Angelo Bagnasco

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Angelo Bagnasco (right) and the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (2010)
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Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco (born January 14, 1943 in Pontevico , Province of Brescia ) is an Italian clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Genoa and since 2016 Chairman of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences . Before that he was also chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference from 2007 to 2017

Life

Angelo Bagnasco was born in 1943 in Pontevico, the second child of factory worker Alfredo Bagnasco and his wife Rosa. After the family moved to Genoa , he attended high school and classical lyceum there . He then attended the Archbishop's Seminary in Genoa and received the sacrament of ordination through Giuseppe Cardinal Siri on June 29, 1966 in the Cathedral of St. Lawrence in Genoa . He then was parish vicar of the parish of San Pietro e Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù in Genoa until 1985 . In the meantime he completed his diploma in philosophy at the University of Genoa and in 1980 became a lecturer in metaphysics and contemporary atheism at the Genoese site of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy . He held this teaching position until 1998. In addition, he was diocesan assistant at the Federation of Catholic Italian Universities ( Federazione Universitari Cattolici Italiani ) from 1980 to 1995 . From 1985 to 1996 he was head of the catechetical office of the Archdiocese of Genoa and Liguria as well as regional representative for school pastoral care and from 1986 to 1994 president and lecturer at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose di Genova . On April 27, 1987, Pope John Paul II awarded him the title of Chaplain to His Holiness . From 1990 to 1996 Bagnasco was director of the Education Office of the Archdiocese of Genoa, which coordinates the training and further education of religious teachers, and from 1993 to 1996 director of the diocesan Apostolato Liturgico .

In 1995 he also became Episcopal Vicar and Spiritual of the Archbishop's Seminary in Genoa. John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Pesaro on January 3, 1998 . The Archbishop of Genovese, Dionigi Tettamanzi, who was appointed cardinal shortly thereafter, donated him his episcopal ordination on February 7, 1998; Co- consecrators were Gaetano Michetti , Bishop Emeritus of Pesaro, and Giacomo Barabino , Bishop of Ventimiglia-Sanremo . With the elevation of the diocese of Pesaro to an archbishopric in the course of the restructuring of the Italian dioceses, Bagnasco was raised to their first archbishop on March 11, 2000. On June 20, 2003, John Paul II appointed him military archbishop of Italy . Pope Benedict XVI appointed Angelo Bagnasco on August 29, 2006 to succeed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as Archbishop of Genoa, after he took over the post of Cardinal Secretary of State at the Roman Curia with effect from September 15 of the same year . Bagnasco's official inauguration was shortly thereafter on September 24, 2006.

On March 7, 2007 Benedict XVI appointed him. as successor to Camillo Cardinal Ruini as chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference . He held this office until May 24, 2017.

On November 24, 2007, Benedict XVI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Gran Madre di Dio in the college of cardinals .

On October 8, 2016, he was elected President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences CCEE , of which he had previously been Vice-President since 2011. His term of office runs until 2021.

For the victims and their families killed in the collapse of the Polcevera Viaduct (Ponte Morandi), Cardinal Bagnasco gave the requiem and the funeral sermon in Genoa on August 19, 2018 in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte .

On May 8, 2020, Pope Francis accepted Angelo Bagnasco's resignation due to reasons of age.

Angelo Bagnasco is Honorary and Devotion Grand Cross Bailli of the Order of Malta and Grand Cross Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Positions

abortion

Bagnasco strictly rejects abortion, especially through mifepristone .

Right to work

Bagnasco affirmed everyone's right to work. He also believes that the flexibility of the workforce should be limited in favor of employers.

Criticism of the negative attitude towards the recognition of same-sex couples

In 2007, Bagnasco came under criticism from some liberal media, from intellectuals ( Dario Fo , Dacia Maraini and others) as well as from politicians of the center-left government at the time, because he was planning a law in Italy to recognize civil partnerships of same-sex couples with the permission to incest and Compared to pedophilia . An anonymous letter to him with a death threat and a swastika was condemned as an intolerable act by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi , who himself endorsed the proposed law. Archbishop Bagnasco, who has been under police protection since then, received another death threat on June 9, 2007. There is no more precise information about the sender of the threatening letters - an imprisoned terrorist of the Red Brigades was suspected to be related to it.

Silvio Berlusconi

Angelo Bagnasco, like Bishop Domenico Mogavero , publicly called on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign in July 2009 because of his lifestyle; he warned of "men who have drowned in a delirium of their own greatness, who leave behind the illusion of omnipotence and who twist moral values".

Memberships

Memberships in the Roman Curia

Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco is a member of the following congregations and commissions of the Roman Curia :

literature

Web links

Commons : Angelo Bagnasco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New CCEE Presidency: Card. A. Bagnasco (President), Card. V. Nichols and Archbishop S. Gądecki (Vice-Presidents). CCEE, October 8, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo metropolita di Genova (Italia) e nomina del nuovo Arcivescovo metropolita. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , August 5, 2020, accessed August 5, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Position on abortion ( memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)
  4. ↑ kath.net from May 1, 2007: "Pistol ball and swastika"
  5. ↑ Corriere della sera of April 1, 2007: "Bagnasco: nuova bufera sui dico"
  6. ↑ news24.com of April 2, 2007: "Storm over bishop's gay remarks" ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ John N. Allen: Death threats against Italian archbishop follow comments on same-sex unions ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ christiantoday.com of June 12, 2007: "Bishop receives death threats for opposing gay"
  9. ↑ cwnews.com of June 13, 2007: "Italian terrorist probed in death threats against archbishop"
  10. ↑ "senior Roman Catholic bishop calls for Silvio Berlusconi to resign" , Times Online , June 26th 2009
predecessor Office successor
Giuseppe Mani Military Archbishop of Italy
2003-2006 		Vincenzo Pelvi
Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone SDB Archbishop of Genoa
2006–2020 		Marco Tasca OFMCap
Camillo Cardinal Ruini Chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference
2007–2017 		Gualtiero Cardinal Bassetti
personal data
SURNAME Bagnasco, Angelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bagnasco, Cardinal Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Genoa
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontevico , Province of Brescia , Italy