Werner O. Ciocarelli

Werner Otto Ciocarelli (born February 14, 1925 ; resident in Zurich ; † April 15, 2020 ) was a Swiss manager and politician . He was Swiss governor of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Life

Werner O. Ciocarelli was a board member of the insurance group Bâloise . He was a long-standing member of the board of directors responsible for real estate and mortgages at the Swiss Pro Senectute Foundation . He was a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council .

As a member of the Roman Catholic Central Commission of the Canton of Zurich , in 1977 he published the paper "Documentation on the question of the separation of church and state in the Canton of Zurich from a Catholic perspective".

Werner Ciocarelli was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1964 he was made a Knight by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Louis-Séverin Haller , Abbot Bishop of Saint-Maurice and Grand Prior of the Order of Knights in Switzerland . Ciocarelli was appointed governor of the Swiss Lieutenancy of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Giuseppe Caprio in 1990 . He was appointed Grand Cross Knight in 1990 and Honorary Governor in 2002. In 2002 he received the Golden Palm of Jerusalem . He was awarded the Papal Order of Gregory .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Werner O. Ciocarelli , NZZ of April 21, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Theodor Wyder (Ed.): Le Cardinal Henri Schwery. Editions Saint-Augustin, Saint-Maurice 2002, p. 319.
3. ^ Former governors: Werner O. Ciocarelli , OSSEH , accessed on March 25, 2012

predecessor	Office	successor
André Braun wine	Governor of the Swiss Lieutenancy of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 1990–2002	Giorgio Moroni Stampa