Agostino Borromeo
Conte Agostino Giorgio Borromeo (born January 24, 1944 in Oreno near Milan ) is an Italian historian .
family
Agostino Borromeo comes from the Italian noble family of Borromeo . He is one of five children from the marriage of Conte Giovanni Ludovico Borromeo d Adda, dei marchesi di Pandino, dei conti di Arona (1911–2002) and Egidia dei Conti Cigala Fulgosi (1911–1990). In 1988 he married Beatriz Gonzalez de la Bastida Vargas in Mejorada del Campo, a town near Madrid; there are three children of the family.
His full name is "Conte Don Agostino Giorgio, Conte di Arona, Signore di Laveno, Camairago e Guardasone, Consignore della Pieve di Seveso, Signore di Omegna, Vegezzo, Vergante, Agrate e Palestro, Signore di Angera e Cannobio e Patrizio Milanese."
Life
Agostino Borromeo studied political science at La Sapienza University in Rome , and also completed a music degree in piano, organ and organ composition. He is Professor of Modern History and Contemporary History of the Church and of the Other Christian Denominations and Full Professor of Church History at La Sapienza University and is a permanent visiting professor at LUMSA for the History of Christianity and the Churches .
Borromeo has published more than 180 writings in his teaching and research focus on the religious history of southern Europe as well as in musicology and music criticism. He is a member of numerous scientific and cultural institutions. He is President of the Italian Institute for Iberian Studies (since 1991), President of the “Circolo di Roma” (since 1993), an international Catholic society founded in 1949, and since 2006 President of the “Associazione Don Giuseppe De Luca”, a research institute in the field the history of religion.
Agostino Borromeo has been a member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem since 1985 and is a Grand Cross Knight, later a Collar Knight of the Papal Order of Knights. From 1995 to 2002 he was a member of the Grand Magisterium in Rome and from 2002 to 2004 Chancellor of the Papal Order of Knights. In 2009, Agostino Borromeo was appointed by John Patrick Cardinal Foley to succeed Pier Luigi Parola as Governor General of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. On June 29, 2017, he passed his position on to Leonardo Visconti di Modrone . On July 27, 2017, he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien to succeed Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto in the office of Governor General.
honors and awards
- Grand Cross Knight of the Order of Constantine (1993/94)
- Bearer of the January Order
- Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History ( Real Academia de la Historia ) in Madrid (1988)
- Corresponding member of the Portuguese Academy of History (Academia Portuguesa da História) in Lisbon (1992)
- Member of the Italian Society for Musicology (Società Italiana di Musicologia) (2000)
- Member of the Pontifical Committee on History (2001)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Agostino Borromeo" , accessed on March 30, 2012
- ^ "Agostino Borromeo (H4)" , accessed on March 30, 2012
- ↑ a b c "Agostino Borromeo" (PDF; 227 kB), OESSH, Newsletter No. XIV, March 2009
- ↑ a b c "Il Conte Agostino Borromeo nominato Governatore Generale del OESSG" ( Memento of March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), constantinianorder.org, January 5, 2009
- ↑ Le futur Gouverneur Général prendra ses fonctions le 29 juin on oessh.va , accessed on June 20, 2017
- ↑ New Appointments by the Grand Master , on www.oessh.va , accessed on August 21, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borromeo, Agostino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borromeo, Agostino Giorgio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oreno near Milan |