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Yves Congar
Yves Congar
1904 CE–1995 CE · Modern · Sedan
Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (1904–1995) was a French Dominican friar, priest, and cardinal who became one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. Drawing on biblical, patristic, and medieval sources, he revitalized Catholic ecclesiology and pioneered serious Catholic engagement with ecumenism at a time when such work aroused Vatican suspicion; Vatican restrictions on his writing began as early as 1947, and from 1954 he was forbidden to teach and sent into physical exile until 1956. His rehabilitation came decisively at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), where he served as a peritus and shaped the core documents on the Church (Lumen Gentium), revelation (Dei Verbum), and ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio). His three-volume I Believe in the Holy Spirit (1979–1980 in French) stands as the most substantial Catholic pneumatology of the modern era. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal deacon in a public consistory on 26 November 1994, one year before his death.
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Stop 1 of 81904–1925Birthplace, Early Formation
SedanFrance
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Born April 13, 1904; childhood in the Ardennes was marked by German occupation and his father's deportation during World War I.
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Sedan, a town in the Ardennes of northeastern France. It was the birthplace of the Dominican theologian Yves Congar (1904), a major figure of the Second Vatican Council.
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