31-579: Gantin is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Bernardin Gantin (1922–2008), Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church Camih Epiphanie Gantin , a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Togo 2012 See also [ edit ] Gand (disambiguation) Gant (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
62-487: A Roman missionary in my country." In retirement he spoke more freely than he had while under the obligations of office. In 2006 he criticized his contemporary bishops in Africa: "If I have to make a complaint it would be this: if at one time the bishops moved little, today they travel too much. Sitting down, listening, praying with their own believers is more that ever necessary and urgent for them. Always keeping in mind what
93-546: A chair named for him devoted to "Socializing Policy in Africa" at the Pontifical Lateran University . The Cadjehoun Airport , Benin's main international airport, was named in his honor. Eug%C3%A8ne Tisserant Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant ( pronounced [øʒɛn ɡabʁijɛl ʒɛʁvɛ loʁɑ̃ tisʁɑ̃] ; 24 March 1884 – 21 February 1972) was a French prelate and cardinal of
124-717: A member of the Académie Française . From 1962 to 1965, Tisserant attended the Second Vatican Council and sat on its Board of Presidency. As Dean of the College of Cardinals, he was the celebrant of the Mass coram Summo Pontifice at the opening ceremony of the council, before the Pope delivered the council's opening address and the other rites specific to the opening of a general council were performed. He
155-734: A member of the order of cardinal priests. For the next fourteen years he collaborated with Pope John Paul in shaping the hierarchy of the Church, both in making appointments and in managing the agendas for the periodic visits bishops make to consult with the pope and the Curia. On the pope's behalf he managed appointments of conservative prelates in dioceses that did not welcome them in the Netherlands and Switzerland, removed an outspoken liberal French bishop, contended with Latin American advocates for
186-557: A see and a place in the College of Cardinals, offering Milan as an example. On 29 November 2002, with the permission of Pope John Paul, he retired as Dean of the College of Cardinals and cardinal bishop of Ostia, which required he reside in Rome. Now eighty years old, he retired to Cotonou, which he had visited regularly throughout his years in Rome. He remained cardinal bishop of Palestrina. Two years into his retirement he described his situation: "I left Rome in body but not in spirit. I am
217-843: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bernardin Gantin Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese prelate of the Catholic Church who held senior positions in the Roman Curia for twenty years and the highest position in the College of Cardinals for nine years. His prominence in the hierarchy of the Church was unprecedented for an African and has been equaled by few non-Italians. He began his career in his native country first as an auxiliary bishop and then as archbishop of Cotonou . In 1971 he began his thirty-year career in
248-591: Is said to have participated in negotiating a secret 1960s agreement between Soviet and Vatican officials that authorised Eastern Orthodox participation in the Second Vatican Council in exchange for a noncondemnation of atheistic communism during the conciliar assemblies. As Dean of the Sacred College, he was the first person after Pope Paul VI to sign each of the acts of the Second Vatican Council. In 1962, Tisserant became Grand Master of
279-720: Is set down in canon 395 of the Code of Canon Law on the obligation of residence in their diocese, they can also be an example to their own priests." He warned against allowing African priests to relocate permanently in Europe, to "roam the dioceses of the Western world more in search of their own material comfort than out of genuine pastoral zeal". And he warned European religious orders against such personnel transfers: "The European religious congregations on their last legs or threatened with extinction should not go seeking cheap reinvigoration among
310-713: The papabili , those cardinals who are thought to have a chance of being elected pope. In 1982, he accompanied Pope John Paul on his visit to Benin. On 8 April 1984, Pope John Paul II appointed him prefect of the Congregation for Bishops , which supervises episcopal appointments in the non-missionary Latin Rite dioceses throughout the world. He was also made president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America . On 25 June 1984, Gantin opted to become
341-679: The Catholic Church . Elevated to the cardinalate in 1936, Tisserant was a prominent and long-time member of the Roman Curia . Tisserant was born in Nancy to Hippolyte and Octavée (née Connard) Tisserant. From 1900 to 1904, he studied theology , Sacred Scripture , Hebrew , Syriac , Old Testament , and Oriental Patrology at the seminary in Nancy. He then studied in Jerusalem under Marie-Joseph Lagrange , O.P. , but returned to France in 1905 for military service . On 4 August 1907, Tisserant
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#1732771948938372-703: The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in 1971 and secretary of that Congregation in 1973. On 19 December 1975 he was named Vice President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and on 5 January 1976 Gantin received the additional responsibilities of the Vice President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum , as Pope Paul was combining those two departments. In 1976, Pope Paul appointed him head of
403-624: The Order of the Holy Sepulchre , a position that he held until his death. In 1969, he demanded a retraction from Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens , Archbishop of Brussels-Mechelen , for the "defamatory and slanderous" statements that he allegedly made against the bureaucracy of the Roman Curia. In 1970, when Paul VI's new retirement rules restricted the right to vote in papal conclaves to cardinals under age 80, Tisserant, then 86, objected on
434-409: The surname Gantin . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gantin&oldid=1000960954 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
465-533: The College of Cardinals . On 5 January 1960, Pope John XXIII appointed him Archbishop of Cotonou . As archbishop, he attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), where he first became friends with the future Pope John Paul II. He was chairman of the West African Episcopal Conference. Pope Paul VI appointed him to the Roman Curia and gave him a series of assignments, starring as adjunct secretary of
496-582: The Curia. After he had spent several years in the role of senior assistant, he held a series of senior positions as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace , president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum , and prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops Pope Paul VI made him a cardinal in 1977, Pope John Paul II promoted him to the rank of cardinal bishop in 1986, and his peers elected him dean,
527-471: The Funeral Masses of Popes Pius XII and John XXIII and presided over the conclaves to elect their successors in 1958 and 1963 . During the 1958 conclave, he was seen as papabile by most Vatican-watchers , and it is generally believed that he received at least five votes in the early balloting. In 1956, Tisserant received an honorary doctorate from Coimbra University, and in 1961, he was elected
558-487: The Holy Roman Church. Under Pius XII, Tisserant also headed a commission to investigate alleged abuses of appointments in the Order of Malta , which concluded that there was no wrongdoing. In 1939, Tisserant urged Pius XII to promulgate an encyclical "on the duty of Catholics to resist the unjust orders of an authoritarian state." After the outbreak of World War II , Pius XII refused to release Tisserant as
589-421: The Pontifical Council Cor Unum by Pope John Paul I , the only administrative appointment of his month-long papacy. Gantin met with John Paul I the day before he died. He participated in the 1978 conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II . At the first of them he was reportedly one of three cardinals who counted the votes. During the second of these conclaves, Gantin was thought to be one of
620-550: The President of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, making him the first African to head a curial department. This commission was headed by a cardinal, so Gantin held the title Pro-President until Pope Paul made him a cardinal on 27 June 1977. He was made a member of the order of cardinal deacons and assigned the deaconry of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re . On 4 September 1978, he was named President of
651-563: The Vatican Library in 1919 and Monsignor in 1921, Tisserant became Pro-Prefect of the Vatican Library on 15 November 1930 and was named a protonotary apostolic on 13 January 1936. In the consistory of 15 June 1936, Tisserant was created Cardinal Deacon by Pope Pius XI , assigned as his titular church the Basilica of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia . He was raised to the rank of Cardinal Priest soon afterwards, retaining
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#1732771948938682-422: The dean and sub dean of the college who manage the conclave that elects the pope. The six Latin-church cardinal bishops elect the dean and subdean, who takes his position when the pope consents to the election. On 5 June 1993, Gantin was elected and confirmed Dean of the College of Cardinals , which gave him the additional title cardinal bishop of Ostia. He was the first non-European to hold this office and remains
713-418: The head of the Vatican Library, preventing him from returning to France to serve in the army. In 1946, Tisserant was elevated to the rank of Cardinal Bishop by Pope Pius, taking the title of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1946. After serving as vice-dean of the College of Cardinals from 1947 to 1951, he became dean and Cardinal Bishop of Ostia on 13 January 1951. As dean of the Sacred College, he presided at
744-675: The highest office in the College of Cardinals , in 1993. He retired to Benin when he turned 80. Bernadin Gantin was born in Toffo , French Dahomey (now Benin ), on 8 May 1922. His name means "tree of iron" ( gan , iron and tin , tree ). His father was a railway worker. He entered the minor seminary in Ouidah at age fourteen and was ordained to the priesthood on 14 January 1951 in Lomé , Togo , by Archbishop Louis Parisot of Cotonou. He then fulfilled pastoral assignments while also teaching languages at
775-586: The new pontiff's permission, he switched from his titular church to that of Santa Maria sopra Minerva . Tisserant held a number of offices in the Roman Curia. He served as secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (1936–1959), as president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (1938–1946) and as Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies (1951–1967). From 1957 to 1971, he served as Librarian and Archivist of
806-756: The only one. He ended his service as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 25 June 1998. Less than a year later, in April 1999, he endorsed a views of Cardinal Vincenzo Fagiolo that bishops need to consider themselves married to their sees and expect their relationship to be lifelong. He said he had been shocked by overt expressions of "careerism" and "social climbing". He suggested that bishops should be transferred "to less developed, more difficult sees rather than to more comfortable and prestigious ones". He also said that there should be no connection between
837-445: The rights of indigenous peoples, and the excommunication of Marcel Lefebvre , with whom he had worked in Africa in the 1960s. Years later, John Paul referred to their years of "regular contact and an almost unique familiarity". On 29 September 1986, Pope John Paul appointed Gantin cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina , one of six Latin-church members of the highest rank of cardinals, responsible for electing
868-558: The same title. On 25 June 1937, Tisserant was appointed the Titular Archbishop of Iconium by Pope Pius XI . he received his consecration on the following 25 July from Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII ), with Archbishop Giuseppe Migone and Bishop Charles-Joseph-Eugène Ruch serving as co-consecrators , in St. Peter's Basilica . He participated in the conclave of 1939 , which elected Pacelli as Pope Pius XII . With
899-502: The seminary. In 1953 he was sent to Rome where he studied at the Pontifical Urban University and then at the Pontifical Lateran University , where he earned his licentiate in theology and canon law. On 11 December 1956, Pope Pius XII appointed him titular bishop of Tipasa and auxiliary bishop of Cotonou . He received his episcopal consecration on 3 February 1957 from Cardinal Eugène Tisserant , Dean of
930-680: The young Churches in Asia or Africa." Gantin died at Pompidou Hospital in Paris after a long illness on 13 May 2008, less than a week after being transferred there from Benin and five days after his 86th birthday. The Beninese government declared three days of mourning for him, beginning on 14 May. Pope Benedict XVI visited his tomb in the chapel of the Seminary of Saint Gall in Ouidah on 19 November 2011. In May 2013, Vatican officials inaugurated
961-747: Was ordained a priest by Charles-François Turinaz , Bishop of Nancy. Tisserant served as a professor at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare and curator at the Vatican Library from 1908 to 1914, at which time he became an intelligence officer in the French Army during World War I . He was reportedly fluent in thirteen languages: Amharic , Arabic , Akkadian , English , French (native language), German , Greek , Hebrew , Italian , Latin , Persian , Russian and Syriac . Named assistant librarian of