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As cardinal proto-diocese, the cardinal with the highest rank, Tauran was the one who 13 March 2013 privilege to announce with the traditional "Habemus Papam" ] the election of Argentine Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francisco.
Parkinson
The French cardinal, Parkinson's patient since 2012, he was appointed in 2014 lit rlengo, character administered by the Holy See during the so-called period between the death of the pope and the election of the new pontiff
The cardinal, regarded as an intelligent traveler, hardworking and tireless, also appreciated his discretion and loyalty, they took to be in high curial offices with the last three popes.
Secretary of Juan Pablo II
With Juan Pablo II he was Secretary of Relations for the States, a kind of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Vatican, then the Polish Pope put him at the head of the Vatican Library and Secret Archives.
Benedict XVI again gave him an important position at the Curia, as president of the Religious Dialogue, to revive relations with Islam. speech at the University of Regensburg which provoked the protests of the Islamic world for the misunderstanding on the figure of Muhammad.
Since 2007, he was presiding over the Pontifical Council for Religious Dialogue, position from which he promoted relations with Islam.
His last trip, in April of this year, went to Saudi Arabia where he met King Salman during the first visit of a high-place Curia in this country
Birth
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran was born in Bordeaux ( France ) on April 5, 1943. He finished his clbadical studies at the Lycée Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux and After two years at the diocesan seminary, he was sent to Rome as a student of the Pontifical Seminary and the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he finished his studies. Philosophy and theology, obtaining degrees in philosophy and theology.
On September 20, 1969, he was ordained a priest and after having worked for three years as parish priest in Bordeaux, he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (Attica de la Iglesia)
From 1975 to 1978, he worked at the nunciature of Santo Domingo and between 1979 and 1983 in Lebanon. Later he was called to Rome and on October 3, 1988 he was appointed Under Secretary of Relations. He was appointed secretary of this institution on 1 December 1990.
On 6 January 1991, he was consecrated bishop by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica and in August 1991 he led a special delegation of the Holy – Siege in Belgrade to try to put an end to the Kosovo crisis
On December 16, 1995, the Vatican sent for the first time Bishop Tauran to Israel, during an official visit inscribed on the island. agenda. the delicate problem of Jerusalem
In October 1996, he went to Havana, where he met the Cuban President of the time, Fidel Castro, after which he confirmed the official journey of the Pope in the island , which took place in January 1998.
Tauran was decorated in 1997 with the Great Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica, of Spain, and in 1999 with the Order of the Sun of Peru
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