Jean-Baptiste Urrutia (6 November 1901 – 15 January 1979) was a French Roman Catholic missionary from the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was an attendee at the Second Vatican Council.

Jean-Baptiste Urrutia

Vicar Apostolic of Huế
Titular Archbishop of Isauropolis
Titular Archbishop of Carpathus
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
DioceseHuế
SeeDiocese of Isauropolis
Installed12 February 1948
Term ended24 November 1960
PredecessorFrançois Lemasle (Huế)
Stanislas Baudry (Isauropolis)
SuccessorNgô Đình Thục (Huế)
Philip Pocock (Isauropolis)
Orders
Ordination6 June 1925
by Jean Budes de Guébriant
Consecration27 May 1948
by Antonin Drapier
Personal details
Born(1901-11-06)6 November 1901
Died15 January 1979(1979-01-15) (aged 77)
Montbeton, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

Ordained in 1925, he was sent to Annam in French Indochina. He taught at the An Ninh Minor Seminary,[1] where he had François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận as a student. He ordained Thuận in 1953. Urrutia was consecrated bishop in partibus in 1948 and made Titular Bishop of Isauropolis as well as apostolic vicar of the Huế during the Indochina War.

He retired in 1960, near Our Lady of La Vang Sanctuary and was expelled from Vietnam in 1975 by the communists.[2] He spent his last years in Montbeton, France, where he died in 1979, aged 77.

References

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  1. ^ Archives of the Foreign Missions Society
  2. ^ Archives of the Foreign Missions Society
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