Vincenzo Molo

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Vincenzo Massimo Pietro Molo (born May 31, 1833 in Bellinzona , † March 15, 1904 in Lugano ) was a Swiss bishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Vincenzo Molo was the son of the Ticino State Councilor Corrado Molo, who was ousted in 1839, and his wife Luigia Bonzanigo. Since his father had gone into exile in Milan as a result of the political upheavals in Ticino, he attended grammar school there and studied at the University of Pavia , from which he received his doctorate as a Doctor iuris utriusque . He entered the seminary in Milan , studied theology and was ordained a priest in Milan in 1856.

After ordination , he taught at the boys' seminars in Seveso and Monza and taught canon law at the Milan seminary until he was appointed to Rome in 1864 as vice- rector of the Lombard seminary. After the Italian conquest of the Papal States in 1870, he went to Bellinzona, where he received a position as a canon at the collegiate monastery of Santi Pietro e Stefano and was appointed archpriest in 1878 .

On September 20, 1887, he was preconized as bishop of the Apostolic Administration of the Canton of Ticino, established in 1885 and the Diocese of Lugano since 1888 , and consecrated Bishop of Gallipoli on October 2 by Bishop Gaspard Mermillod in the collegiate church in Bellinzona . Consecration assistants were the bishops Adrien Jardinier of Sion (Sion) and Étienne Bagnoud of Bethlehem, Abbot of St-Maurice. He took his bishopric in Lugano , where the collegiate church of San Lorenzo di Lugano was elevated to the Cathedral of San Lorenzo by papal bull of September 7, 1888 . In 1895 he was appointed papal house prelate and Roman count .

Bishop Molo was a proponent of a concordat between the federal government of the Swiss Confederation and the Holy See , which was to regulate the relations of the Canton of Ticino with the Roman Catholic Church on a permanent basis. As archpriest he was responsible for the establishment of the Santa Maria Institute in Bellinzona and the restoration of the collegiate church; as bishop he took care of the organization of the new diocese and the construction of the diocesan seminary to which he bequeathed his property.

He was buried in the Basilica del Sacro Cuore in Lugano Molino Nuovo .

literature

  • Aldo Aliverti: Mons. Vincenzo Molo (1833–1904): Vescovo titolare di Gallipoli. Il amministratore Apostolico del Cantone Ticino. In: 500esimo della Collegiata , Bellinzona Turismo, Bellinzona 2012, pp. 30–35.
  • Siro Borrani : Il Ticino Sacro. Memorie Religose della Svizzera Italiana raccolte dal sacerdote Siro Borrani prevosto di Losone. Tipografia e Libreria Cattolica di Giovanni Grassi, Lugano 1896.
  • Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 22.
  • Joseph Mariétan : Mgr. Molo: Evêque titulaire de Gallipoli et administrateur apostolique du Tessin. In: Echos de Saint-Maurice , Volume 6, 1904, pp. 65-67
  • Pierre Surchat: Vincenzo Molo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2008 , accessed January 13, 2020 .
  • Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera: Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, pp. 132, 133, 135-137, 141-143, 145, 148, 152, 154, 206, 208, 218n, 219n, 312, 319, 329, 358, 370n, 373n, 374n , 385, 399, 407, 431, 451

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Surchat: Vincenzo Molo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2008 .
predecessor Office successor
Eugène Lachat Bishop of Lugano
1886–1904 		Alfredo Peri-Morosini
personal data
SURNAME Molo, Vincenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molo, Vincenzo Massimo Pietro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellinzona
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1904
Place of death Lugano