Jean-Louis Tauran

His Eminence Jean-Louis Tauran
President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

Predecessor	Paul Poupard and Tarcisio Bertone
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine pro hac vice
Orders
Ordination	20 September 1969 by Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers
Consecration	6 January 1991 by Pope John Paul II
Created Cardinal	21 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II
Rank	Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born	(1943-04-05) 5 April 1943 (age 74) Bordeaux, France
Nationality	French
Denomination	Catholic (Roman Rite)
Previous post	Secretary for Relations with States (1990–2003) Librarian of the Holy Roman Church (2003–2007) Titular Archbishop of Telephte (1990-2003) Archivist of the Holy Roman Church (2003–2007) Protodeacon of the College of Cardinals (2011–2014)
Motto	Veritate et Caritate (For truth and for love)
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Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran (born 5 April 1943) is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Roman Curia. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. He has been the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since 20 December 2014.

Born in Bordeaux, France, Tauran studied at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, earning licentiates in philosophy and theology and a doctorate in canon law. He also studied at Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome and Catholic University of Toulouse, France. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marius Maziers on 20 September 1969 and worked as a curate in the Archdiocese of Bordeaux before entering the Vatican's diplomatic service in 1975. He was secretary of the nunciatures to the Dominican Republic (1975–1978) and to Lebanon (1979–1983). Tauran became an official of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church in 1983, and then participated in special missions in Haiti (1984), and Beirut and Damascus (1986). He was also a member of the Vatican delegation to the meetings of the Conference on European Security and Cooperation, Conference on Disarmament in Stockholm, and Cultural Forum in Budapest and later Vienna.