Giuseppe Betori

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Archbishop Giuseppe Betori (right) with the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano , September 2008
Coat of arms of Archbishop Cardinal Giuseppe Betori

Giuseppe Cardinal Betori (born February 25, 1947 in Foligno , Province of Perugia , Italy ) is Archbishop of Florence .

Life

Giuseppe Betori, son of a teacher, received on 26 September 1970, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University , a licentiate in the subject Catholic Theology and was at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in specialist biblical criticism doctorate . On October 30, 1991, Pope John Paul II awarded him the honorary title of Chaplain to His Holiness ( Monsignor ). On September 26, 1996, Betori became Undersecretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference, before that he was head of its Catechism Office . Since December 1997 he has been preparing for the XV. Participates in World Youth Day in Rome , which took place in August 2000.

On April 5, 2001, he was elected General Secretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference and John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Falerone . He received his episcopal ordination on May 6, 2001, Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in the Cathedral of Foligno; Co- consecrators were Arduino Bertoldo , Bishop of Foligno , Ennio Antonelli , Archbishop of Florence and later Cardinal , Antonio Buoncristiani , Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina , and Giovanni Benedetti , Bishop Emeritus of Foligno. On April 6, 2006, Betori was confirmed as General Secretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference for another five years. However, he only held this office until October 2008.

On September 8th, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Florence. The inauguration took place on October 26, 2008. On February 10, 2009 he also became chairman of the regional bishops' conference of Tuscany .

On the evening of November 4, 2011, Betori's secretary, the 41-year-old Paolo Brogi, was gunned down by an unknown person in front of the bishopric in Florence and seriously injured. Brogi had not complied with the perpetrator's request to be admitted to Betori. The police arrested six suspects. Paolo Padoin , the Prefect of Florence, ordered increased police protection for Bishop Betori. In December of the same year he became a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture .

In the solemn consistory of February 18, 2012, Benedict XVI took him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marcello in the college of cardinals .

Cardinal Betori took after the resignation of Benedict XVI. the conclave in 2013 in part, in which Pope Francis has been selected.

In 2014 Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and a member of the Congregation for the Clergy . and on July 1, 2017 a member of the Congregation for the Processes of Beatification and Canonization .

Giuseppe Betori is a member of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Memberships in the Curia

Betori is a member of the following organizations of the Roman Curia :

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Betori  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 1996 , Città del Vaticano 1996, p. 2069.
  2. ^ Nomina del Segretario Generale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 5, 2001, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  3. ^ Conferma del Segretario Generale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 6, 2006, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  4. ^ Nomina dell'Arcivescovo di Firenze (Italia). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, September 8, 2008, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Florence: Unknown shoots at the bishop's secretary. kathweb.at, November 5, 2011, accessed on January 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ nouns di Membri e nella conferme Congregation for the Clergy. In: Bolletino. Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, June 9, 2014, accessed June 10, 2014 (Italian).
  7. ^ Nomina di Membro della Congregazione della Cause dei Santi. In: Bolletino. Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, July 2, 2017, accessed July 2, 2017 (Italian).
  8. ^ Nomina di Membri del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, December 10, 2011, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  9. ^ A b Nomina di Cardinali Membri dei Dicasteri e degli Organismi della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 21, 2012, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  10. ^ Nomina di Membro del Pontificio Consiglio per i Laici. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 17, 2014, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  11. ↑ nouns di Membri e nella conferme Congregation for the Clergy. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 9, 2014, accessed January 23, 2015 (Italian).
  12. ^ Nomina di Membro della Congregazione della Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, July 1, 2017, accessed July 1, 2017 (Italian).
predecessor Office successor
Ennio Cardinal Antonelli Archbishop of Florence
since 2008 		---
personal data
SURNAME Betori, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betori, Giuseppe Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Florence
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Foligno , Province of Perugia , Italy