Jean-Pierre Ricard

His Eminence Jean-Pierre Ricard
Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Bordeaux
Church	Catholic
Archdiocese	Bordeaux
Installed	21 December 2001
Term ended	1 October 2019
Predecessor	Pierre Étienne Louis Eyt
Successor	Jean-Paul James
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino (2006‍–‍)
Previous post(s)	Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble (1993‍–‍1996) Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis (1993‍–‍1996) Coadjutor Bishop of Montpellier (1996) Bishop of Montpellier (1996‍–‍2001) Member, Council for the Economy (2014‍–‍2020)
Orders
Ordination	5 October 1968 by Georges Jacquot
Consecration	6 June 1993 by Robert-Joseph Coffy
Created cardinal	24 March 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	(1944-09-26) 26 September 1944 (age 79) Marseille, France
Motto	Propter Evangelium (Latin for 'For the Sake of the Gospel')
Coat of arms

Styles of Jean-Pierre Ricard
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Jean-Pierre Ricard (born 26 September 1944) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Bordeaux from 2001 to 2019. He has been a cardinal since 2006. He was previously Bishop of Montpellier for five years and before that an auxiliary bishop in Grenoble. From 2001 to 2007 he was president of the French Episcopal Conference.

In November 2022, Ricard admitted he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the 1980s when he was a parish priest.^[1] Both French prosecutors and the Holy See launched investigations, though criminal proceedings were dropped in February 2023 because the statute of limitations had expired.^[2] Church authorities then imposed restrictions on Ricard's exercise of his ministry for five years.^[3]