Mario Rizzi

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Mario Rizzi (born March 3, 1926 in San Giovanni in Persiceto , Province of Bologna , Italy , † April 13, 2012 ) was a diplomat of the Holy See .

Life

Mario Rizzi, son of a farming family near Bologna , studied philosophy and Catholic theology and was ordained a priest on October 3, 1948 . After studying canon law , he entered the service of the Roman Curia . From 1982 to 1991 he was Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches .

On February 28, 1991, Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Balneoregium and Apostolic Nuncio in Bulgaria . As such, he was the first nuncio after the fall of the communist regime and the first nuncio since the pontificate of John XXIII. The Pro-Secretary of the State Secretariat Angelo Sodano donated him the episcopal ordination on April 20 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Metodi Dimitrov Stratiev AA , Apostolic Exarch of Sofia , and Benito Cocchi , Bishop of Parma-Fontevivo .

He was a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and since 1997 advisor to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches . In 1987 he became a “Magister” at the Academiae Latinitati Fovendae . In 1990 he was invested in the order of knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem with the rank of commander . Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation in 1996.

Fonts

  • "De triplici via", immersus in Saint Bonaventura's "Opera Omnia", 1976
  • "Nel regno di Bertoldo", Rome 1976
  • "Diadumena di Dio", Rome 1982
  • "Catullus Auratus", Certamen Latinitatis, Verona 1988
  • "Il trifoglio di San Patrizio", Rome 1989
  • "In Laudem Finniae" 1997
  • 8 personal notes on Latin in the post-synodal apostolic exhortation "Sacramentum Caritatis" of the Holy Father Benedict XVI in "Urbe" 2007

literature

  • Alberto Forni: Sui sentieri di Papa Roncalli. La missione a Sofia di Mons. Mario Rizzi (1991-1996). Rogate, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b RIZZI Mario, (SER Mons.), Archbishop. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Who is who in Italy , accessed April 15, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 195.75.145.68
  2. ↑ "KGB: MONS.RIZZI, assurdo DARE Importanza A QUESTE VOCI" , IGN, accessed 15 April 2012
personal data
SURNAME Rizzi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH San Giovanni in Persiceto
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2012