Giovanni Battista Guidi

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Giovanni Battista Guidi; Photo around 1900

Giovanni Battista Guidi (born April 26, 1852 in Collepardo , † July 22, 1904 in Manila ) was an Italian clergyman and diplomat of the Holy See .

Life

Giovanni Battista Guidi was the son of Matilde Liverani and Sebastiano Guidi. He studied at the seminary of Alatri, later at the Pontifical Gregorian University with Angelo Secchi . In 1871 he completed his studies in philosophy and was admitted to the Pontificio Seminario Pio, which is located in the Palazzo di Sant'Apollinare. From 1872 to 1874 he studied at the University of Innsbruck , with Jesuits, theology, Hebrew, Syriac , Chaldean and Arabic . He received his doctorate in philosophy, theology , civil and canon law. He became a language teacher at the College of the Augustinians of Margaretha of Valois in Paris . Later he also learned English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

In 1875 he was ordained a priest in Vienna by Archbishop Lodovico Jacobini , the apostolic nuncio , and held his first mass on July 4, 1875 in the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration.

He entered the foreign service of the State Secretariat of the Holy See and the Congregation for Foreign Affairs. From November 1879 to 1883 he was secretary to the Nuncio Angelo Bianchi at the wedding of Maria Christina of Austria to Alfonso XII. from Spain. On May 26, 1883 he was secretary to Vincenzo Vannutelli in Saint Petersburg at the accession to the throne of Alexander III. Later he was secretary in Lisbon. In June 1887 he became Uditore of the Nunciature in Munich . Since 1889 was an honorary member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck .

From 1890 to 1892 he was State Secretary of Leo XIII.

Girolamo Maria Gotti took him to São Paulo in 1892 as an Uditore. Was after Gotti made a cardinal, and went to Rome, Guidi was until the arrival of José Macchi d'affaires of the Inter Nunciature in Brazil. In 1897 he was Chargé d'affaires in Quito for a few months , led unsuccessful negotiations with the President of Parliament Manuel B. Cueva, and returned to Rome.

On September 6, 1902, he was appointed titular archbishop of Stauropolis . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Mariano Rampolla on 21 September of the same year. Co-consecrators were the former bishop of Nepi and Sutri , Giuseppe Maria Costantini , and archbishop Pietro Gasparri . Pope Leo XIII. sent him as apostolic delegate with the bull "Quae mare Sinico" to the schism of the Independent Philippine Church . Guidi arrived in Manila in November 1902 and on December 8, 1902 published the bull "Quae mare Sinico". He took office in Manila when the Philippine-American War was taking place there. The occupation authorities had sentenced the Catholic Father Leonardo Depusoy from Taytay, Morong Rizal, to death because he had not reported to the occupation forces that he had heard the confessions of delinquents who were executed by the forces of the Republic of the Philippines.

Guidi negotiated with William Howard Taft , who was governor of the Philippines from July 4, 1901 to February 1, 1904 , USD 7.2 million in compensation in kind for the monastic lands occupied by the United States. Guidi publicly stated that there was no fear that religious would come to cities where they would not be welcome. Guidi was buried in the Capilla de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in the Cathedral of Manila.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.collepardo.it/storia/guidi.htm
  2. ↑ Lucio Gutiérrez, Historia de la Iglesia en Filipinas (1565-1900) , Editorial MAPFRE, 1992 333 pp, p. 296
  3. ^ John N. Schumacher, Revolutionary Clergy: The Filipino Clergy and the Nationalist Movement , 1850-1903, p. 134
  4. ^ Arnold Janssen Letters to South America , 1993 - 4 pp 394
  5. ↑ http://www.manilacathedral.org/History/history_7.htm
personal data
SURNAME Guidi, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and diplomat of the Holy See
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Collepardo
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1904
Place of death Manila