Giovanni Fraschina

Giovanni Fraschina (born September 7, 1750 (Giacomo) in Bosco Luganese , † March 26, 1837 in Lugano ) was a Swiss Capuchin , Capuchin general and Archbishop of Corinth .

Life

He was the son of Giovanni Maria Antonio Fraschina from Bosco Luganese and Maria Innocente Folia. He was a student at the College of Somaskers in Lugano , then he studied philosophy at the Monza monastery and theology in Milan . As Fra Giovanni dal Bosco he entered the Capuchin order . After 1767 he was lecturer for the schools of the Milanese Capuchin Province and then provincial definitor.

Pope Pius VI appointed him apostolic preacher in 1793, then he was called to Rome by Pius VII as a preacher and appointed examiner of the elected bishops. After 1804 he asked to be dismissed from his post as apostolic preacher in order to retire to the Lugano monastery. On March 26, 1804, he was named titular archbishop of Corinthus and immediately retired to Lugano after his episcopal ordination , which Cardinal Antonio Despuig y Dameto donated to him on April 2, 1804 with the assistance of Archbishops Camillo Campanelli and Benedetto Fenaja CM.

For over 30 years he actually worked as the Ticino bishop because the bishops of Como and Milan gave him authority over the parts of their dioceses in the canton of Ticino .

literature

• Enrico Poretti: Mons. Giovanni Fraschina cappuccino arcivescovo titolare di Corinto. Lugano 1937.
• Alfonso Codaghengo: Storia religiosa del Cantone Ticino. Volume 2, 1942, pp. 146-150.
• Philippe Bountry: VI - Chapelle pontificale . 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. 11, note 15 (French, online edition [accessed May 19, 2019]).
• Fabrizio Panzera: Giovanni Fraschina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2003. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .

Web links

• Entry on Giovanni Giacomo Antonio Gaetano Fraschina on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 19, 2019.