Antonio Maria Fanìa

Antonio Maria Fanìa OFMObs (born February 5, 1804 in Rignano Garganico , † January 23, 1880 in Rome ) was an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop of Potenza and Marsico Nuovo .

Life

In 1823 he joined the Order of the Franciscan Observants. After studying in Bologna he became lecturer in philosophy and theology in his order and was ordained a priest on May 3, 1827 . Afterwards he was lecturer of philosophy at the convents in Ferrara and then in Lucera. Provincial from 1835 to 1838, he became general secretary in 1839 and then general procurator of his religious community in 1844 . He settled in Rome, where he became a member of the Academy for the Catholic Religion on April 6, 1845 .

Antonio Maria Fanìa entered the service of the Curia on April 28, 1846, as Consultor of the Index Congregation . Under the pontificate of Pius IX. he became consultor of the Holy Office and examiner of the bishops in theology. As a respected theologian, he helped to formulate the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary . He was also involved in the publication of the Specchio della disciplina (Rome 1851), which was previously awarded to St. Bonaventure .

On March 27, 1867 Antonio Maria Fanìa was appointed Bishop of Marsico Nuovo et Potenza in Basilicata. He was ordained bishop on April 7th of the same year by the Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina , Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Pietro de Villanova Castellacci and Bishop Giuseppe Maria Papardo del Parco .

After thirteen years as bishop, Antonio Maria Fanìa died in Rome in 1880.

Works

• Esempi ed ammaestramenti di eloquenza sacra. Rome 1832
• Orazione accademica per l'occorrenza della consacrazione della restaurata basilica di SM degli Angeli presso Assisi. Orvieto 1843
• Ragionamento intorno a cib che dicesi ed è vero e bello scrivere italiano, o Dello studio de 'classici scrittori per apprenderne le schiette forms. Orvieto 1844
• Ragionamento sul poema Il Salvatore del cavaliere Davide Bertolotti. Turin 1846
• Discorso pe 'comizi provinciali nella osservante provincia romana ... intorno alla disciplina regolare. Rome 1851
• San Paolo, o sia le forme e l'esempio della vita apostolica. Rome 1852
• Discorso su l'eloquenza sacra. Rome 1853
• Orazione funebre recitata ... il giorno 9 di febbraio 1855 nella chiesa de 'SS. Cosimo e Damiano in Roma per la morte del P. Reverendissimo Salvatore Guerri di Assisi, ministro generale del Terz'ordine di s. Francesco. Rome 1855
• L'Unità rende la Chiesa di Cristo veramente grande, in cui si ammira la grandezza mirabilissima alla quale, mercè alla fondazione ed operazione di Gesù Cristo, la potenza della verità conduce ad innalzar l'uomo consorzio. Discorso. Rome 1855
• Novenario e panegirici sulla Immacolata Concezione di Maria Vergine. Naples 1858
• Parallel dell'antico gnosticismo con gli errori moderni del Bartismo, Irvingismo, e mormonismo con un saggio di confutazione. Naples 1858
• Orazione delle lodi e utilità del dolore in Gesù. Genoa 1859

literature

• Philippe Bountry: Officiers subalternes de la curie et consulteurs des congrégations romaines en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) (notes brèves) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 230–231 (French, online edition [accessed February 10, 2019]).

Web links

• Entry on Antonio Maria Fanìa on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 10, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Michelangelo Pieramico	Bishop of Potenza and Marsico Nuovo 1867–1880	Luigi Carvelli