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Yves Congar
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Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (Yves M.J. 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.

Contents

His Eminence

Yves Marie-Joseph Congar, O.P.

Cardinal Deacon of the Basilica of San Sebastiano
al Palatino
Appointed

26 November 1994

Term ended

22 June 1995
Orders

1 Early life

Ordination

25 July 1930

2 Priest and POW

Created Cardinal

26 November 1994

3 Scholar and ecumenist

Rank

Cardinal Deacon

4 Cardinal and death

5 Selected works

Personal details
Born

13 April 1904
Sedan, Ardennes, France

Died

22 June 1995 (aged 91)

Paris, France

Nationality

French

Denomination

Roman Catholic

6 Media Portrayal
7 References
8 External links

Early life

Coat of arms

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 ne Desoye (called "Tere" by Yves
throughout his life), Congar recorded the occupation in an extensive series of illustrated diaries which were later
published.[1] 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.

Priest and POW

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

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