{{Short description|French cardinal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Pierre Eyt |title = [[Archbishop of Bordeaux]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |archdiocese = Bordeaux |see = Bordeaux |appointed = 31 May 1989 |term_end = 11 June 2001 |predecessor = [[Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers]] |successor = [[Jean-Pierre Ricard]] |other_post = [[Santissima Trinita al Monte Pincio|Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio]] (1994-2001) |ordination = 29 June 1961 |ordained_by = [[Paul Gouyon|Paul Joseph Marie Gouyon]] |consecration = 28 September 1986 |consecrated_by = [[Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers]] |cardinal = 26 November 1994 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] |birth_name = Pierre Étienne Louis Eyt |birth_date = 4 June 1934 |birth_place = Laruns, [[Bayonne]], [[French Third Republic]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2001|06|11|1934|06|04}} |death_place = [[Bordeaux]], [[France]] |parents = Jean Eyt<br>Joséphine Gabastou |previous_post = Coadjutor Archbishop of Bordeaux (1986-89) |alma_mater = [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] }}
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'''Pierre Étienne Louis Eyt''' [[Doctor of Sacred Theology|S.T.D.]] (4 June 1934 – 11 June 2001) was a [[French people|French]] [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church]] and [[Archbishopric of Bordeaux|Metropolitan Archbishop of Bordeaux]] and Bazas.
==Early life and priesthood== He was born in [[Laruns]], France as the son of Jean Eyt and Josephine Gabastou. He was educated at the [[Institute of Juridical and Economic Studies]] in [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]], the Seminary of [[Pope Pius XI|Pius XI]], the [[Seminary]] of the Catholic Institute and at the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in Rome where he earned his doctorate in [[theology]]. He was [[Holy orders|ordained]] on 29 June 1961.<ref name=A>[https://www.acistampa.com/story/17313/20-anni-fa-la-morte-del-cardinale-pierre-eyt-17313 Acistampa website, ''20 years since the death of Cardinal Pierre Eyt'', article dated June 11, 2021]</ref>
After his ordination he did pastoral work in the [[diocese of Bayonne]] from 1961 until 1963. He then worked as a faculty member and later vice-rector and then [[rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[Catholic Institute of Toulouse]] and then rector of the [[Catholic Institute]] in Paris in 1981.<ref name=A /> He also served as a member of the [[International Theological Commission]].
==Episcopate== [[Pope John Paul II]] appointed him [[Coadjutor bishop|coadjutor]] [[Archbishop]] of [[Bordeaux]] on 7 June 1986.<ref name=V>[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_eyt_p_it.html Vatican News website, College of Cardinals section, ''Biography, EYT Card. Pierre'']</ref> He was consecrated on 28 September of that year by [[Marius Maziers]] who was assisted by [[Jean-Marie Lustiger]] then [[Archbishop of Paris]], and by [[André Collini]], [[archbishop of Toulouse]]. He succeeded to the [[Metropolitan see of Bordeaux]] on 31 May 1989.<ref name=V />
==Cardinalate== He was created and proclaimed [[Cardinal-Priest]] of ''[[SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio]]'' in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 26 November 1994. He died on 11 June 2001 in Bordeaux<ref>[https://zenit.org/2001/06/11/french-cardinal-eyt-dies-at-age-67/ Zenit website, ''French Cardinal Eyt Dies at Age 67'', article dated June 11, 2001]</ref> and is buried at the cemetery of Laruns, where he was born.
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