{{Short description|French Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1950)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Philippe Barbarin | honorific-suffix = | title = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon|Archbishop Emeritus of Lyon]] <br> [[Trinità dei Monti|Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio]] | image = Philippe Barbarin (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Barbarin in 2008 | church = [[Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon|Lyon]] | elected = | appointed = 16 July 2002 | term = | term_start = | enthroned = 14 September 2002 | quashed = | term_end = 6 March 2020 | predecessor = [[Louis-Marie Billé]] | opposed = | successor = [[Olivier de Germay]] | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 17 December 1977 | ordained_by = Robert Marie-Joseph François de Provenchères | consecration = 22 November 1998 | consecrated_by = [[Philibert Randriambololona]] | cardinal = 21 October 2003 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | rank = Cardinal-Priest <!---------- Personal details ---------->| birth_name = Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|10|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Rabat]], [[French Morocco]] | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality = French | religion = Roman Catholic | residence = | parents = | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins|Bishop of Moulins]] (1998–2002)}} | alma_mater = | motto = Qu'ils soient un | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Philippe Barbarin.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 cardinal styles | cardinal name = Philippe Barbarin | dipstyle = His Eminence | offstyle = Your Eminence | image = Coat of arms of Philippe Barbarin.svg | image_size = 200px | see = Lyon }}
'''Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Barbarin''' (born 17 October 1950) is a [[Catholic Church in France|French Catholic]] prelate who served as [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon|Archbishop of Lyon]] from 2002 to 2020. He was made a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] in 2003. He was convicted in 2019 of [[#Handling sexual abuse|failing to report alleged sex abuse]] by a priest and was given a suspended six-month prison sentence.<ref name=sentence /> The same year, Barbarin turned the archdiocese over to an administrator while he appealed his case.<ref name=sedeplena /> His conviction was overturned in 2020 but [[Pope Francis]] accepted his resignation just over a month later.<ref name="sentence">{{cite news|url=https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/03/pope-lets-french-cardinal-embroiled-in-abuse-cover-up-resign/|title=Pope lets French cardinal embroiled in abuse cover-up resign|first=Nicole|last=Winfield|publisher=[[Crux (online newspaper)|Crux]]|date=6 March 2020|access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=overturn>{{cite news | url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-church-abuse-france/french-court-overturns-earlier-guilty-verdict-on-cardinal-barbarin-idUSKBN1ZT1M1 | date= 30 January 2020 | access-date = 30 January 2020 | publisher = Reuters | title = French court overturns earlier guilty verdict on cardinal Barbarin}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life and career=== Philippe Barbarin was born in 1950 in [[Rabat]], [[French Morocco]], then a French protectorate, into a large family with six sisters, two of whom are nuns, and four brothers.<ref>{{cite interview | url = http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_20534_l3.htm |first=Philippe | last= Barbarin|title= The lights of Lyon |work= 30Days |issue= January – February 2009}}</ref> Barbarin studied at the public Lycée Marcellin Berthelot in [[Saint-Maur-des-Fossés|Saint-Maur]] and then in Paris at the Catholic Collège des Francs-Bourgeois, where he completed his baccalaureate. He studied philosophy at the Major Seminary of Paris, the Institute for Comparative Philosophy, and the Sorbonne, interrupted for a time by military service. In 1973 he entered the Institut Catholique de Paris, where he earned a theology bachelor. He was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] on 17 December 1977 by Bishop Robert de Provenchères of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Créteil|Créteil]].<ref name=pr20020716/>
Barbarin held a variety of pastoral assignments in France until 1994, when he taught [[theology]] in the [[Archdiocese of Fianarantsoa]], Madagascar.<ref name=pr20020716/>
===Episcopal career=== On 1 October 1998, he was appointed [[Bishop of Moulins]].<ref name=pr20020716/> He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on the following 22 November from the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] Archbishop [[Philibert Randriambololona]] of Fianarantsoa, with Bishops André Quélen and Daniel Labille serving as co-consecrators.
Barbarin was named [[Archdiocese of Lyon|Archbishop of Lyon]] on 16 July 2002.<ref name=pr20020716>{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office |access-date =7 March 2019 |url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2002/07/16/0371/01170.html | language = it | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 16.07.2002 | date= 16 July 2002}}</ref>
In 2010, Barbarin created a programme at the diocesan seminary to prepare for the priesthood any Francophone candidate who wished, in accordance with the tradition in which he was raised, to celebrate Mass according to the [[1962 Roman Missal]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=31 October 2015| date=18 March 2011| url=http://lyon.catholique.fr/?La-Maison-Sainte-Blandine-un-an |title=La Maison Sainte-Blandine, un an après | publisher= Archdiocese of Lyon |language=fr }}</ref>
In November 2012, as France prepared to legalize same-sex marriage, he told ''Osservatore Romano'': "Everyone knows marriage is the union between a man and a woman. The parliaments of the 21st century cannot change that.... I and many other priests are engaged in dialogue with a number of homosexual people. They know they are loved and that they will always be welcome. I would remind them however that God watches over and says to everyone: 'You are precious in my eyes.' I hope that everyone listens to Christ's call and are helped to reciprocate."<ref>{{cite news | access-date= 31 October 2015 | date= 29 November 2012 | url= http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/documents/detail/articolo/francia-france-francia-20173/ | title= Card. Barbarin: 'Parliaments cannot change the essence of marriage' | publisher= La Stampa | work= Vatican Insider | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130401144541/http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/documents/detail/articolo/francia-france-francia-20173/ | archive-date= 1 April 2013 | df= dmy-all }}</ref>
In July 2015, he led the bishops of the [[Rhône-Alpes]] region in calling for a Reims hospital to maintain the life support systems of Vincent Lambert, a man who had been in a coma for seven years.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=31 October 2015|date=21 July 2015| url= http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/eutanasia-euthanasia-eutanasia-42475/ | title= Bishops of Rhône-Alpes call for tetraplegic man not to be taken off life support| publisher= La Stampa | work = Vatican Insider |first=Geiorgio | last=Bernadelli}}</ref>
He has been "at the forefront of Islamic-Christian dialogue". In 2013, accompanied by the Imam of Lyon, he visited the village of Tibhirine, Algeria, where some Trappist [[Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine|monks were assassinated]] in 1996. In July 2014, he visited Mosul and Erbil and other villages in Iraq as well as refugee camps for displaced Christians.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=31 October 2015|date=31 July 2014| url= http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/barbarin-mosul-35525/| title= Iraq: Cardinal Barbarin stands by Mosul's refugees | publisher= La Stampa | work = Vatican Insider| first=Giorgio| last=Bernadelli}}</ref>
In addition to his native French, Barbarin speaks Italian, English, Spanish, German, and [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]].
===Cardinal=== [[Pope John Paul II]] made him [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal-priest]] of [[SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 21 October 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2003/documents/ns_lit_doc_20031021_titoli-diaconie-cardinali_en.html |title=Assignment of the Titles or the Deaconries to the new Cardinals |date=21 October 2003 |website=[[Holy See|The Holy See]] |publisher=[[Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff|Office of Papal Liturgical Celebrations]] |access-date=16 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819150158/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2003/documents/ns_lit_doc_20031021_titoli-diaconie-cardinali_en.html |archive-date=19 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://zenit.org/articles/the-new-cardinals-and-their-duties/ | work = Zenit | access-date = 25 August 2017 | title = The New Cardinals and Their Duties | date = 21 October 2003}}</ref> On 24 November 2003, he was made a member of the [[Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments]] and the [[Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life]].<ref>{{cite press release | language = it | access-date = 8 March 2019 | date = 24 November 2003 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2003/11/24/0592/01835.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 24.11.2003}}</ref>
Barbarin 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>{{cite web |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/04/18/0225/00461.html |title=Elenco degli Em.mi Cardinali che entrano in Conclave secondo il loro rispettivo ordine di precedenza (Vescovi, Presbiteri, Diaconi) |date=18 April 2005 |website=[[Holy See Press Office|Sala Stampa della Santa Sede]] |language=it |trans-title=List of the Eminent Cardinals entering into Conclave according to their respective order of precedence (Bishops, Priests, Deacons) |access-date=18 April 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309025237/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/04/18/0225/00461.html |archive-date=9 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in the [[Papal conclave, 2013|2013 papal conclave]] that elected [[Pope Francis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/03/12/0146/00364.html |title=Elenco dei Cardinali che entrano in Conclave secondo il loro rispettivo ordine e precedenza (Vescovi, Presbiteri, Diaconi) |date=12 March 2013 |website=[[Holy See Press Office|Sala Stampa della Santa Sede]] |language=it |trans-title=List of Cardinals entering into Conclave according to their respective order of precedence (Bishops, Priests, Deacons) |access-date=12 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185432/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/03/12/0146/00364.html |archive-date=3 May 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Barbarin was also one of the [[Cardinal electors in the 2025 papal conclave|cardinal electors]] who participated in the [[2025 papal conclave]] which 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>
===Health=== Barbarin suffered a double heart attack on a flight from Lyon to 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro. He was taken to a hospital in [[Cayenne]], [[French Guiana]], where he received a coronary angiography. He was transferred to [[Fort de France]], [[Martinique]], where he underwent a triple bypass operation on 23 July 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/cardinal-philippe-barbarin-suffers-heart-attack|title=Cardinal Philippe Barbarin Suffers Heart Attack| work = Zenit| date = 24 July 2013 |access-date = 7 March 2019 }}</ref>
===Handling sexual abuse=== Barbarin, and several now deceased archbishops of Lyon before him, did not report to civil authorities the sexual abuse committed by priest [[Bernard Preynat]] during Boy Scout outings between 1986 and 1991. Failure to report such crimes to police is by itself a crime under French law.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/02/12/le-cardinal-barbarin-rattrape-par-une-affaire-de-pedophilie-qu-il-n-a-pas-denoncee_1432970|title=Le cardinal Barbarin rattrapé par une affaire de pédophilie qu'il n'a pas dénoncée|language =fr | work = Libération | access-date = 7 March 2019 | date=12 February 2016 | first = Bernadette | last = Sauvaget}}</ref> Barbarin, four of his subordinates, and [[Gerhard Ludwig Müller|Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller]], Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]] in the [[Holy See|Vatican]], were defendants in a lawsuit by the former boy scouts abused by Preynat.<ref>{{cite news |agency= Catholic News Service |url=http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/02/23/french-cardinal-criticised-over-handling-of-abuse-allegations/|title=French cardinal criticised over handling of abuse allegations |work= Catholic Herald |date=23 February 2016|access-date = 7 March 2019}}</ref> A judge conducted a preliminary inquiry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/03/04/une-plainte-contre-le-cardinal-barbarin-et-le-vatican_1437589|title=Une plainte contre le cardinal Barbarin et le Vatican|language =fr| work = Libération |access-date = 7 March 2019 | date= 4 March 2016 | first = Bernadette |last=Sauvaget }}</ref> On 1 August 2016, the prosecuting attorney dropped the case largely based on concerns about the statute of limitations.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2016/08/01/pedophilie-l-enquete-pour-non-denonciation-visant-le-cardinal-barbarin-a-ete-classee-sans-suite_4977090_1653578.html|title=Pédophilie: pourquoi le parquet a classé l'affaire Barbarin sans suite|first=Emeline|last=Cazi|date=1 August 2016|language = fr| work =Le Monde}}</ref> However, Barbarin and six other priests were charged in 2017 for their failure to report the incidents to the civil authorities.<ref name=2017charge>{{cite news | first = Will | last = Worley |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/philippe-barbarin-child-sex-abuse-not-report-trial-court-france-cardinal-catholic-church-a7955521.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/philippe-barbarin-child-sex-abuse-not-report-trial-court-france-cardinal-catholic-church-a7955521.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=French cardinal Philippe Barbarin to face trial for not reporting child abuse|date=19 September 2017|website=The Independent}}</ref> The trial was scheduled to begin on 4 April 2018,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.france24.com/en/20170919-france-cardinal-barbarin-face-trial-cover-clerical-sex-abuse|title=French Cardinal Barbarin to face trial for covering up clerical sex abuse|date=19 September 2017|publisher =France 24}}</ref> but was postponed.<ref>{{cite news|date=13 March 2018|access-date=7 March 2019|url=https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/8717/trial-of-cdf-prefect-and-cardinal-barbarin-postponed|title=Trial of CDF prefect and Cardinal Barbarin postponed|work=The Tablet|first=Tom|last=Heneghan|archive-date=3 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250503143630/https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/8717/trial-of-cdf-prefect-and-cardinal-barbarin-postponed|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Prosecutor Charlotte Trabut announced that she would not file charges because the statute of limitations had passed for some charges and there was insufficient evidence to support conviction.<ref name=bypass>{{cite news|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190110-france-prosecutor-declines-press-charges-lyon-cardinal-barbarin-sex-abuse|title=Prosecutor declines to press charges at French cardinal's cover-up trial|date=10 January 2019|access-date = 7 March 2019 | publisher=France 24}}</ref><ref name=cbsnews>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-catholic-cardinal-lyon-philippe-barbarin-church-sexual-abuse-cover-up/|title=French court likely to acquit Catholic cardinal of sex abuse cover-up|date= 10 January 2019| access-date = 7 March 2019 |work = CBS News}}</ref> The victims invoked their right to press charges,<ref name=bypass /> and Barbarin's trial began on 7 January 2019.<ref name=jan7trial>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cardinal-trial-frances-biggest-church-sex-abuse-trial-60205065|title=Cardinal on trial in France's biggest church sex abuse trial|work = ABC News| date= 7 January 2019 |first= Nicolas| last= Vaux-Montagny| agency = Associated Press | access-date = 7 March 2019}}</ref><ref name=jan7guardian>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/07/archbishop-of-lyon-cardinal-philippe-barbarin-goes-on-trial-accused-of-helping-cover-up-abuse|title=French cardinal goes on trial accused of helping cover up abuse|first1=Harriet|last1=Sherwood|date=7 January 2019| work = The Guardian|access-date = 7 March 2019 }}</ref> Five priests accused of assisting Barbarin in the cover-up were co-defendants.<ref name=trialbegins>{{cite news| url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/trial-begins-for-french-cardinal-accused-of-abuse-cover-up-69020/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108200657/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/trial-begins-for-french-cardinal-accused-of-abuse-cover-up-69020| url-status=dead| archive-date=8 January 2019|title=Trial begins for French cardinal accused of abuse cover-up| publisher =Catholic News Agency | date= 7 January 2019 |access-date = 7 March 2019 }}</ref> The trial ended on 10 January,<ref name=cbsnews /> and, on 7 March, Barbarin was found guilty and given a suspended prison sentence of six months.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2019-03/cardinal-barbarin-suspended-sentence-lyon-abuse-vatiab.html | title = France: Card. Barbarin sentenced to six months suspended sentence | publisher = Vatican News | date= 7 March 2019 | access-date = 31 January 2020}}</ref> His co-defendants were acquitted. Barbarin's attorney said his client would appeal the verdict.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/philippe-barbarin-french-cardinal-found-guilty-of-failing-to-act-on-sexual-abuse-allegations|title=French cardinal found guilty of covering up sexual abuse|first=Harriet |last=Sherwood|date=7 March 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref> Barbarin said he intended to meet with Pope Francis and resign as Archbishop of Lyon.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 7 March 2019 | url = https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/40745/french-cardinal-to-resign-after-conviction-for-failing-to-report-abuse| publisher = Catholic News Agency | date= 7 March 2019 | title = French cardinal to resign after conviction for failing to report abuse}}</ref> Barbarin was reported to have planned to resign "for the good of the Archdiocese" no matter what the verdict.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://international.la-croix.com/news/cardinal-barbarin-had-decided-to-resign-15-days-before-verdict/9636|title=Cardinal Barbarin had decided to resign 15 days before verdict|first =Claire |last=Lesegretain|newspaper=[[La Croix International]]|date=11 March 2019|access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref>
===Post-trial status=== Barbarin submitted his resignation to Pope Francis in person on 18 March 2019.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/18/french-cardinal-convicted-of-abuse-cover-up-meets-pope/ | agency = Catholic News Service | work = Crux | access-date = 19 March 2019 | title = French cardinal, convicted of abuse cover-up, meets pope | date = 18 March 2019 | archive-date = 22 August 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190822175338/https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/18/french-cardinal-convicted-of-abuse-cover-up-meets-pope/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> Francis, "invoking the presumption of innocence", refused the resignation and asked Barbarin to take whatever action he thought appropriate. Barbarin announced on 19 March that Yves Baumgarten, vicar general of the Archdiocese, would replace him temporarily.<ref>{{cite news | work= New York Times | access-date = 19 March 2019 | date= 19 March 2019 | title = Pope Rejects Resignation of French Cardinal Convicted of Abuse Cover-Up |first1= Elisabetta|last1= Povoledo |first2=Aurelien |last2=Breeden | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/world/europe/pope-cardinal-barbarin-resignation.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = 19 March 2019 | url = http://m.leparisien.fr/societe/retrait-de-mgr-barbarin-son-remplacant-yves-baumgarten-a-ete-percepteur-des-impots-19-03-2019-8035242.php |work= Le Parisien | language = fr | date= 19 March 2019 | title = Retrait de Mgr Barbarin: son remplaçant, Yves Baumgarten, a été percepteur des impôts| first = Vincent |last= Mongaillar| trans-title = Withdrawal of Bishop Barbarin: his successor, Yves Baumgarten, was a tax collector }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work= Le Monde | language = fr | title = Le pape François refuse la démission du cardinal Barbarin| access-date = 19 March 2019 | date= 19 March 2019 | url = https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/19/le-pape-francois-refuse-la-demission-du-cardinal-barbarin-condamne-pour-non-denonciation-d-atteintes-sexuelles_5438316_3224.html }}</ref>{{efn|On 5 July 2019, it was announced that the Vatican [[Loss of clerical state (Catholic Church)|defrocked]] Preynat after convicting him of sex abuse.<ref>{{cite news | publisher = Vatican News | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2019-07/french-priest-preynat-guilty-sexual-abuse-defrocked.html |first= Cyprien | last= Viet| access-date = 6 March 2020 |date=4 July 2019 | title= Fr Preynat found guilty of sex abuse and defrocked}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2019/07/05/french-priest-stripped-of-clergy-status-for-abusing-scouts/ | work = Crux | date = 5 July 2019 | access-date = 6 March 2020 | title = French priest stripped of clergy status for abusing Scouts | first = Angela | last = Charlton | archive-date = 6 July 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190706125305/https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2019/07/05/french-priest-stripped-of-clergy-status-for-abusing-scouts/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> During his second criminal trial in January 2019, which involves 35 cases of sex abuse, Preynat confessed that he had a habit of "caressing" boy scouts he oversaw when he served as scout chaplain in a Lyon suburb and that he did so in a way that brought him "sexual pleasure."<ref name=preynat>{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51090077 | title= Church sexual abuse: French priest Preynat admits 'caressing' boys | access-date = 6 March 2020 | work = BBC News | date=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref name=2016andtoday>{{cite news | url = https://www.france24.com/en/20200115-they-could-have-helped-me-paedophile-french-priest-says-of-church-during-trial | access-date = 6 March 2020 | title= Paedophile French priest says Church 'could have helped' him | date=15 January 2020 | publisher = France 24}}</ref>}}
On 24 June 2019, Pope Francis named Michel Dubost, Bishop emeritus of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes|Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes]], to serve as apostolic administrator ''sede plena'' of the Archdiocese, which meant Dubost had authority over the affairs of the archdiocese while Barbarin retained his archbishop's title.<ref name=sedeplena>{{cite news | url = https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2019/06/24/pope-names-administrator-for-lyon-as-cardinal-appeals-conviction/ | access-date = 31 January 2020 | title = Pope names administrator for Lyon as cardinal appeals conviction | agency = Catholic News Service | first = Cindy | last = Wooden | publisher = Crux | archive-date = 30 July 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190730194645/https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2019/06/24/pope-names-administrator-for-lyon-as-cardinal-appeals-conviction/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> Barbarin's conviction was overturned on appeal on 30 January 2020.<ref name=overturn/> The appeals court accepted Barbarin's arguments that the law did not require him to report the allegations to authorities because he learned of their allegations when Preynat's victims were adults and that he had not discouraged them making their allegations directly to the police.<ref>{{cite news | work= New York Times | date= 30 January 2020| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/world/europe/cardinal-abuse-franc.html| access-date = 30 January 2020 | title= French Cardinal Acquitted of Abuse Cover-Up on Appeal | first = Aurelien | last= Breeden }}</ref> Barbarin said he planned to meet with Pope Francis to submit his resignation again.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/France/Relaxe-Philippe-Barbarin-nouveau-remettre-demission-pape-2020-01-30-1201075289 | access-date = 1 February 2020 | language = fr | title = Relaxé, Philippe Barbarin va de nouveau remettre sa démission au pape | date= 30 January 2020 | work = La Croix | first1 = Nicolas | last1 = Senèze | first2= Benevent | last2=Tosseri}}</ref>
Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 6 March 2020.<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 6 March 2020 | language = it | date= 6 March 2020 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2020/03/06/0144/00314.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 06.03.2020 }}</ref> Bernard Preynat was convicted of sexually assaulting boy scouts and given a five-year prison sentence on 16 March 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200316-french-priest-gets-5-yr-jail-term-for-sex-assault-of-boy-scouts|title = French priest gets 5-yr jail term for sex assault of boy scouts|date = 16 March 2020}}</ref><ref>https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/5-year-sentence-for-French-priest-who-abused-boy-15133840.php {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> The [[Court of Cassation (France)|Court of Cassation]]—the highest court of France—cleared Barbarin in April 2021.<ref>{{cite news|title=France's top court clear Cardinal Barbarin in abuse case |author=<!--not stated--> |website=Deutsche Welle |date=14 April 2021 |url= https://www.dw.com/en/frances-top-court-clear-cardinal-barbarin-in-abuse-case/a-57206223}}</ref>
== In popular culture == Barbarin was played by [[François Marthouret]] in the French film ''[[By the Grace of God (film)|By the Grace of God]],'' which chronicled a sex abuse scandal involving the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon|Archdiocese of Lyon]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hans|first=Simran|date=2019-10-27|title=By the Grace of God review – thoughtful abuse drama|language=en-GB|work=The Observer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/27/by-the-grace-of-god-review-church-abuse-drama-simran-hans|access-date=2020-04-30|issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='By the Grace of God' explores clerical abuse with honesty, intelligence|url=https://catholicphilly.com/2019/10/culture/by-the-grace-of-god-explores-clerical-abuse-with-honesty-intelligence/|website=Catholic Philly|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Catholic Church in France]] * [[List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of France]]
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Philippe Barbarin}} * {{cite web| access-date = 26 November 2017| title= Barbarin Card. Philippe |publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | url= https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_barbarin_p.html | url-status=live | archive-date= 4 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170904105419/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_barbarin_p.html }} * [https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios-b.htm#Barbarin bio on fiu.edu] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20031220222202/http://www.catholic-pages.com/hierarchy/cardinals_bio.asp?ref=225 Philippe Barbarin bio]}} * {{YouTube|-N2Zo6VJ2zM|Salt+Light TV Interview: Cardinal Philippe Barbarin – Witness}}
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