Luigi Padovese

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Luigi Padovese giving a lecture on the life of the Apostle Paul in the Domforum Cologne (2009)

Luigi Padovese OFMCap (born March 31, 1947 in Milan , Italy , † June 3, 2010 in İskenderun , Turkey ) was a Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia in Turkey. Until his murder he was chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference .

Life

education

Luigi Padovese joined in 1965 the Congregation of the Capuchins in, put there in 1968 professed from and received on 16 June 1973, the priestly ordination . He studied theology at the Pontifical University Antonianum and patristics and religious history at the Pontifical Gregorian University . In 1976 he moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1978 he received his doctorate from the Gregorian in Rome .

Scientific work

From 1977 he taught patristics and the history of theology at the Capuchin Theological Studies in Milan. In 1979 he moved to the Pontifical Institute for Missions Abroad . In 1995 he was appointed full professor of patrology at the Antonianum, later he also taught the history of spirituality (patristic and late antiquity) at the Gregoriana as a visiting professor .

In addition to various tasks in the Capuchin Order, he was President of the Franciscan Institute for Spirituality since 1990.

Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia

Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Monteverde in 2004 and appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia . He was ordained bishop on November 7, 2004, by the Apostolic Nuncio in Turkey, Archbishop Edmond Y. Farhat ; Co- consecrators were Francesco Gioia , Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, and his predecessor and new Archbishop of Izmir, Ruggero Franceschini .

From 2008 until his death he was chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (CCEE).

Padovese assassination

Padovese was stabbed to death on June 3, 2010 in front of his house in the Mediterranean port of İskenderun and then beheaded. His driver Murat Altun, who is described as mentally unstable, was arrested as a suspected murderer. According to statements from the Turkish authorities, Vicar Apostolic Louis Pelâtre and Pope Benedict XVI. there is no evidence of a political or religious background.

Padovese's predecessor, Ruggero Franceschini , Archbishop of Smyrna , who claims to have hired Murat Altun, wants to recognize the handwriting of an Islamist in the execution of the murder and in contrast to the officially Turkish and Vatican versions: “This is how someone kills who wants to show that he is is a really radical Muslim. "

With great sympathy, Luigi Padovese's body was buried in the grave of his family in Milan on June 14, 2010 after a requiem in Milan Cathedral .

Honors

Honorary citizenships

Luigi Padovese received the honorary citizenship of the municipality of Stegaurach (Bamberg district) in 2007 .

Naming of places and buildings

By resolution of the Stegaurach local council, the village square near the church was renamed "Luigi-Padovese-Platz" in memory of the honorary citizen. A monument was also unveiled in the square. The parish home of the parish of Stegaurach, which was re-inaugurated in 2012 after a new building, was named after the bishop for the parish home "Luigi Padovese".

Fonts

  • Lo scandalo della croce: La polemica anticristiana nei primi secoli (Collana Contributi teologici) , Dehoniane 1988, ISBN 88-396-0263-1
  • Piccoli dialoghi fra santi di marmo , primera edizione: Piemme 1999, ISBN 88-384-3079-9 ; seconda edizione: Edizioni Messaggero 2005, ISBN 88-250-1158-X
  • Introduzione alla teologia patristica (Introduzione alle discipline teologiche) , Piemme 1992, ISBN 88-384-1784-9
  • Paolo di Tarso. Archeologia - Storia - Ricezione , Effatà Editrice 2009, ISBN 978-88-7402-556-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Head of the Turkish Bishops' Conference stabbed to death , Welt Online , June 3, 2010, accessed on June 3, 2010.
  2. ↑ Chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference stabbed Spiegel Online on June 3, 2010
  3. ↑ See confession after the killing of Bishop in Turkey , Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), June 4, 2010, accessed on June 7, 2010.
  4. ↑ ZENIT: Bishop Padovese was almost completely beheaded on June 9, 2010
  5. ↑ Suzan Fraser: Roman Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey , chron from June 3, 2010
  6. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “Benedict in Paul's footsteps” , June 5, 2010
  7. ↑ Welt online: The harrowing death of Bishop Luigi Padovese
  8. ↑ Cf. "This is how a radical Muslim kills" - murder of Bishop Padovese: "Pope was badly advised" "Katholisches - Magazin für Kirche und Kultur", June 14, 2010
  9. ↑ Murdered Bishop Padovese buried in Milan
  10. ↑ Stegaurach prays for the murdered Bishop Luigi Padovese
  11. ↑ In honor of the murdered man: Luigi-Padovese-Platz. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  12. ^ The parish church of Stegaurach
predecessor Office successor
Ruggero Franceschini Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia
2004–2010 		Ruggero Franceschini (administrator)
personal data
SURNAME Padovese, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2010
Place of death İskenderun , Turkey