Bernardino Piñera Carvallo

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Manuel José Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (born September 22, 1915 in Paris , † June 21, 2020 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of La Serena .

Life

Bernardino Piñera was born in Paris and attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly . In 1932 the family returned to Chile and Bernardino Piñera first studied medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and later specialized in physiology in the USA . Back in Chile he was employed at the Catholic University of Chile in 1941, but shortly afterwards entered the seminary in Santiago de Chile and studied philosophy and theology. On April 5, 1947, José María Cardinal Caro Rodríguez donated him to priestly ordination for the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile . He was an advisor to the Catholic Action , where he worked with Father Alberto Hurtado , among others , and a spiritual adviser to the national association of female youth. Between 1950 and 1953 he was Vice Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on February 11, 1958 auxiliary bishop in Talca and titular bishop of Prusias ad Hypium . The Bishop of Talca, Manuel Larraín Errázuriz , ordained him episcopal on April 27 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Pio Alberto Fariña Fariña , Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile, and Emilio Tagle Covarrubias , Archbishop of Santiago de Chile.

Pope John XXIII appointed him on December 10, 1960 Bishop of Temuco . The inauguration took place on January 7th of the next year. From 1962 to 1965 he participated as a council father in all four session periods of the Second Vatican Council and subsequently in the II. And III. Latin American Bishops' Conference ( CELAM ) in Medellín in 1968 and in Puebla in 1979.

He resigned as Bishop of Temuco on December 28, 1977 to become General Secretary of the Chilean Bishops' Conference . On July 1, 1983, he was appointed Archbishop of La Serena by Pope John Paul II . From 1983 to 1988 he was President of the Chilean Bishops' Conference. He held several offices within the Latin American Bishops' Council CELAM. On September 29, 1990, Pope John Paul II accepted Bernardino Piñera's age-related resignation; he retired to the Franciscan Alameda monastery. He published several works and essays, including the well-known books "El Reencantamiento de la Vida" and "La Oferta de la Fe". He was involved in the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

In August 2019 it became known that the Vatican had started preliminary investigations against Piñera Carvallo into a case of sexual abuse of a minor around 50 years ago. In a statement, he denied the allegations made against him.

Bernardino Piñera died on June 21, 2020 in Santiago de Chile at the age of 104. According to the family, he had died of COVID-19 . Since the death of Peter Leo Gerety on September 20, 2016, he has been the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world. Since the death of Cardinal José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez on September 3, 2019, he was also the longest-serving Catholic bishop by date of ordination. He was an uncle of the incumbent Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and the former Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick .

Web links

Commons : Bernardino Piñera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mons. Bernardino Piñera cumple hoy 100 años de vida , iglesia.cl (Spanish)
  2. ↑ See only the information on kirche-und-leben.de
  3. ^ "A living relic": The oldest bishop in the world turns 104
  4. ^ "Fallce el Arzobispo emérito Bernardino Piñera, el obispo más anciano del mundo" on aciprensa.com of June 21, 2020 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Herman Chadwick confirmó que Bernardino Piñera murió por Covid y desestimó críticas por el funeral , cooperativa.cl , accessed on June 23, 2020
  6. ↑ Obituary on the website of the Chilean Bishops' Conference (Spanish)
  7. ↑ The oldest bishop in the world is dead , kathisch.de , accessed on September 23, 2016
  8. ↑ A los 104 años muere Bernardino Piñera, exarzobispo emérito de La Serena on latercera.com of June 21, 2020 (Spanish)
predecessor Office successor
Alejandro Menchaca Lira Bishop of Temuco
1960–1977 		Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia
José Manuel Santos Ascarza OCD President of the Chilean Bishops' Conference
1983–1988 		Carlos González Cruchaga
Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín Archbishop of La Serena
1983–1990 		Francisco José Cox Huneeus
personal data
SURNAME Piñera Carvallo, Bernardino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piñera Carvallo, Manuel José Bernardino; Piñera, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of La Serena
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2020
Place of death Santiago de Chile