Jean Vernette (26 February 1929, Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales - 16 September 2002) was a French priest of the diocese of Montauban.

[1] In 1973, Vernette was appointed national secretary of the French episcopate for the study of cults and new religious movements.

He asked if it represented the coming of the Anti-Christ, a Jewish conspiracy, or a project for a global government.

[4] Vernette spoke out against the 1996 report of the Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France and against the About-Picard law (in 2001), because of what he saw as a potential "anti-cult" attack on the Catholic Church itself.

[5] In 2000, he was auditioned by the French Senate about the opportuneness of a law strengthening the prevention and repression of cults.