Giovanni Battista Arnaldi

Giovanni Battista Arnaldi (born January 8, 1806 in Castellaro , † February 28, 1867 in Spoleto ) was an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Spoleto .

Life

He was the third child of Domenico and Caterina Arnaldi. After studying at the seminary in Genoa , he settled in Rome in 1828 and was ordained a priest on October 12 of the same year . He became a doctor of theology and doctor iuris utriusque doctorate and then had a number of offices in the Curia held.

On March 18, 1852 he was appointed titular bishop of Auzia and administrator of the diocese of Terni after the resignation of Bishop Vincenzo Tizzani . He was ordained bishop in Rome on May 2, 1852 by Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Giovanni Francesco Cometti Rossi and Bishop Thomas Olliffe . On March 7, 1853 he was appointed Archbishop of Spoleto. The second half of his nearly 14-year episcopate was characterized by confrontations with the authorities of the Kingdom of Italy in the Spoleto in 1860 by the Papal States had conquered. Because of his pastoral letter of 1863, in which he condemned the new order with the strongest words and which the government classified as a call to overthrow, he was even imprisoned in the fortress of Spoleto.

Works

Orazione funebre in lode di Donna Guendalina Talbot principessa Borghese. Rome 1841.
Lettera pastorale di monsignor Gio. Battista Arnaldi arcivescovo di Spoleto diretta al clero e popolo della sua archidiocesi in occasione dell'indulto per la quaresima del 1863. Assisi 1863 ( Lenten Shepherd's letter 1863; digitized version ).

Nuove glorie di Nostra Signora Auxilium christianorum. Assisi 1865.

literature

Philippe Bountry: Prélats Référendaires et officers de curie en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) . 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. 42–43 (French, online edition [accessed March 25, 2018]).

Web links

Entry on Giovanni Battista Arnaldi on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 25, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ Lenten pastor's letter 1863
↑ Maria Lupi, Treccani 2011: “ In definiva, benché non tutti i vescovi assumessero toni so duri contro il governo come quelli dell'arcivescovo di Spoleto Arnaldi, incarcerato nel 1863 per aver scritto una lettera pastoraleata eversiva, si stava creando consider più profondo tra il nuovo ordine di cose e la gerarchia ecclesiastica, also con quella che cercava un modus vivendi equilibrato e pacifico, dedicandosi soltanto alla missione religiosa. ”-“ In the end, even if not all bishops were against the government as harshly as that of the Archbishop of Spoleto Arnaldi, who was arrested in 1863 for writing a pastoral letter that was judged to be subversive, an ever deeper gap formed between the new order of things and the ecclesiastical hierarchy, also for that part that was looking for a balanced and peaceful modus vivendi and was solely dedicated to the religious task. "

predecessor	Office	successor
Giovanni Sabbioni	Archbishop of Spoleto 1853–1867	Domenico Cavallini Spadoni

personal data
SURNAME	Arnaldi, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Spoleto
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castellaro
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1867
Place of death	Spoleto

[1] Lenten pastor's letter 1863

[2] Maria Lupi, Treccani 2011: “ In definiva, benché non tutti i vescovi assumessero toni so duri contro il governo come quelli dell'arcivescovo di Spoleto Arnaldi, incarcerato nel 1863 per aver scritto una lettera pastoraleata eversiva, si stava creando consider più profondo tra il nuovo ordine di cose e la gerarchia ecclesiastica, also con quella che cercava un modus vivendi equilibrato e pacifico, dedicandosi soltanto alla missione religiosa. ”-“ In the end, even if not all bishops were against the government as harshly as that of the Archbishop of Spoleto Arnaldi, who was arrested in 1863 for writing a pastoral letter that was judged to be subversive, an ever deeper gap formed between the new order of things and the ecclesiastical hierarchy, also for that part that was looking for a balanced and peaceful modus vivendi and was solely dedicated to the religious task. "