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{{Short description|Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2011}}
{{Infobox personChristian leader
| name = Jean-Baptiste Gourion
| title = [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem]]
| image =
| image = Dom Grammont église.jpg
| alt =
| caption alt =
[[File:Dom| Grammontcaption = église.jpg|right|thumb|Dom Paul Grammont and Brother Jean-Baptiste Gourion at his right]]▼
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|10|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Oran]], [[French Algeria]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|06|23|1934|10|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Jerusalem]]
| nationality = [[France|French]]
| other_names =
| known_for =
| occupation =
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| appointed = [[Bishop]] of [[Lydda]]
| predecessor =
| other_post = Former Patriarchal [[Vicar]] of [[Hebrew catholics|Hebrew-speaking catholics in Israel]]
| ordination = 29 June 1967
| ordained_by =
| consecration = 9 November 2003
| consecrated_by = [[Patriarch]] [[Michel Sabbah]]
| rank = Bishop
| previous_post =
| coat_of_arms = Armoiries_de_Jean-Baptiste_Gourion.jpg
| motto = In Jerusalem Consolabimini
| honorific_prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend
| honorific_suffix = OSB Oliv.
}}
'''Jean-Baptiste Gourion''', [[Order of Saint BenedictOlivetans|O.S.B. Oliv.]] (24 October 1934 – 23 June 2005) was a French [[Catholic]] [[Benedictine]] [[monk]] andwho served as an [[auxiliaryAuxiliary Bishop]] of the [[Latin Patriarchate of bishopJerusalem]] from 2003 until his death in 2005.▼
 
▲[[File:Dom Grammont église.jpg|right|thumb|Dom Paul Grammont and Brother Jean-Baptiste Gourion at his right]]
▲'''Jean-Baptiste Gourion''', [[Order of Saint Benedict|O.S.B.]] (24 October 1934 – 23 June 2005) was a French [[Catholic]] [[Benedictine]] [[monk]] and [[auxiliary bishop]] from 2003 until his death in 2005.
 
==Biography==
Gourion was born in 1934 in [[Oran]], [[Algeria]], to a Jewish family, when Algeria was a French colony. When studying [[medicine]] in [[France]], he decided to enlist in the [[French Army]] during the [[Algerian War]].
Gourion converted from Judaism to the [[Catholic Church]] in 1958. In 1961, he entered a Benedictine Monastery, and in 1967, he was [[ordain]]ed a priest.<ref name="list1">
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| title = The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church – Bishop Jean-Baptiste Gourion, O.S.B.
| url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgour.html
Father}}</ref> Gourion came to [[Israel]] in 1976 with two other monks in order to rebuild the old [[monastery]] in [[Abu Ghosh|Abu Gosh]] and in 1999 was named its [[abbot]].<ref name="list2">▼
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▲Father Gourion came to [[Israel]] in 1976 with two other monks in order to rebuild the old [[monastery]] in [[Abu Gosh]] and in 1999 was named its [[abbot]].<ref name="list2">
{{Cite web
| title = Association of Hebrew Catholics – Interview with Bishop Jean-Baptiste Gourion, O.S.B.
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| url = http://hebrewcatholic.org/HCLives/Sholl-Andrew/hebrewcatholicbi.html
}}</ref> His mission notably included care of [[Hebrew Catholics]]' spiritual necessities.
 
He died on June 23, June 2005 at the age of 70.
 
==References==
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[[Category:2005 deaths]]
[[Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism]]
[[Category:FrenchAlgerian Jews]]
[[Category:French Roman CatholicsCatholic priests]]
[[Category:Israeli Roman Catholics]]
[[Category:French Benedictines]]
[[Category:Benedictine bishops]]
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[[Category:People of the Algerian War]]
[[Category:Israeli people of Algerian-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Israel]]
 
 
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