{{Short description|French Catholic cardinal (1883{{endash}}1975)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |name = Maurice Feltin |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |image = Cardinal Feltin.jpg |caption = Portrait |title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]],<br>[[Archbishop of Paris|Archbishop Emeritus of Paris]] |church = [[Catholic Church]] |archdiocese = Paris |see = Paris |appointed = 15 August 1949 |enthroned = |term_end = 1 December 1966 |predecessor = [[Emmanuel Célestin Suhard|Emmanuel Suhard]] |successor = [[Pierre Veuillot]] |other_post = [[Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace]] (1953–75) |ordination = 3 July 1909 |ordained_by = [[Léon-Adolphe Amette]] |consecration = 11 March 1928 |consecrated_by = [[Charles Binet|Charles-Henri-Joseph Binet]] |cardinal = 12 January 1953 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius XII]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] |birth_name = Maurice Feltin |birth_date = 15 May 1883 |birth_place = [[Delle]], [[Territoire de Belfort]], [[French Third Republic|France]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|09|27|1883|05|15|df=yes}} |death_place = [[Thiais]], [[Val-de-Marne]], [[French Fifth Republic|France]] |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Bishop of Troyes]] (1927–32)|[[Archbishop of Sens]] (1932–35)|[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux|Archbishop of Bordeaux]] (1935–49)|[[Military Ordinariate of France|Military Vicar of France]] (1949–66)|[[Pax Christi|President of Pax Christi International]] (1950–65)|[[Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France|Ordinary of France of the Eastern Rite]] (1954–66)|[[French Bishops' Conference|President of the French Bishops' Conference]] (1966–69)}} |motto = ''Animam pro ovibus'' |signature = Signature de Maurice Feltin, archevêque de Paris-02.jpg |coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Maurice Feltin.svg }} {{infobox cardinal styles |image = Coat of arms of Maurice Feltin.svg |image_size = 100px |cardinal name=Maurice Feltin |dipstyle=[[His Eminence]] |offstyle=Your Eminence |relstyle=[[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]] |deathstyle=not applicable |See=[[Archbishop of Paris|Paris]] ([[Emeritus]]) }} '''Maurice Feltin''' ({{IPA|fr|mɔʁis fɛltɛ̃, moʁ-}}; 15 May 1883 – 27 September 1975) was a French [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He served as [[Archbishop of Paris]] from 1949 to 1966, and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinalate]] in 1953 by [[Pope Pius XII]].
==Biography== Born in [[Delle]], [[Territoire-de-Belfort]], Feltin studied at the [[Seminary]] [[Sulpitius the Pious|of Saint-Sulpice]] in [[Paris]] before being [[Holy orders|ordained]] a [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priest]] on 3 July 1909. He then did [[Parish (Catholic Church)|pastoral]] work in [[Besançon]] until 1914, at which time he was made an officer in the [[French Army]] during [[World War I]]. For his service as a [[stretcher bearer]] with the rank of sergeant, he was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]], the [[Médaille militaire]], and the [[Legion of Honour|Légion d'honneur]].
On 19 December 1927, Feltin was appointed [[Bishopric of Troyes|Bishop of Troyes]] by [[Pope Pius XI]]. He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on 11 March 1928 from Cardinal [[Charles-Henri-Joseph Binet]], with Bishops Paul-Jules-Narcisse Rémond and Jean-Marcel Rodié serving as [[Consecrator|co-consecrators]]. Feltin was promoted to [[Archbishop of Sens]] on 16 August 1932, and was later named [[Archbishopric of Bordeaux|Archbishop of Bordeaux]] on 16 December 1935. After the [[Battle of France|defeat]] of France in the summer of 1940 Feltin supported the [[Vichy France|Vichy]] regime of Marshal [[Philippe Pétain|Pétain]]. However, he also sheltered Jews fleeing [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German-occupied France]] and helped the Grand Rabbi of France escape the [[Gestapo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cardinal Feltin of France Dead; Archbishop Led Worker‐Priests|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/28/archives/cardinal-feltin-of-france-dead-archbishop-led-workerpriests.html}}</ref> On 15 August 1949, he became the twenty-third [[Archbishop of Paris]].
He was created [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal-Priest]] of [[Santa Maria della Pace]] by [[Pope Pius XII]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 12 January 1953. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the [[1958 papal conclave]] and the [[1963 papal conclave]].
During the [[Algerian War]] Feltin strongly supported the French Army and dismissed allegations of widespread torture as "exaggerations". He accused people who spread such information with undermining national unity and insulting the honor of the army. In the fall of 1959, he met with General [[Jacques Massu]], a leading advocate for the use of torture, reassuring him that the Church supported the army. Feltin denounced the use of torture in 1960 but continued his opposition to the legalization of [[conscientious objection]] in France, rejecting objections to the war by certain French Catholics. In anti-war Catholic circles, Feltin's actions were met with displeasure.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Johnston-White |first=Rachel|date=2019|title=A New Primacy of Conscience? Conscientious Objection, French Catholicism and the State during the Algerian War |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022009417714315#body-ref-fn11-0022009417714315 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |volume=54 |issue=1|pages=112-138}}</ref>
He attended the [[Second Vatican Council]] from 1962 to 1965. He resigned as Paris's archbishop on 21 December 1966. After the first meeting between Church and Freemasonry which had been held on 11 April 1969 at the convent of the Divine Master in [[Ariccia]], he was the protagonist of a series of public handshakes between high prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and the heads of [[Freemasonry]].<ref name="Magister, 1999">{{cite web|author=[[Sandro Magister]]|url=https://chiesa-espresso-repubblica-it.translate.goog/articolo/7167.html?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=wapp|language=it|title=Tra il papa e il massone non c'è comunione|trans-title=There is no communion between the pope and the Mason|date=19 August 1999|publisher=[[L'Espresso]]}}</ref>
He died in [[Thiais]], outside Paris, at age 92, and was buried in [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame Cathedral]].
==Trivia== *Feltin condemned the legend of [[Santa Claus]], claiming that it debased the "[[Christianity|Christian]] significance of [[Christmas]]".<ref>Time Magazine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125213554/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815802,00.html Death to Santa Claus] 7 January 1952</ref> *In 1959, Feltin requested of the [[Holy Office]] that the [[Worker-Priest|Worker-Priest movement]] be revived, albeit under strict controls; his request, however, was denied.<ref>Time Magazine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100214173641/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811293,00.html End of the Worker-Priests] 28 September 1959</ref> *In 1963, Feltin denied [[Édith Piaf]] a religious funeral due to her controversial life.<ref name="guardian03">{{cite news | first=Stuart | last=Jeffries | title= The love of a poet | date=8 November 2003 | url =https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/08/popandrock.art | work = The Guardian| access-date = 2007-07-19 }}</ref> However, on 10 October 2013, fifty years after her death, the Roman Catholic Church gave Piaf a memorial Mass in the St. Jean-Baptiste Church in Belleville, Paris, the parish into which she was born.
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfeltin.html Catholic-Hierarchy] *[https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1953.htm#Feltin Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church] * {{PM20|FID=pe/005082}}
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