Paul-Pierre Philippe

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Styles of Paul-Pierre Cardinal Philippe
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Erocleopoli Maggiore (titular see)

Paul-Pierre Cardinal Philippe (1905 - April 9, 1984) O.P. was a Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Roman Catholic Church.

He joined the Dominican order in Paris in 1926 and was ordained on July 6, 1932. He was a faculty member of the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum in Rome from 1935 until 1939. During the war he served as an officer in the French Army. After the war he returned to Rome to teach until 1950.

[edit] Archbishop and Cardinal

Pope John XXIII appointed him titular Archbishop of Erocleopoli Maggiore on August 28, 1962 and was consecrated on September 21 of that year at the hands of Pope John. He attended the Second Vatican Council. He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for he Doctrine of the Faith on 28 June 1967. He was created and proclaimed Cardinal Deacon of S. Pio V a Villa in 5 March 1973. Pope Paul VI appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches the next day. He opted for the order of cardinal priests and his deaconry was elevated pro hac vice to title on 2 February 1983 after being ten years as a cardinal deacon.