Giovanni Canestri

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Giovanni Cardinal Canestri in the bishop's robe
Coat of arms of Giovanni Cardinal Canestri

Giovanni Cardinal Canestri (born September 30, 1918 in Castelspina , Province of Alessandria , Italy , † April 29, 2015 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman and archbishop of Genoa .

Life

Giovanni Canestri studied at various universities in Rome the subjects philosophy , Catholic theology and jurisprudence . He was both canon law and in civil law doctorate and received on 12 April 1941 Monsignor Luigi Traglia in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, the sacrament of Holy Orders . During the war years he was a chaplain in slums on the outskirts of Rome. Then he was pastor and director of the Lateran . He then worked as a pastor and university teacher in various institutions in Rome. From 1959 to 1961 he was a spiritual director for the candidates for the priesthood of the Pontifical Roman Seminary .

In 1961 Pope John XXIII appointed him . the titular bishop of Tenedus and ordered him as auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Rome in support of the Cardinal Vicar of Rome ( Vicegerente di Roma ). The episcopal ordination received Giovanni Canestri by Luigi Cardinal Traglia, who had already ordained him a priest; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Ettore Cunial , Vice-Lord of Rome, and Bishop Petrus Canisius Jean van Lierde OSA , Papal Sacristan and Vicar General of His Holiness for the Vatican City . He was significantly involved in the organization and implementation of the Second Vatican Council, especially in the General Congregations on issues of ecumenism and religious freedom.

In 1971 he took over the leadership of the diocese of Tortona as bishop . In 1975 he became titular archbishop of Forum Clodii and Vicegerente di Roma . 1984 Pope named him John Paul II. To the Archbishop of Cagliari and 1987 as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Genoa-Bobbio, which after removal of the diocese part 1989 Bobbio was renamed back to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa.

On June 28, 1988 Canestri was admitted to the College of Cardinals as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Andrea della Valle . Giovanni Cardinal Canestri resigned the leadership of the Archdiocese of Genoa in 1995 for reasons of age. As a cardinal over the age of 80, he did not take part in the 2005 and 2013 conclaves . Cardinal Canestri died in 2015 at the age of 96 and was buried in the Cathedral of Genoa .

His brother Carlo Canestri (1920-2004) was also a Catholic clergyman. From 1983 to 1998 he was Vicar General of the Diocese of Alessandria .

literature

  • O. Alberti: Mons. Giovanni Canestri. In: La Pontificia Università Lateranense; profilo della sua storia, dei suoi maestri e dei suis discepoli. Rome 1963, p. 510.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giovanni Canestri: The world's second oldest cardinal dies at 96. Die Welt, April 30, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Second oldest cardinal (2) - Pope honors Cardinal Canestri as pastor of the poor. kathweb, April 30, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015 : "In the difficult years of the Second World War, Canestri worked as an assistant pastor on the outskirts of Rome, where suffering and poverty would have reigned."
  3. ^ Anna Maria Gastaldo: Mons. Carlo Canestri. Parrocchia Sant'Alessandro, accessed May 1, 2015 (Italian).
predecessor Office successor
Francesco Rossi (it) Bishop of Tortona
1971–1975 		Luigi Bongianino
Luigi Rovigatti (it) Vicegerente di Roma
1975–1984 		Ennio Appignanesi
Giuseppe Bonfigioli Archbishop of Cagliari
1984–1987 		Ottorino Pietro Alberti
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri Archbishop of Genoa
1987–1995 		Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi
personal data
SURNAME Canestri, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canestri, Giovanni Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Genoa and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelspina , Alessandria Province, Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2015
Place of death Rome