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Benno Walter Cardinal Gut OSB (born April 1, 1897 in Reiden , Switzerland ; † December 8, 1970 in Rome ) was Abbot Primate of the Benedictines and later a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Born Walter Gut, he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln on May 1, 1918 , where he took the religious name Benno. He studied at the University of Basel , at the Conservatory of the Benedictines Sant'Anselmo and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome . After he had made his perpetual profession on January 6, 1918 , he received the sacrament of ordination on July 10, 1921 in Rome . Further studies followed until 1923. From 1923 Gut worked in the pastoral care of his abbey before he returned to Sant'Anselmo as a lecturer from 1930 to 1939 . In 1939 he returned to Einsiedeln Abbey and worked at the collegiate school there as a lecturer and prefect . On April 15, 1947, he was the convent of the Benedictine Maria Einsiedeln to Abbot chosen sworn in office on 5 May of the same year and the apostolic nuncio in Switzerland, Archbishop Filippo Bernardini consecrated.

The Abbots' Congress of the Benedictine Confederation elected him on November 24, 1959 as Abbot Primate ; as such he moved again to Sant'Anselmo in Rome. Pope Paul VI appointed him on June 10, 1967 titular Archbishop of Thuccabora . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Dean Eugène Tisserant Cardinal on 18 June 1967 in the Abbey of Einsiedeln. Co- consecrators were the bishops Joseph Hasler and Johannes Vonderach . Shortly afterwards, on June 26th of the same year, the Pope accepted him into the College of Cardinals as cardinal deacon with the title diaconia of San Giorgio in Velabro, and on June 29, 1967 appointed him cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Rites . For this reason he renounced his position as abbot primate of the Benedictines on September 8, 1967. On May 7, 1969, he took over the leadership of the Congregation for the Sacraments as Cardinal Prefect .

After his death in 1970 he was buried in the Abbey of Einsiedeln Monastery.

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predecessor Office successor
Bernard Kälin Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation
1959–1967 		Rembert Weakland
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Good, Benno Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss religious, Benedictine, abbot primate, curia cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Reiden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1970
Place of death Rome