Paul Poupard

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Paul Joseph Jean Cardinal Poupard (born August 30, 1930) is a French Roman Catholic cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for Culture at the Vatican.

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Paul Cardinal Poupard
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Paris (Emeritus)

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Poupard was born in Bouzillé, Pays de la Loire and was ordained a priest in 1954. In 1979, he was made an auxiliary bishop of Paris as well as titular bishop of Usula. A year and a half later, in 1980, he received a position in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's governing body, as Pro-President of Non-Believers. In 1985, Poupard was promoted to President of Nonbelievers and, at the same time, was proclaimed a Cardinal Deacon by Pope John Paul II. In addition to his other presidency, Poupard became the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture in 1988. The two positions were merged in 1993. He remained in this position until it expired with the Sede Vacante after Pope John Paul II's death in 2005; Benedict XVI immediately re-appointed him as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and then on March 11, 2006 also appointed him President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.


Cardinal Poupard is an accomplished scholar and author. Some of his writings have been translated into languages including Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. He holds doctorates in theology and history from the Sorbonne, as well as honorary doctorates from at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence, Fu Jen, Louvain, Kyoto, Santiago de Chile, Puebla de los Angeles and the Babes-Bolyai University/Cluj-Napoca. Poupard has been the Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Eugenio from 1985 to 1996 and Cardinal Priest of Santa Prassede since 1996 and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

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