Juan María Leonardi Villasmil
Juan María Leonardi Villasmil (born February 11, 1947 in Boconó , † June 7, 2014 in Maracaibo ) was a Venezuelan clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Punto Fijo .
Life
Juan María Leonardi Villasmil studied economics from 1965 to 1969 at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas . In 1973 he entered the St. Joseph Seminary in Caracas and studied philosophy. In 1976 he moved to study theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . On August 4, 1979 he was ordained a priest . After working at the Seminario Santa Rosa de Lima in Caracas, he studied dogmatics and ecclesiology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome from 1984 to 1986 .
Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop in Mérida on January 27, 1994 and appointed him titular bishop of Lesvi . He was ordained episcopal on April 8th of the same year by the Archbishop of Mérida, Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo ; Co- consecrators were Miguel Antonio Salas Salas CIM , Old Archbishop of Mérida, and Vicente Ramón Hernández Peña , Bishop of Trujillo . He chose PARATE VIAS DOMINI as his motto .
On July 12, 1997, he was appointed Bishop of Punto Fijo by Pope John Paul II , and on August 30, 1997, he was appointed to the office.
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the Universidad del Zulia (2009)
Web links
- Entry on Juan María Leonardi Villasmil on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved June 10, 2014.
- Monseñor Juan María Leonardi partió al encuentro eterno con el Padre Celestial
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Bishop of Punto Fijo 1997-2014 |
Carlos Alfredo Cabezas Mendoza |
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SURNAME | Leonardi Villasmil, Juan María |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Punto Fijo |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boconó |
DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2014 |
Place of death | Maracaibo |