Eduardo Francisco Pironio

Eduardo Cardinal Pironio

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Life

Eduardo Francisco Pironio grew up in a large family with twenty-one siblings. After finishing school he studied at the seminary of San José, La Plata , and in Rome, the subjects of Catholic theology and philosophy . He received the sacrament of ordination on December 5, 1943 and then worked for a year in the parish pastoral care. In 1944 he became a lecturer at the Mercedes seminar, and in 1959 he took over the administrative management of the Mercedes diocese as vicar general . Only a year later he received the appointment to the rain of the Archbishop's Seminary Villa Devoto in Buenos Aires and as professor of Catholic theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Buenos Aires . In 1962 and 1963, he took part in the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a council theologian .

On March 24, 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed him . as titular bishop of Caeciri and auxiliary bishop in La Plata . He was ordained episcopal by the Archbishop of La Plata, Antonio José Plaza , on May 31, 1964. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Nueve de Julio , Antonio Quarracino , and the Bishop of Mercedes , Luis Juan Tomé .

He took part in the third and fourth session of the Second Vatican Council as a council father.

Pironio became Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Avellaneda in 1967 , which he remained until Antonio Quarracino's inauguration in October 1968. From 1967 to 1972 Eduardo Francisco Pironio was General Secretary of the Latin American Bishops' Conference CELAM .

On April 19, 1972, he was appointed Bishop of Mar del Plata . The inauguration took place on May 26th of the same year.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on September 20, 1975 as Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Orders and Secular Institutes in Rome. On May 24, 1976, the Pope accepted him as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Santi Cosma e Damiano in the college of cardinals and appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for Religious Orders and Secular Institutes, which he headed until 1984. Cardinal Pironio attended the August Conclave and the October 1978 Conclave . During and afterwards he was considered papabile . Cardinal Pironio spoke out against the elevation of Opus Dei to a personal prelature in 1982 . On April 8, 1984, Pope John Paul II appointed him President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity , and in 1985 President of the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Care of People in Health Care . In 1987 Pironio was raised to cardinal priest pro hac vice while retaining his title diaconia and in 1995 was appointed cardinal bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto .

On August 20, 1996, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation from his offices in the Roman Curia .

Eduardo Francisco Pironio died of a bone tumor on February 5, 1998 and was buried in the Basilica of Luján . The diocesan beatification process began in 2006.

Eduardo Pironio , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/1998 from April 20, 1998, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

^ Giancarlo Zizola : The successor , Patmos-Verlag Düsseldorf 1997, pp. 159-162
^ Zizola, p. 160

predecessor	Office	successor
Enrique Rau	Bishop of Mar del Plata 1972–1975	Rómulo García
Arturo Cardinal Tabera Araoz CMF	Prefect of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes 1975–1984	Jean Jérôme Cardinal Hamer OP
Opilio Cardinal Rossi	President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity 1984–1996	James Francis Cardinal Stafford
Angelo Cardinal Rossi	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto 1995–1998	Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves OP

personal data
SURNAME	Pironio, Eduardo Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pironio, Eduardo Francisco Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nueve de Julio , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 1998
Place of death	Vatican