{{Short description|French Catholic cardinal (1931–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Bernard Panafieu | honorific-suffix = | title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille|Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille]] | image = Bernard Panafieu.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = Cardinal Panafieu at a press conference in 2009 | church = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille|Marseille]] | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | term_start = 22 April 1995 | term_end = 12 May 2006 | predecessor = [[Robert-Joseph Coffy|Cardinal Robert-Joseph Coffy]] | opposed = | successor = [[Georges Pontier]] | other_post = Cardinal Priest of [[San Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane]] <!---------- Orders The Orders section may be omitted in favour of Template:Ordination for those clergy claiming Apostolic succession, such as Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans. ----------> | ordination = 22 April 1956 | consecration = 9 June 1974 | cardinal = 21 October 2003 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | rank = Cardinal <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|01|26}} | birth_place = [[Châtellerault]], [[France]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|12|1931|01|26}} | death_place = [[Carpentras]], France | buried = | nationality = French | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = | alma_mater = | motto = ''Parare Viam Domini''<br>("Prepare the Way of the Lord") | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Bernard Panafieu.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Sainthood ----------> | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }} {{infobox cardinalstyles|image=Coat of arms of Bernard Panafieu.svg| image_size= 100px| cardinal name=Bernard Panafieu| dipstyle=His Eminence| offstyle=Your Eminence| See=Marseille|}} '''Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁnaʁ panafjø|lang|Fr-Bernard Panafieu.ogg}}; 26 January 1931 – 12 November 2017) was a French prelate of the [[Catholic Church]]. He was Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille|Marseille]] from 1995 until his retirement in 2006 in [[Venasque]]. He was made a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in 2003.
==Biography== Panafieu was born on 26 January 1931 in [[Châtellerault]] and ordained on 22 April 1956 for the archdiocese of [[Albi]],<ref name=vatican>{{cite web | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170904064218/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_panafieu_b.html | title= Panafieu Catd. Bernard | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_panafieu_b.html | accessdate = 13 November 2017 |url-status = live | website = Holy See Press Office | archive-date = 4 September 2017}}</ref> where he served as a vicar and chaplain of the lyceum La Pérouse. He was also the chaplain of the university parish, chaplain of students in Toulouse, 1967–1970 and secretary general of the [[presbyteral council]] from 1973 to 1974.
He was appointed [[titular bishop]] of [[Thibilis]] and [[auxiliary bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy|Annecy]] on 18 April 1974 and consecrated bishop on 9 June by [[Claude Dupuy (bishop)|Claude Dupuy]], Archbishop of Albi. He was named Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aix|Aix]] by [[Pope Paul VI]] on 30 November 1978. He was named coadjutor bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille|Marseille]] on 24 August 1994 and became archbishop there on 22 April 1995. He served as the first [[metropolitan archbishop]] when Marseille was elevated to that status on 16 December 2002.<ref name=radio/>
In the [[Episcopal Conference of France]] he served as President of the Episcopal Committee for Inter-religious Relations and New Religious Trends, President of the Secretariat for Religious Relations with Islam, and a member of the Episcopal Commission for the Universal Mission of the Church.<ref name=vatican/>
He was created Cardinal-Priest of [[St. Gregory Barbarigo at Tre Fontane|San Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane]] in the consistory of 2003 by [[Pope John Paul II]]. He was one of the [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 2005|cardinal electors]] who participated in the [[Papal conclave, 2005|2005 papal conclave]] that elected [[Pope Benedict XVI]].<ref name=bleu>{{cite news| url= https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/le-cardinal-bernard-panafieu-est-decede-1510571860 | first=Emilie | last= Briffod| title= Le cardinal Bernard Panafieu est décédé | date=13 November 2017 | accessdate= 13 November 2017 | work= France Bleu | language = fr}}</ref> Pope Benedict accepted his resignation on 12 May 2006 and Panafieu retired to [[Vaucluse]].<ref name=bleu/> He died after an illness of several years in a hospital in [[Carpentras]] on 12 November 2017, aged 86.<ref name=radio>{{cite news| url= http://fr.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/11/13/décès_du_cardinal_français_bernard_panafieu/1348593 | accessdate=13 November 2017 | date= 13 November 2017 | title= Décès du cardinal français Bernard Panafieu | work= Vatican Radio | language=fr}}</ref>
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