Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi
Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi SDB (born September 21, 1938 in Sesto San Giovanni , Province of Milan , Italy ) is an Italian religious priest , missionary and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montevideo .
Life
Cotugno Fanizzi put 1962 in the Congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco , the profession and went in the same year as a missionary to Uruguay . After his philosophical and theological studies, he was ordained a priest in Chile on July 26, 1967 . In 1971 he returned to Uruguay.
On June 13, 1996, he was appointed Bishop of Melo by Pope John Paul II ; his episcopal ordination by the Apostolic Nuncio in Uruguay, Francesco De Nittis , took place on July 28 of the same year; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Montevideo, José Gottardi Cristelli SDB, and his predecessor in Melo, Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González .
On December 4, 1998, he was named the sixth Archbishop of Montevideo . On October 8, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . as a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America .
On February 11, 2014, Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation and appointed his Salesian brother Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet as his successor.
Positions
In November 2008, he caused a stir when, in an interview with the Uruguayan daily El Pais , he pointed out to Roman Catholic politicians who voted for the law to decriminalize abortion that this would lead to an "ipso-facto excommunication " .
In the course of the 2008 annual campaign of the Adveniat episcopal aid campaign , he pointed out: “Uruguay is the land of the forgotten poor. There are neighborhoods here that look just as bad as the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. If not worse. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nomine nella Pontificia Commissione per l'America Latina , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of October 8, 2009.
- ↑ zenit.org ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Metropolitan pastoral care in Montevideo, Uruguay ( Memento of the original from June 23, 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. - adveniat.de
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| José Gottardi Cristelli SDS |
Archbishop of Montevideo 1998-2014 |
Daniel Fernando Cardinal Sturla Berhouet SDB |
| Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González |
Bishop of Melo 1996–1998 |
Luis del Castillo Estrada SJ |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cotugno Fanizzi, Nicolás |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cotugno Fanizzi, Nicolás SDB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian religious priest, missionary and Roman Catholic archbishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sesto San Giovanni , Province of Milan |