Giovanni Battista Franzoni

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Giovanni Battista Franzoni OSB (as Mario Franzoni ; born November 8, 1928 in Varna , Bulgaria ; † July 13, 2017 in Canneto in Canneto in Sabina , Province of Rieti ) was Abbot of Saint Paul Outside the Walls .

Life

Giovanni Battista Franzoni studied from 1947 to 1950 at the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome and joined the Benedictine order . After studying theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo , he was ordained a priest on January 25, 1955 . He was initially a teacher of history and philosophy at the school of the Benedictine Abbey in Farfa .

He was elected Abbot of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on March 3, 1964 , succeeding Cesario D'Amato (Abbot 1955–1964). This election was confirmed on March 11 of the same year. He participated in the last two sessions of the Second Vatican Council and at the age of 36 was the youngest of the Italian representatives at Vatican II. With Pope Paul VI. he discussed the rights of the poor made people in the third world and the encyclical Populorum Progressio . In 1968 he was one of the founders of the Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum .

Franzoni was well known in Italy in the 1970s, particularly because of its proximity to the Italian Communist Party (KPI) . He resigned from his office as abbot in 1973, left the order and resigned from the ministry after a phase as a suspended priest . Pope Paul VI laated him on August 4, 1976, which is why he was able to marry Yukiko Ueno, an atheist Japanese journalist and educator, in 1990.

He was committed to the possibility of legal divorce and legal abortion . He wrote over 30 books and numerous essays on social issues, particularly those related to capitalism .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ È morto Giovanni Franzoni, uno dei più famosi teologi italiani di sinistra: aveva 88 anni
  2. Muore dom Franzoni, l'ex abate delle Comunità di base che votava Pci , Repubblica , accessed on July 14, 2017
  3. ^ A b Thomas Seiterich: From the council to the base . In: Publik-Forum , Volume 2017, No. 22 from November 24, 2017.

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predecessor Office successor
Cesario D'Amato OSB Abbot of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
1964–1973
Giuseppe Nardin OSB