Nicolae Iosif Camilli
Nicolae Iosif Camilli also Nicola Giuseppe Camilli (born April 23, 1840 in Monterubbiano , Italy ; † December 30, 1915 in Iași , Romania ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Iași from 1884 to 1894 and from 1904 to 1915 .
Life
Nicolas Giuseppe Franciscus, son of Antonius Camilli and Rosa born. Bongazoni attended the school in his hometown and entered the Franciscan monastery there. He celebrated his solemn profession on April 3, 1857 in the Franciscan monastery in Osimo . After studying in Piceno and Recanati , he was ordained a religious priest OFMCon on December 4, 1863 . After years as a pastor in his hometown, he was sent to a mission to Moldova by his superior in 1873 . First as a confessor of the Sisters of Notre Dame, he also taught at their school in Iași.
On September 16, 1881 he was by Pope Leo XIII. the titular bishop of Mosynopolis and on 4 December of the same year by Florian-Jules-Félix Cardinal Desprez , the archbishop of Toulouse consecrated . The Pope instructed him to prepare for the establishment of a diocese in Iaşi. With the papal bull of June 27, 1884, Pope Leo XIII. the diocese of Iași and appointed Nicolae Iosif Camilli as the first bishop. He opened a seminary to build a local clergy in his diocese, east of the Carpathian Mountains . Since the candidates for the priesthood mostly came from poor families, he sought support in his home country. In 1890 he went on a "begging trip" through Western Europe and found good and helpful Catholics there. He had a catechism printed in Romanian and demanded that his priests also use the national language in pastoral work. At the direction of the religious superiors, he resigned as Bishop of Iași on May 10, 1894. After the ordination of his first nine sub-deacons , he left the country on November 20, 1894.
He became titular bishop of Gadara on February 25, 1896 and titular archbishop of Constantia in Scythia on March 27, 1901 .
After the resignation of Bishop Dominic Jaquet , Pope Pius X appointed him on August 30, 1904 a second time as Bishop of Iași with the personal title Archbishop pro hac vice . He organized parishes and deaneries and had Catholic teachers recruited and trained.
Archbishop Camilli died on December 30, 1915 and was buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Iași.
Web links
- Entry on Nicolae Iosif Camilli (OFMConv) on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- detailed biography of Nicolae Iosif Camilli (OFMConv) on the homepage of the Diocese of Iaşi (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Annuario Pontificio, Year 1913
- ^ Annuario Pontificio, Year 1917
- ^ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 279, and Page 316
- ^ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 396, and Page 558
- ↑ Biography on the homepage of the Diocese of Iaşi
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Dominic Jaquet |
Bishop of Iași 1904–1915 |
Alexandru Theodor Cisar |
|
Bishop of Iași 1884-1894 |
Dominic Jaquet |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camilli, Nicolae Iosif |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Camilli, Nicola Giuseppe Franciscus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian priest, Roman Catholic Bishop of Jassy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monterubbiano |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1915 |
| Place of death | Iași |