Jean-Louis Tauran
 Jean-Louis Tauran    (prelate, diplomat, spook) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 April 1943 Bordeaux, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 July 2018 (Age 75) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Catholic University of Toulouse | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. Tauran's was Secretary for Relations with States from 1990 until 2003. Toran may also have been the coordinator of the intelligence services of the Roman Catholic Church.
When he died, he had been the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 2007 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since the end of 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. His earlier career included almost thirty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and several years as the Vatican's chief archivist and librarian.[1]
Activities
Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran was appointed Foreign Minister of the Vatican in 1990. His activities are all the hot spots of the decade. He was in Cuba, Iraq, Israel, Belgrade, negotiated in Kosovo and Indonesia, East Timor, Taiwan, Latvia and Russia, where he met with Boris Yeltsin.[2]
