Jean-Marie Villot

His Eminence Jean-Marie Villot
Secretary of State

See	Frascati
Appointed	2 May 1969
Term ended	9 March 1979
Predecessor	Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
Successor	Agostino Casaroli
Other posts	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber
Orders
Ordination	19 April 1930 by Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart
Consecration	12 October 1954 by Maurice Feltin
Created Cardinal	22 February 1965
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	(1905-10-11)11 October 1905 Saint-Amant-Tallende, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Died	9 March 1979(1979-03-09) (aged 73) Vatican City
Nationality	French
Previous post	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (1954–1959) Titular Bishop of Vinda (1954–1959) Coadjutor Archbishop of Lyon-Vienne (1959–1965) Titular Archbishop of Bosporus (1959–1965) Archbishop of Lyon-Vienne (1965–1967) Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio (1965–1974) Prefect of the Congregation of the Council (1967–1969) President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” (1971–1978)
Motto	auxilium a domino
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Jean-Marie Villot (11 October 1905 – 9 March 1979) was a French prelate and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1967 to 1969, Vatican Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979, and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1970 to 1979. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

He was born in Saint-Amant-Tallende, Puy-de-Dôme, to Joseph and Marie (née Laville) Villot; he was an only child. Before serving in the military until 2 August 1924, he studied for the priesthood in Riom, Clermont, and Lyon. He became a Marist novice on 7 September 1925, but left the order three months later. He went on to study at the Catholic Institute of Paris and the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum in Rome, where he earned a licentiate in canon law and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1934 with a thesis entitled Le pape Nicolas II et le décret de 1059 sur l'élection pontificale.

He was ordained a priest on 19 April 1930 by Archbishop Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart. Villot was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Paris, and, from 1931–34, he served as secretary to Pierre-Marie Gerlier, bishop of Tarbes-et-Lourdes. He taught at the Clermont seminary and the Catholic University in Lyon, becoming vice-rector of the latter in 1942 and holding the post for the next eight years.