Adolfo Tortolo

Adolfo Servando Tortolo (born November 10, 1911 in Ciudad de Nueve de Julio in the province of Buenos Aires , † February 5, 1998 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine bishop.

Life

Tortolo attended St. Joseph's Seminary in La Plata and in 1925 transferred to the seminary in La Plata. He was ordained a priest on December 21, 1934 in the church of the La Plata seminary .

On June 9, 1956, he was by Pope Pius XII. Appointed titular bishop of Caeciri and auxiliary bishop in Paraná . The episcopal ordination donated him his former rector Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland , archbishop of Parana, the same year on August 12. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Mercedes , Anunciado Serafini , and the Archbishop of La Plata , Antonio José Plaza .

Pope John XXIII appointed him Bishop of Catamarca on February 11, 1960 . The inauguration took place on April 30 of the same year. On September 6, 1962 he was appointed Archbishop of Paraná and on December 29 of the same year he was introduced to the office.

Tortolo participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a council father.

In 1970 he was elected President of the Argentine Bishops' Conference (CEA). In disputes within the Argentine episcopate over the actions of the Bishop of La Rioja and liberation theologian Enrique Angelelli against the Menem family in 1973, Tortolo and the Apostolic Nuncio , Archbishop Lino Zanini , opposed Angelelli. In doing so, he assessed the actions of Angelelli, who was later killed, differently than the Vatican visitators Pedro Arrupe and Archbishop Vicente Faustino Zazpe .

On July 7, 1975, he was also appointed military bishop of Argentina . Tortolo was friends with Colonel Juan Francisco Guevara and General Eduardo Señorans.

As Emilio Mignone reports, in March 1976, immediately before the military coup, there was a meeting with Tortolo, Raúl Francisco Primatesta , Juan Carlos Aramburu, and Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Massera . Tortolo is said to have learned of the planned coup.

Tortolo's secretary was Emilio T. Grasselli. Father Federico Richards CP (1921–1999), editor of the English-language Southern Cross for the Irish community, in which, in contrast to the Spanish-language press, the disappeared (including his niece Gloria Keogh) were reported, recalled that Tortolo was one List of 2,100 people who had disappeared withheld.

In 1976 Tortolo gave up the office of President of the Bishops' Conference to Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta . On March 30, 1982, he resigned from the military ordinariate. Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on April 1, 1986.

Web links

• Entry on Adolfo Tortolo on catholic-hierarchy.org
• DiFilm - Homilia arzobispo Tortolo en catedral Bs. As. (1976) on YouTube
• DiFilm - Massera en misa oficiada por monseñor Tortolo (1980) on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horacio Verbitsky: El eslabón perdido . In: Página / 12 , April 9, 2006. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
2. ^ MA Burdick: For God and the Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina ; P. 151
3. ↑ http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/1378_1.pdf
4. ↑ Rita Arditt: Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the ... ; s 27
5. ^ The Vicar That Preached Terror: Monsignor Adolfo Servando Tortolo and The Dictatorship. Vatican Crimes, April 10, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013 .  
6. ↑ http://miligras.blogspot.de/ ( Memento from April 11, 2013 on WebCite )
7. ↑ Uki Goñi : The Silence of the Bishops - Priest scores Church's role in Argentina's dirty Wars. Pacific News Service, July 14, 1995, archived from the original on March 13, 2012 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland	Archbishop of Paraná 1962–1986	Estanislao Esteban Karlic
Carlos Francisco Hanlon CP	Bishop of Catamarca 1960–1962	Alfonso Pedro Torres Farías OP
Antonio Cardinal Caggiano	President of the Bishops' Conference of Argentina 1970–1976	Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta
Antonio Cardinal Caggiano	Military Bishop of Argentina 1975–1982	Eduardo Vicente Mirás