Yves Congar
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His Eminence Yves Marie-Joseph Congar, O.P. |
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| Cardinal Deacon of the Basilica of San Sebastiano al Palatino | |
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| Appointed | 26 November 1994 |
| Term ended | 22 June 1995 |
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| Created Cardinal | 26 November 1994 |
| Rank | Cardinal Deacon |
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13 April 1904 Sedan, Ardennes, France |
| Died | 22 June 1995 (aged 90) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (Yves M.J. Congar, Yves Marie Joseph Congar, Yves-Marie-Joseph Congar), O.P. (13 April 1904 – 22 June 1995), was a French Dominican friar, Catholic priest and theologian. He was made a cardinal of the Catholic Church in 1994.
Congar was born in Sedan in northeast France in 1904. His father Georges Congar was a bank manager. Congar's hometown was occupied by the Germans for much of World War I, and his father was among the men deported by the Germans to Lithuania. Upon the urging of his mother, Lucie Congar née Desoye (called "Tere" by Yves throughout his life), Congar recorded the occupation in an extensive series of illustrated diaries which were later published. They provide a unique historical insight into the war from a child's point of view.
Encouraged by a local priest, Daniel Lallement, Congar entered the diocesan seminary. In 1921 he moved to Paris, to study philosophy. He went to courses by Jacques Maritain, and went to retreats conducted near Paris by the Dominican theologian Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
After a year of compulsory military service (1924-5) which Congar spent in the Rhineland, in 1925 he joined the Dominican Order at Amiens where he took "Marie-Joseph" as his name in religion. Towards the end of his theological studies from 1926-31 at Le Saulchoir, the Dominican studium and seminary, which at the time was located in Kain-la-Tombe, Belgium, and trained in historical theology, Congar was ordained a priest on 25 July 1930 by Luigi Maglione, nuncio in Paris. In 1931, Congar defended his doctoral dissertation written at Le Saulchoir and about the unity of the Church.
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