Ignatius Paoli

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Archbishop Ignatius Paoli around 1880

Ignatius Paoli CP actually Feliciano Paoli (born July 25, 1818 in Florence , † February 27, 1885 in Vienna ) was an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, founder of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph and first Archbishop of Bucharest .

Life

Early years

The young Paoli put 1846 his profession from where he the religious name adopted Ignatius, and received in 1849 after his theological studies in Rome , the ordination .

In 1857 he became Provincial of the Congregation of the Passionists of the Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic Church. In 1867 the Church College of St Angus was founded under his leadership , and he served as its first President and Spiritual Director. Paoli was also a professor of history and exegesis . At the end of 1868 he worked in Ardoyne and built the first church there, which was consecrated in June 1869 and named “St. Peter and Paul ”. He also took part in the 1st Vatican Council .

St. Joseph Cathedral in Bucharest around 1900

bishop

The priest, who belonged to the Order of the Passionists (CP) , was born on August 19, 1870 by Pope Pius IX. appointed Bishop of Nicopolis and Bulgaria and Apostolic Administrator (Vicar) of Wallachia . He was ordained bishop on August 28, 1870 in Rome by the Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina , Cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Pietro de Villanova Castellacci and Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi , Bishop of Osimo and Cingoli .

Ignatius Paoli became the founder of the construction of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph of Bucharest, which was completed at the end of 1883. The necessary funds for the construction of the house of God came from believers, respected personalities of the Romanian principalities as well as friends and foreign patrons known to the bishop.

In August 1871, Bishop Ignatius Paoli held a diocesan synod in Bucharest, and he also opened a seminar for the training of prospective priests.

The clergyman was also instrumental in ensuring that the designated King Carol I had the Gregorian calendar introduced for the Catholic Church of the Romanian countries on January 1, 1880, against the resistance of Orthodox, but also Catholic clerics in Romania . To this end, he mediated in lively correspondence between the Vatican and Mihail Kogălniceanu , who was acting on behalf of Carol .

On March 14, 1881, he crowned King Carol I of Romania.

Pope Leo XIII. signed the bull Praecipuum munus on April 27, 1883 , in which he declared the Apostolic Vicariate of Wallachia to be an archbishopric and raised Ignatius Paoli to the rank of archbishop. After the inauguration of the cathedral on Friday, February 15, 1884, the archbishop asked in numerous letters of appeal for further financial help for the establishment of further Catholic churches in Romania.

Seriously ill, Paoli gave up his post on February 2, 1885 and went to Vienna for treatment, where he died at the age of 66. His successor was Paolo Giuseppe Palma , also a passionist.

literature

  • I. Dumitriu-Snagov: Le Saint Siège et la Roumanie modern 1866-1914. Publishing house Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome 1989, ISBN 8876525971 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b I. Dumitriu-Snagov: Le Saint Siège et la Roumanie modern 1866-1914. Publishing house Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome 1989, p. 992
  2. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.passionists.info
  3. ↑ General Church Chronicle. Verlag JI Löschke, 1885, p. 243
  4. ↑ 120 de ani de la înființarea Arhiepiscopiei de București ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.catholica.ro
  5. ^ Joseph Lins:  Bucharest . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 3, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1908.
  6. ↑ Jakob Maximilien Stepischnegg: Pope Pius IX. and its time. Verlag Wilhelm Braumüller, 1879, p. 154
  7. ^ A b I. Dumitriu-Snagov: Le Saint Siège et la Roumanie modern 1866-1914. Publishing house Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome 1989, p. 330 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Paoli, Ignatius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paoli, Feliciano (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1885
Place of death Vienna