Jean-Baptiste Gourion was a Jew who infiltrated
Christianity & Holy
Mother Church. Sincere or Subversive? Pass. I
am dubious. The
Independent tells us that he was keen on getting Catholics together with
Jews. See
Obituaries - Bishop Gourion. That leaves me even more doubtful Jean-Baptiste Gourion
ex Wiki 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
French Army during the
Algerian War. Gourion converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1958. In 1961, he
entered a Benedictine Monastery and in 1967, he was ordained a priest.[1]
Father Gourion came to
Israel in
1976 with two other monks in order to rebuild the old monastery that was in
Abu Gosh and in 1999 was named abbot of the
monastery.[2] In 2003, Gourion was nominated Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarchate
of Jerusalem by Pope John Paul II. In the same year he was also appointed
the titular see of Lydda.[1][3]
His mission consisted to care of
Hebrew Catholics' spiritual necessities. He died on June 23, 2005.
Jean-Baptiste Gourion,
O.S.B. (24 October 1934 – 23 June 2005) was a French Jewish-born
Benedictine monk and auxiliary bishop from 2003 until his death.