Étienne Fouilloux


Etienne Fouilloux is a French university teacher primarily interested in the history of tensions within the twentieth century French Roman Catholic Church and the contemporary publication of works of Christian antiquity.

Career and background

He is currently emeritus and honorary professor of Lumière Lyon-2 University where he taught as Director of the André Latreille Centre of religious history, Fouilloux had previously worked at Paris-X Nanterre, Caen Universities. In addition to French agrégé and doctorat qualifications he holds an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain.
His interests include the modernist crisis in the early 20th century, dissensions within the French Catholic community between 1937 and 1947, and during the Algerian crisis. Publications also include biographies of the Jesuit François Varillon and of Cardinal Eugène Tisserand. Fouilloux has edited the private diaries of the theologian Yves Congar and of the Paris nunciature years of Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, and written a five-volume history of the Second Vatican Council. Fouilloux has also analysed the contribution of the Lyons Institut des Sources Chrétiennes to the editing of patristic texts.

Selected publications