{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Jean-Pierre Kutwa | honorific-suffix = | title = [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]]<br>[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan|Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan]] | image = Jean Pierre Kutwa.jpg | alt = | caption = Cardinal Kutwa. | church = | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan|Abidjan]] | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = Abidjan | appointed = 2 May 2006 | enthroned = 18 June 2006 | term_end = 20 May 2024 | predecessor = [[Bernard Agré]] | opposed = | successor = [[Ignace Bessi Dogbo]] | other_post = [[Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza]] <!---------- 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 = 11 July 1971 | ordained_by = [[Bernard Yago]] | consecration = 16 September 2001 | consecrated_by = [[Bernard Agré]] | cardinal = 22 February 2014 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Francis]] | rank = Cardinal-Priest <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|12|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Blockhauss, [[Ivory Coast]] | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | buried = | nationality = Ivorian | religion = [[Roman Catholic]] | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gagnoa|Archbishop of Gagnoa]] (2001–2006) | alma_mater = | motto = {{lang|la|Sinite parvulos venire ad me}}<br/> (Let the little children come to me) | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Jean-Pierre Kutwa.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = | other = }} {{Ordination | ordained deacon by = | date of diaconal ordination = | place of diaconal ordination = | ordained priest by = | date of priestly ordination = 11 July 1971 | place of priestly ordination = | consecrated by = [[Bernard Agre]] | co-consecrators = [[Laurent Akran Mandjo]]<br />[[Barthelemy Djabla]] | date of consecration = 16 September 2001 | elevated by = [[Pope Francis]] | date of elevation = 22 February 2014 }} {{Short description|Ivorian Catholic prelate}} {{Infobox cardinal styles |name = Jean-Pierre Kutwa |image = Coat of arms of Jean-Pierre Kutwa.svg |image_size = 200px |dipstyle = [[His Eminence]] |offstyle = [[His Eminence|Your Eminence]] |relstyle = [[Cardinal (Catholic)|Cardinal]] |deathstyle = }} '''Jean-Pierre Kutwa'''<!-- as IPA --> (born 22 December 1945) is an [[Catholic Church in Ivory Coast|Ivorian Catholic]] prelate who served as [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan|Archbishop of Abidjan]] from 2006 to 2024. [[Pope Francis]] made him a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] in 2014.
==Biography== Kutwa was born on 22 December 1945 in Blockhauss (Abidjan). He had initial studies the school St Jean-Bosco, Treichville, in 1950; on 18 September 1955, he entered the "Petit-Clerc", Bingerville in class of CMI; in 1957, he entered the Minor Seminary in Bingerville, where he completed his secondary studies. Kutwa is also a composer.<ref name=bernardelli/>
===Education=== On 2 October 1964, he entered the Grand Seminary of Anyama, where he studied philosophy and theology; on 22 December 1967, he received the cassock and the ecclesiastical tonsure; he received the diaconate on 20 December 1970, from Archbishop [[Bernard Yago]] of Abidjan, in the church of Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Treichville; also, he studied at the Catholic Institute of Occidental Africa (I.C.A.O.), where he obtained a maîtrise in Biblical theology; and at the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]], Rome, where he earned a doctorate in Biblical theology.
==Priesthood and Episcopate== He was ordained a priest on 11 July 1971 by Cardinal [[Bernard Yago]]. [[Pope John-Paul II]] named him [[archbishop]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gagnoa|archdiocese of Gagnoa]] on 15 May 2001. He was consecrated bishop on 16 September by Cardinal [[Bernard Agré]], Archbishop of Abidjan.
He took part in the [[Synod of Bishops (Catholic)|Synod of Bishops]] that met at the Vatican in October 2005 as a delegate of the bishops of the Ivory Coast.<ref name=bernardelli>{{cite news|last=Bernardelli|first=Giorgio|title=Meet the Church's two new cardinals from West Africa|url=http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/africa-africa-africa-31229/|access-date=15 January 2014|newspaper=Vatican Insider|date=13 January 2014}}</ref>
In May 2006, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] transferred him to the metropolitan see of Abidjan to succeed the retiring Cardinal Agré.
Following the violence in the Ivory Coast that followed the November 2010 elections and ended in April 2011, he called for reconciliation: "Yes, the Ivory Coast must be a land of friendship and brotherhood, from the North or from the South, black or white, from here or elsewhere."<ref>{{cite news|title=L'archevêque d'Abidjan appelle les Ivoiriens à la Réconciliation |url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/DEPAFP20110424154338/violences-paix-reconciliation-refugiesl-archeveque-d-abidjan-appelle-les-ivoiriens-a-la-reconciliation.html|access-date=12 January 2014|newspaper=Jeune Afrique|date=24 April 2011}}</ref> In January 2012, speaking on behalf of the National Forum of Religious Groups, he called for [[Alassane Ouattara]], President of the Ivory Coast and a Muslim, to release political prisoners, supporters of his defeated rival for the presidency, in order to facilitate the process of national reconciliation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Processus de réconciliation nationale: Monseigneur Jean-Pierre Kutwa demande la libération des prisonniers politiques|url=http://news.abidjan.net/h/448197.html|access-date=12 January 2014|newspaper=Abidjan Net|date=7 January 2013}}</ref>
Kutwa is the president of the bishops commission for ecumenism as well as vice-president of the [[Regional Episcopal Conference of Francophone West Africa]].
==Cardinal== On 12 January 2014, Pope Francis announced that he would name Kutwa a cardinal at the papal consistory scheduled for 22 February 2014, along with 18 others.<ref>{{cite news|last=McElwee|first=Joshua L.|title=Pope chooses new cardinals from Africa, Asia, Latin America|url=http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/pope-chooses-new-cardinals-africa-asia-latin-america|access-date=12 January 2014|newspaper=National Catholic Reporter|date=12 January 2014}}</ref> He was created [[Cardinal-Priest]] of [[Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza]] in February 2014.
In September 2014, he was appointed a member of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]], the [[Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life]], the [[Pontifical Council for the Laity]], and the [[Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace]].
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop of Abidjan on 20 May 2024.<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 21 May 2024 | date = 20 May 2024 | publisher = Holy See Press Office |url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/05/20/240520f.html | title = Resignations and Appointments (continued), 20.05.2024}}</ref>
He participated as a [[Cardinal electors in the 2025 papal conclave|cardinal elector]] in the [[2025 papal conclave]] that elected [[Pope Leo XIV]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html| title=Cardinal Electors|date=6 May 2025|publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|language=en|access-date=6 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506193115/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html|archive-date=6 May 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Cardinals created by Francis]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{wikiquote}} {{commonscat}}
* {{cite web| access-date = 23 November 2017| title= Kutwa Card. Jean-Pierre |publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | url= https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_kutwa_jp.html | url-status=live | archive-date= 4 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170904062633/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_kutwa_jp.html }} * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkutwa.html Jean-Pierre Kutwa] * [http://www.dioceseabidjan.com/diocese/fr/ Diocese of Abidjan] * [https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean-Pierre+Kutwa&tbm=isch& Images]
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