RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jean Marcel Honoré

1920 - 2013

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Jean Marcel Honoré () (13 August 1920 – 28 February 2013) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a former archbishop of Tours. He was born in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès. He was ordained on 29 June 1943 after studying at the seminary in Rennes, and from 1958 to 1964 was secretary general of the National Commission for Religious Education and director of the National Centre of Religious Teaching. He was made Bishop of Évreux in 1972 and Archbishop of Tours in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Marcel Honoré is the 2,767th most popular religious figure (down from 2,725th in 2019), the 4,448th most popular biography from France (up from 4,597th in 2019) and the 212th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jean Marcel Honoré ranks 2,767 out of 3,187Before him are Simeon the Holy Fool, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Michel Garicoïts, Flavian I of Antioch, and Arnobius the Younger. After him are Fakhr-un-Nisa, Vladimir Lossky, Jean de Sponde, Leo Makkonen, Jan Graubner, and Nicholas Wiseman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jean Marcel Honoré ranks 313Before him are George London, I. A. L. Diamond, Konstantin Beskov, Denver Pyle, Robert Leckie, and Vincent Gardenia. After him are Yuri Nagibin, Putra of Perlis, Marie Ljalková, Ruth Maier, Ljubomir Lovrić, and Ali Sabri. Among people deceased in 2013, Jean Marcel Honoré ranks 320Before him are Trevor Bolder, Armen Alchian, Ladislav Pavlovič, Rossella Falk, Moses Blah, and Lidiya Ponomarenko. After him are Manna Dey, Hal Needham, Pyotr Todorovsky, Ann-Britt Leyman, Valeri Zolotukhin, and Boris Vasilyev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Marcel Honoré ranks 4,448 out of 6,770Before him are Judith Godrèche (1972), Betsy Jolas (1926), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Karen Lancaume (1973), Christine Goitschel (1944), and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808). After him are Charles Joseph Minard (1781), Victor Bérard (1864), Lucien Clergue (1934), Frantz Reichel (1871), Saint-Pol-Roux (1861), and Jean Richard (1921).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jean Marcel Honoré ranks 212Before him are Philibert of Jumièges (608), Jean-Louis Bruguès (1943), Adalbero of Reims (null), Ratramnus (800), Jacques Gaillot (1935), and Michel Garicoïts (1797). After him are Jean de Sponde (1557), Jean Hardouin (1646), Léon-Étienne Duval (1903), Claude Dagens (1940), Birinus (600), and Eric of Friuli (800).