Álvaro del Portillo

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Álvaro del Portillo (born March 11, 1914 in Madrid , † March 23, 1994 in Rome ) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and for nineteen years as the successor of Josemaría Escrivá head of the prelature Opus Dei . He was beatified in 2014. Liturgical feast: May 12th , Bl. Alvaro.

Life

Álvaro del Portillo was born in Madrid as the third of eight children and grew up in a Christian family. In 1935 he joined Opus Dei. For 40 years he was Josemaría Escrivá's closest collaborator . The doctor of civil engineering , historian and canon lawyer was ordained a priest on June 25, 1944 and has been active as a clergyman ever since. In 1946 he moved to Rome with Escrivá. Here who appointed him Holy See for consultor of various papal congregations . Del Portillo took an active part in the Second Vatican Council in various functions . On September 15, 1975 he was elected the first successor to Josemaría Escrivá as head of Opus Dei. With the establishment of Opus Dei as a personal prelature on November 28, 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed him the first prelate of Opus Dei.

Bishop Álvaro del Portillo

On January 6, 1991, the Pope consecrated him bishop and appointed him titular bishop of Vita . His episcopal motto was: Regnare Christum volumus! (“We want Christ to rule!”). Bishop del Portillo died on the morning of March 23, 1994, a few hours after returning from a pilgrimage to Israel . On the day of his death, Pope John Paul II prayed in front of his body laid out, which today rests in the prelature church "Our Lady of Peace" in Viale Bruno Buozzi in Rome, where the grave of his predecessor was already.

His successor as prelate of Opus Dei was Bishop Javier Echevarría .

Beatification process

On March 5, 2004, the diocese of Rome opened its beatification process . On June 28, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI. ends the process phase to examine his life and work with a decree declaring the heroic degree of virtue of Alvaro del Portillo. In 2013, a miracle was recognized by Portillo's intercession. He was beatified on September 27, 2014 in Madrid by Cardinal Angelo Amato , Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Beatification.

Fonts

  • Believers and lay people in the Church . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1972, ISBN 978-3506769503 .
  • The celibacy of the priest . Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 1973, ISBN 978-3920007120 .
  • Descubrimiento y exploraciones en las costas de California (1532-1650) . Ediciones Rialp, Madrid 1982, ISBN 978-8432121890 .
  • Una vida para Dios: Reflections en torno a la figura de Monseñor Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer . Rialp, Madrid 1992, ISBN 978-8432128639 .
  • About the founder of Opus Dei . Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3925746710 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.opusdei.de/de-de/article/den-frieden-gottes-in-viele-herzen-haben/
  2. ↑ Vatican Information Service : DECREES OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS , No. 128, June 28, 2012; Retrieved July 11, 2012
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140311135246/http://www.kipa-apic.ch/k244735
  4. ↑ Madrid: 18 cardinals at the beatification of Portillo. In: religion.orf.at. September 27, 2014, accessed November 24, 2017 .

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predecessor Office successor
Josemaría Escrivá Head / Prelate of Opus Dei
1975–1994 		Javier Echevarría
personal data
SURNAME Portillo, Álvaro del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish theologian and prelate of Opus Dei
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1994
Place of death Rome , Italy