Robert-Joseph Coffy

{{Short description|French Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{one source|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Robert-Joseph Coffy |title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[Archbishop of Marseille|Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |archdiocese = Marseille |see = Marseille |appointed = 13 April 1985 |term_end = 22 April 1995 |predecessor = [[Roger Etchegaray]] |successor = [[Bernard Panafieu]] |other_post = [[San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort|Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort]] (1991–95) |ordination = 28 October 1944 |consecration = 23 April 1967 |consecrated_by = Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Sauvage |cardinal = 28 June 1991 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] |birth_name = Robert-Joseph Coffy |birth_date = 24 October 1920 |birth_place = [[Le Biot]], [[France]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1995|07|15|1920|10|24}} |death_place = [[Saint-Zacharie]], France |buried = [[Marseille Cathedral]] |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Bishop of Gap]] (1967–74)|[[Archbishop of Albi]] (1974–85)}} |coat_of_arms = [[File:Coat of arms of Robert Coffy.svg|140px]] |motto = ''Sint unum'' }}

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'''Robert Joseph Coffy''' (24 October 1920 – 15 July 1995) was a [[French people|French]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] and [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille|Archbishop of Marseille]].

==Early life and education== Coffy was born on 24 October 1920 in [[Le Biot]].<ref name="Tincq 1995">{{cite news |last1=Tincq |first1=Henri |title=Le cardinal Robert Coffy: Un théologien discret, mais estimé |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1995/07/18/le-cardinal-robert-coffy-un-theologien-discret-mais-estime_3859716_1819218.html |work=[[Le Monde]] |date=18 July 1995 |issn=0395-2037 |language=fr |access-date=2 September 2021 |archive-date=12 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912211923/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1995/07/18/le-cardinal-robert-coffy-un-theologien-discret-mais-estime_3859716_1819218.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His father was a carpenter.<ref name="Tincq 1995"/> He entered the [[Seminary]] in [[Lyon]] and was ordained to the priesthood 28 October 1944. He carried out pastoral work in [[Annecy]] for a year in 1946. He taught as a faculty member where he had been taught in 1948. In the [[diocese of Annecy]] he was transferred to be a faculty member of its major seminary from 1949 to 1952, becoming its [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] in 1952.

==Episcopate== He was appointed as [[Bishop of Gap]] by [[Pope Paul VI]] in 1967. He was appointed to the [[metropolitan see of Albi]] on 15 June 1974. He was transferred to the archdiocese of Marseille by [[Pope John Paul II]] on 13 April 1985.

==Cardinalate==

Archbishop Coffy was created [[Cardinal-Priest]] of ''[[San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort]]'' in the consistory of 28 June 1991. He resigned the government of the archdiocese in 1995, dying shortly afterward.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/cardJP2-5.htm#277 GCatholic.org]

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