Ildephons Borgna

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Bishop Ildephons Borgna, oil portrait in the Quilon bishop's house
St. Sebastian, Quilon-Tuet; Residence and Church of the Holy Sepulcher of Bishop Borgna
Grave of Bishop Borgnas, St. Sebastian, Quilon-Tuet

Ildephons Borgna , full name Ildephonso di San Giovanni Battista Borgna OCD , secular name Giovanni Battista Borgna (born May 25, 1817 in Turin , Italy , † December 9, 1894 in Quilon (Kollam) , Kerala ) was a Catholic titular archbishop and apostolic vicar in India.

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Ildephons Borgna, whose real name was Giovanni Battista Borgna, came from Turin and joined the Order of the Discalced Carmelites in 1838 , where he received the religious name Ildephonso di San Giovanni Battista . He was ordained a priest and was sent on a mission to India.

On May 24, 1871, Pope Pius IX appointed him . Titular Bishop of Amyzon and Vicar Apostolic of Quilon in what is now Kerala . He received his episcopal ordination on August 20 of that year in Verapoly by the Vicar Apostolic Giovanni Battista Berardi .

Under Bishop Borgna, the Apostolic Vicariate on the Malabar Coast was further consolidated and expanded. His predecessor, Marie Ephrem Garrelon OCD, who had been transferred to Mangalore , had induced the English convert and nun Sophie Leeves to found a Carmelite order of sisters specially tailored to the Indian mission area according to his plans, which was to combine the spirituality of the Carmelites with the practical work of teaching. This order was created in 1868 in Bayonne in France, a congregation of third-order sisters, so-called lay Carmelites of the Theresian Carmel . In 1870 they opened their first Indian convent in Mangalore. Bishop Borgna also asked for such sisters to be sent to his Vicariate Quilon, whereupon the order also settled there. On May 19, 1875, three of these sisters opened a convent with an attached English Primary School at St. Sebastian's Church in Quilon-Tuet, which was then also the residence of the Vicar Apostolic.

In 1883, Bishop Borgna withdrew from the leadership of the Vicariate Apostolic Quilon, but continued to live in the city as an emeritus . Pope Leo XIII. distinguished him on December 14, 1886, in recognition of his many years of service with the elevation to titular archbishop of Marcianopolis . Archbishop Ildephons Borgna died in Quilon in 1894 and was buried in the Church of St. Sebastian zu Quilon-Tuet.

literature

  • Robert Streit, Johannes Dindinger: Bibliotheca missionum. Volume 8. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1951, p. 380.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source on dates of birth
  2. ↑ Source on entering the order
  3. ↑ Source on episcopal ordination
  4. ↑ On the founding of the Lay Carmelite Sisters by Sister Maria Veronica and Bishop Garrelon
  5. ↑ Source on withdrawal from the leadership of the vicariate in 1883
  6. ^ Source, Elevation to Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis
  7. ↑ Source on the date of the archbishopric
personal data
SURNAME Borgna, Ildephons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ildephonso di San Giovanni Battista Borgna OCD (religious name); Giovanni Battista Borgna (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian bishop in India, Carmelite
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1894
Place of death Kollam