1992-1993
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- lecturerCatholic bishopCatholic priestuniversity teachertheologian
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Marian Gołębiewski was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an archbishop of Wrocław from 2004 to 2013. From 1996 to 2004, he was Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg.
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Mathilde Paris
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- commerçants et assimiléscadrepolitician
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Mathilde Paris is a French politician who represented the 3rd constituency of the Loiret department in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024. A member of the National Rally (RN), she has also held a seat in the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire since 2016, following her election in 2015.
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Léon Bérard
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- writerlawyerdiplomatpolitician
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Léon Bérard was a French politician and lawyer.
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Alfred Baudrillart
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- Catholic priesttheologianhistorianuniversity teacherCatholic deacon
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Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a cardinal in 1935. A historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until his death. He campaigned to rouse international support for France during the First World War, while in the Second World War he supported the Vichy regime and backed the Germans for leading the international struggle against Bolshevism.
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Hervé Giraud
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Hervé Jean Robert Giraud is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been named Bishop of Viviers with the personal title of archbishop. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon from 2003 to 2007, then as Bishop of Soissons from 2008 to 2015, following three months as coadjutor. He was Archbishop of Sens from 2015 to 2024.
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Joseph Moingt
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- theologianpriestacademic
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Joseph Moingt was a French Jesuit priest. He was born in Salbris, France. He was known for working at the Institut Catholique de Paris. From 1970 to 1997, he was director of the Recherches de science religieuse. In 2015, he turned 100. He was the author of multiple religious books, including L'Esprit du Christianisme in 2018, with the subject matter focusing on promoting faith and "evangelical humanism".
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Anton Stres
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopphilosophertheologian
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Anton Stres, C.M., was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana and the metropolitan bishop of Ljubljana as well as the president of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference from January 2010 until July 2013. As Archbishop of Ljubljana he was also the grand chancellor of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana.
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Basilio do Nascimento
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Basílio do Nascimento Martins was the East Timorese Roman Catholic Bishop of Baucau.
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Jean-Pierre Mahé
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- Studied in 1975
- Occupations
- historianorientalistphilologisttranslator
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Jean-Pierre Mahé is a French orientalist, philologist and historian of Caucasus, and a specialist of Armenian studies.
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Georges Gilson
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoparchbishopCatholic deacon
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Georges Robert Edmond Gilson was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
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Gérard Defois
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Gérard Denis Auguste Defois is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was the ordinary of a series of French dioceses from 1990 until his retirement in 2008. He was Archbishop of Sens-Auxerre from 1990 to 1995, Archbishop of Reims from 1995 to 1998, and finally of Bishop of Lille with the personal title of archbishop from 1998 to 2008. Before becoming a bishop he worked for the French Bishops Conference and held academic positions. He has published extensively.
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Youakim Moubarac
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- historianwriterCatholic priest
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Youakim Moubarac was a Lebanese French scholar. He was an Islamologist, an Arabist and a disciple of the Orientalist Louis Massignon and of philosopher Louis Gardet. A Maronite priest, Moubarac dedicated his life and major works to interfaith dialogue between Christianity and Islam, to Arab and Lebanese causes, to the unity of the Church, and to the Maronite Church Antiochian heritage.
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Guy Thomazeau
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoptheologianCatholic deacon
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Guy Marie Alexandre Thomazeau was the Archbishop of Montpellier from 2002 to 2011. He was earlier Bishop of Beauvais, Bishop of Noyon, Bishop of Senlis, and auxiliary bishop of Meaux. Coming from a prominent business family, he served as 'vicaire' at Notre-Dame de Passy and subsequently as 'curé' of St. Pierre de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. He resigned his post of archbishop on 3 June 2011.
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Pierre Henri Battifol
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- Catholic priestchurch historian
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Pierre Batiffol – was a French Catholic priest and prominent theologian, specialising in Church history. He had also a particular interest in the history of dogma.
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Teodósio de Gouveia
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Theodósio Clemente de Gouveia GCC GCIH was a Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
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Gregorio Martínez Sacristán
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Gregorio Martínez Sacristán' was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop.
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Louis Salleron
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- university teachertheologianwriterjournalisteconomist
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Louis Salleron was a French author, journalist and Catholic theoretician. He was right-wing, with monarchist sympathies, and an advocate of agricultural corporatism. During the early years of the Vichy Regime in World War II (1939–45) he played a leading role in establishing the Peasant Corporation. He continued to publish books and articles after the war, and was an outspoken opponent of the Vatican II reforms to the Catholic church.
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Albert Tessier
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- university teacherfilm directorhistorianpriestphotographer
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Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.
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Giacomo Bini
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- missionaryregular priest
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Giacomo Bini was a Franciscan priest. Ordained in 1964, he worked as a missionary in Africa, and was appointed Minister General of the Order of the Friars Minor (OFM) for the period 1997–2003. He was fluent in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and Kiswahili.
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Peter Serracino Inglott
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Paris
- 1958-1960 graduated with Bachelor of Divinity
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- Catholic priestphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
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Peter Serracino Inglott was a priest, philosopher, scholar and rector of the University of Malta from 1987 to 1988, then consecutively from 1991 to 1996. He was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of Malta. He was a key figure at reconstructing the Maltese education system and held academia to his personal life prominently. He was also politically affiliated with the country's Nationalist Party, serving as advisor to former Prime Minister of Malta, Eddie Fenech Adami.
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Pierre Lenhardt
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- Catholic priesttheologian
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Pierre Lenhardt was a French Catholic religious theologian in the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion.
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Patricia Zoundi Yao
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- social entrepreneur
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Patricia Zoundi Yao is a well-known social entrepreneur in Côte d'Ivoire. She is the founder of several companies, including Quickcash (fintech) and Canaan Land (agribusiness). Her determination and leadership was recognized by UNCTAD in September 2019 when she was one of seven "eTrade for Women Advocates".
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Antonysamy Savarimuthu
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Mons. Antonysamy Savarimuthu is a Metropolitan Archbishop of The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madurai since July 2025 and previously Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India from 2019 to 2025. He was born on 8 December 1960 in Vadaku Vandalam of the Diocese of Palayamkottai.
