Luigi Fogar

Bishop Luigi Fogar (1923)

Luigi Fogar (born January 27, 1882 in Piuma near Gorizia , Austria-Hungary , † August 26, 1971 ) was Bishop of Trieste-Capodistria .

Life

Luigi Fogar was ordained a priest on July 23, 1907 and initially worked in the diocese of Gorizia-Gradisca . On July 9, 1923 he was appointed Bishop of Trieste-Capodistria . During his tenure, Fogar tried to promote the peaceful coexistence of the Italian and Slovenian populations in his diocese, for example by having church services held in the language of the respective parishioners in the individual parishes.

In May 1934 Fogar refused to inaugurate a monument to Guglielmo Oberdan . The irredentist Oberdan, who was executed by the Austro-Hungarian government in 1882 as a result of an attempted assassination attempt on Emperor Franz-Joseph I and then made a national hero by the Italian population, was used by the fascists as an instrument to create a national consensus within the Italian population . Fogar's attitude not only opposed the Italian government, but also became a target of the irredentist movement . Due to political pressure, like his predecessor Angelo Bartolomasi, he resigned from his position as Bishop of Trieste-Capodstria on October 30, 1936 and was appointed titular archbishop of the Greek port city of Patras that same year .

predecessor	Office	successor
Angelo Bartolomasi	Bishop of Trieste-Koper 1923–1936	Antonio Santin
Andrea Giacinto Longhin	Archbishop of Patras 1936–1971	-