Marcello Costalunga

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Marcello Costalunga (born January 5, 1925 in Rome , Italy ; † May 5, 2010 ibid) was a curial archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Marcello Costalunga received after his theological training in the seminary of the Diocese of Rome on 27 March 1948, the ordination by the Auxiliary Bishop of Rome, Luigi Traglia . He was chaplain of the Roman parish of San Giovanni Battista de'Rossi , later general secretary of the vicariate of Ugo Cardinal Poletti and an employee in the Roman curia . From 1979 to 1990 Costalunga was Undersecretary and Deputy Secretary General of the Congregation for Bishops . In his role he was involved, among other things, in the recognition of Opus Dei and the associated establishment of its own personal prelature, a legal form introduced by the Second Vatican Council.

1990 Pope named him John Paul II. To Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and ordered him to Offizial in the Curia. He was ordained bishop on January 6, 1991, by Pope John Paul II himself; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of the Curia and later Cardinal, Giovanni Battista Re , and the Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops, Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali .

Marcello Costalunga was Papal Administrator of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls from 1990 to 2001 . From 1999 to 2001 he was the papal delegate for the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua . In 2001, his age-related resignation was granted.

Bishop Costalunga died in his home in the parish of Santa Silvia in Rome. He was buried on May 7, 2010 in St. Paul Outside the Walls.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'Osservatore Romano: L'erezione dell'Opus Dei in Prelatura personale , November 28, 1982
personal data
SURNAME Costalunga, Marcello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Curia Archbishop of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2010
Place of death Rome