Libero Gerosa

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Libero Gerosa (born March 2, 1949 in Stabio , Ticino ) is a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and canon lawyer .

Life

Libero Gerosa studied Catholic theology at the University of Friborg and Canon Law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1975, he received in Lugano the priesthood . In 1984 he was in Friborg to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1988 he qualified as a professor for canon law at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . From 1990 to 2000 he was full professor of canon law at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn , and from 1997 to 1999 he was its rector .

From 2000 until his retirement in 2015 he was professor of canon law at the Theological Faculty of Lugano (FTL), from 2000 to 2008 he was its rector. In 2002 he founded the International Institute for Canon Law and Comparative Religious Law (DiReCom) , of which he is director. Since his retirement he has been teaching Biblical Hermeneutics at the FTL.

Gerosa has taken on numerous national and international commitments. In 2001 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as an advisor to the Pontifical Council for the Laity . Since 2002 he has been Vice-President of the Theological Commission of the Swiss Bishops' Conference and since 2003 advisor to the Congregation for the Clergy . Since January 2009 Gerosa has been President of the “Church and State” commission of the Swiss Bishops' Conference and President of the Appeals Commission of the Administrative Court of the Diocese of Lugano .

Gerosa is one of the authors of the church official translation of the CCEO into German .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Charisma and law. Reflections on church history on the “original charism” of the new forms of unification in the church. Johannes, Trier 1989, ISBN 3-89411-004-X .
  • Excommunication and free obedience of faith. Theological considerations on the foundation and applicability of canonical sanctions. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-87088-851-2 .
  • The right of the church. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-87088-897-0 .
  • Interpretation of law in canon law. Suggestions and future perspectives for Catholic canonism. Lit, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4253-3 .
  • Do theology - bring faith into conversation. Bonifatius, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-89710-181-5 .
  • Canon Law (Handbooks of Catholic Theology). Continuum, London 2002, ISBN 0-8264-1391-9 .
  • with Ludger Müller : Catholic Church and State in Switzerland. Lit, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80056-5 .
  • as ed. with Christoph Ohly and Wilhelm Rees : Theologia Iuris Canonici (= Canonical Studies and Texts, Vol. 67). Festschrift for Ludger Müller on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15339-8 .

Gerosa is represented in the second edition of the handbook of Catholic canon law, published in 1999, with two short articles (about the highest authority in the church and about church movements ). Together with Eugenio Corecco , he is the author of the standard Italian introductory work Il diritto della Chiesa (Milan 1995) and the two-volume Introduzione al diritto canonico published in 2012 in the Libreria Editrice Vaticana .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Listl , Heribert Schmitz (ed.): Handbook of Catholic Church Law. 2nd, fundamentally revised edition, Pustet, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-791-71664-0 , pp. 326-330 u. 586-590.
personal data
SURNAME Gerosa, Libero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Džeroza, Libero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian and Roman Catholic canon lawyer as well as university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stabio , Ticino