Jean Marcel Honoré
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Jean Marcel Honoré (born August 13, 1920 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès; pronunciation (help·info)) is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a former Archbishop of Tours.

He was ordained on June 29, 1943 after studying at the seminary in Rennes, and from 1958 to 1964 was secretary general of the National Commission for Religious Education and director of the National Centre of Religious Teaching. He was made Bishop of Évreux in 1972 and Archbishop of Tours in 1981. Honoré is known as a specialist in the works of Cardinal Newman.

Honoré resigned as Archbishop of Tours in 1997 at the age of 75. He was made cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

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