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On 31 January 1981 he succeeded Cardinal Marty in the Archdiocese of Paris.
After a decade as parish priest in Paris, in 1979 Lustiger became Bishop of Orleans, and then Archbishop of Paris in 1981. That is my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it."
The former chief rabbi of France, Rabbi René Samuel Sirat, says he personally witnessed Lustiger entering the synagogue to recite kaddish — the Jewish mourners' prayer — for his mother.
During this time, he has given numerous homilies and conferences in France and abroad.
Staunch defender of human rights, upon his announcement of being named Cardinal, he said that he considers this dignity more as a responsibility than an honour, in so far as "it concerns carrying even more the burden of the whole Church".
Archbishop emeritus of Paris, 11 February 2005.
Ordinary emeritus for Eastern-Rite faithful in France without ordinaries of their own, 14 March 2005.
President Delegate to the 1st Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops (1991).
He participated in the conclave of April 2005, which elected Pope Benedict XVI.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by St. John Paul II in the consistory of 2 February 1983, of the Title of St. Louis of the French.
Cardinal Lustiger died on 5 August 2007.
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Lustiger was an outspoken opponent of racism and anti-Semitism. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005.
Klein called Lustiger "his cousin ."
In 2006, Lustiger visited Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and addressed the students and faculty along with fellow visiting European bishops. On 21 August he was baptized as Aaron Jean-Marie by the Bishop of Orléans, Jules Marie Courcoux.
The police were called to a similar sit-in at St. Merry. Following Marcel Lefebvre's schism in June 1988, Lustiger tried to reduce tensions with the Traditionalist Catholics, celebrating a Tridentine Mass, sending a conservative priest Patrick Le Gal as his emissary to Lefebvre Along with Cardinal Albert Decourtray, he strongly criticised Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988, clashing with the liberal bishop, Jacques Gaillot.
Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an anti-Nazi Protestant family whose children had been required to join the Hitler Youth.
Cardinal Lustiger carried out several reforms in the Archdiocese of Paris, concerning the priests' formation, creating in 1984 an independent theological faculty in the École cathédrale de Paris, distinct from the Institut Catholique.
He deposed the priest Alain Maillard de La Morandais from his diplomatic functions towards the political sphere, as he considered him to be too pro-Balladur during the 1995 presidential campaign Despite his opposition to Mitterrand's governments, he presided as Archbishop of Paris over Mitterrand's funeral. Lustiger, who claimed that he was still a Jew, considered being "Jewish" as an ethnic designation and not exclusively a religious one.
This opposition cemented Lustiger's relations with the groups supporting private education, from whose midst he was to draw most of his candidates for the priesthood.
He founded KTO TV in 1999, which became a financial disaster.
Cardinal Lustiger had his right-hand man, André Vingt-Trois, appointed bishop in 1988. He has been at the forefront of Christian-Jewish dialogue within France and Europe, and has been a pivotal figure in debate on immigration issues, being particularly outspoken in his attacks on racism and the rise of right-wing extremism.
Aaron Lustiger studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered anti-Semitism. Sarkozy, on vacation in the United States, returned to attend Lustiger's funeral. In 1974, Pope Paul VI had opened her cause for beatification, which placed her on the path toward possible sainthood.