Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray

His Eminence Roger Etchegaray
President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Roger Etchegaray in Sarajevo, 2012
See	Porto-Santa Rufina
Appointed	8 April 1984
Term ended	24 June 1998
Predecessor	Agostino Casaroli
Other posts	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Orders
Ordination	13 July 1947 by Jean Saint-Pierre
Consecration	27 May 1969 by Gabriel Auguste François Marty
Created Cardinal	30 June 1979
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Birth name	Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray
Born	(1922-09-25) 25 September 1922 (age 95) Espelette
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Previous post	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (1969–1970) Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia (1969–1970) Archbishop of Marseille (1970–1985) Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny (1975–1982) Cardinal-Priest of San Leone I (1979–1998) President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” (1984–1995) Sub-Dean of the College of Cardinals (2005–2017)

Styles of Roger Etchegaray
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray (French pronunciation: ​[ʁɔʒe ɛtʃɛɡaʁaj]; born 25 September 1922, in Espelette/Ezpeleta, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church (Roman Rite).

Etchegaray served as the archbishop of Marseille from 1970 to 1985 before entering the Roman Curia, where he served as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (1984–1998) and President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1984–1995). He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.

On 24 December 2009 he was seriously injured in an unsuccessful attack on Pope Benedict XVI while processing into Mass at St Peter's Basilica. Etchegaray was hospitalized with broken bones.

Etchegaray, of Basque stock, was born in the Northern Basque Country to Jean-Batiste and Aurélie Etchegaray. The eldest of three children, he has two younger siblings, Jean and Maïté; their father worked as an agricultural mechanic.

He attended the minor seminary in Ustaritz and the major seminary in Bayonne before studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he obtained a Licentiate of Sacred Theology and a Doctorate of Canon Law. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Jean Saint-Pierre on 13 July 1947.