Javier Echevarría

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Javier Echevarría
Coat of arms of Javier Echevarría Rodríguez

Javier Echevarría Rodríguez (born June 14, 1932 in Madrid , Spain , † December 12, 2016 in Rome ) was the prelate of Opus Dei based in Rome.

Life

Echevarría was born in 1932 as the youngest of eight children and received an education from the Marianists in San Sebastian and Madrid. He began studying law at the University of Madrid, which he continued in Rome. Echevarría was in 1953 in Canon Law at the Angelicum in Rome and in 1955 in Civil Law at the Roman Lateran University doctorate. He had been a member of Opus Dei since his student days in Madrid (1948) and was ordained a priest on August 7, 1955 . From 1960 to 1964 he was professor of moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

In 1953 he became secretary of the later canonized Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá and remained so until his death in 1975. Since 1966 he was a member of the General Council of Opus Dei. When Álvaro del Portillo succeeded Escrivá at the head of Opus Dei in 1975, Echevarría became general secretary. With the establishment of Opus Dei as a personal prelature in 1982, he became its vicar general . From 1981 he was consultor of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and since 1995 of the Congregation for the Clergy .

Pope John Paul II appointed Echevarría on April 20, 1994 as prelate of Opus Dei and titular bishop of Cilibia . He donated to him personally on January 6, 1995 in St. Peter's Basilica , the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía .

Qua Amt was Echevarría Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross , the University of Navarra and the Universidad de Piura (Peru).

Fernando Ocáriz Braña was elected to succeed Echevarría as prelate of Opus Dei and was confirmed by Pope Francis on January 24, 2017 .

Fonts

  • Memoria del Beato Josemaría Escrivá, entrevista con Salvador Bernal . Rialp, Madrid 2000, ISBN 978-8432133053 .
  • Itinerarios de Vida Cristiana . Editorial Planeta, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 978-8408037859 .
  • Para servir a la Iglesia: homilías sobre el sacerdocio (1995-1999) . Ediciones Rialp, Madrid 2001, ISBN 978-8432133589 .
  • Eucaristía y vida cristiana . Rialp, Madrid 2005, ISBN 978-8432135576 .
  • Getsemaní . Planeta Testimonio, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 978-8408057857 .
  • Paths to God - Building a Christian Life in the 21st Century . Scepter Publishers, New York City 2010, ISBN 978-1594170850 .
  • Do this in memory of me - Holy Mass in the Christian life . Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3937626178 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Opus Dei boss Echevarría is dead
  2. ^ Nomina del Prelato della Prelatura Personale della Santa Croce e Opus Dei. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , January 24, 2017, accessed January 24, 2017 (Italian).
predecessor Office successor
Álvaro del Portillo Opus Dei cross.svg Prelate of Opus Dei
1994–2016 		Fernando Ocáriz Braña
personal data
SURNAME Echevarría, Javier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Echevarría Rodríguez, Javier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish theologian and prelate of Opus Dei
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2016
Place of death Rome