Cardinal Lustiger
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His Eminence Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Paris | |
Lustiger outside Notre Dame Cathedral, 15 August 1988
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| See | Paris |
| Installed | 31 January 1981 |
| Term ended | 11 February 2005 (retired) |
| Predecessor | François Marty |
| Successor | André Vingt-Trois |
| Other posts | Bishop of Orléans (1979-1981) |
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| Ordination | 17 April 1954 by Bishop Émile-Arsène Blanchet |
| Consecration | 8 December 1979 by Cardinal François Marty |
| Created Cardinal | 2 February 1983 by John Paul II |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Aaron Lustiger |
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17 September 1926 Paris |
| Died | 5 August 2007 (aged 80) Paris, France |
| Buried | Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Charles & Gisèle Lustiger |
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Styles of Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Paris (emeritus) |
Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi lystiʒe]; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was created cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His life is depicted in the 2013 film Le métis de Dieu (The Jewish Cardinal).
Lustiger was born Aaron Lustiger in Paris to a Jewish family. His parents, Charles and Gisèle Lustiger, were Ashkenazi Jews from Będzin, Poland, who had left Poland around World War I. Lustiger's father ran a hosiery shop. Aaron Lustiger studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered anti-Semitism. Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an anti-Nazi Protestant family whose children had been required to join the Hitler Youth.
Sometime between the ages of ten and twelve, Lustiger came across a Protestant Bible and felt inexplicably attracted to it. On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the family moved to Orléans.
In March 1940, during Holy Week, the 13-year-old Lustiger decided to convert to Roman Catholicism. On 21 August he was baptized as Aaron Jean-Marie by the Bishop of Orléans, Jules Marie Courcoux. His sister converted later. In October 1940, the Vichy regime passed the first Statute on Jews, which forced Jews in France to wear a yellow badge. Although Jean-Marie Lustiger lived hidden in Orléans, his parents had to wear the badge.
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