Angelo Acerbi

Bishop Angelo Acerbi

Angelo Acerbi (Sesta Godano, September 23, 1925) is an Italian Catholic Archbishop, and retired Apostolic Nuncio to the Netherlands and Colombia. Angelo Acerbi was born in Sesta Godano on September 23, 1925.[1]

Early life

On March 27, 1948, he was ordained a presbyter for the diocese of La Spezia. After graduating from canon law, in 1954 he obtained his license in theology. Having attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

He has worked in the nunciature in Colombia, Brazil, Japan and France, as well as in the International Relations Department of the Holy See's Secretariat of State.

On June 22, 1974, Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of Zella in Tunisia, and apostolic pronuncio in New Zealand and apostolic delegate to the Pacific Ocean. Acerbi was the first representative of Vatican diplomacy specifically dedicated to dealing with those territories in which the Holy See had never previously been represented directly. He received the episcopal ordination on 30 June following the same pontiff, coconsacranti archbishops Giovanni Benelli, deputy for the General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

On 14 August 1979 Pope John Paul II appointed him apostolic nuncio to Colombia. In the following February, Msgr. Acerbi was hostage with 26 other presidents, many of whom belonged to various countries' diplomacy during an assault on the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, put in place by the communist guerrillas of the 19 April Movement. The period of imprisonment lasted several weeks, during which Acerbi was allowed to celebrate Holy Mass.[2]

On March 28, 1990, he was transferred to Hungary, the first apostolic nuncio to be named after the establishment of Communism in that country [1]. The Hungarian period of Acerbi's diplomatic activity can be remembered Stipulates the Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Hungary on religious assistance to the Armed Forces and the Border Police [3] and the preparation of the one relating to the financing of public and other purely religious activities ("the Faithful faith ") carried out in Hungary by the Catholic Church, in particular the financing of educational activities promoted by the Catholic Church and signed by the Cardinal Angelo Sodano [4] shortly after the end of Acerbi's mandate in the Central European country. On 13 January 1994 he was also appointed, first,[5] apostolic nuncio in Moldova. On 8 February 1997 he was transferred to the nuncio in the Netherlands. On February 27, 2001, Pope John Paul II accepted his renunciation for reaching retirement age.

Coat of arms of Angelo Acerbi.

On June 21, he was appointed prelate of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The task of this figure is to ensure that the priestly and priestly life of the chaplains and their apostolate take place in accordance with discipline and the spirited spirit, assisting the Grand Master and the Great Commendator in the care of the life and religious observance of the members of the " Order and all that concerns the spiritual character of the works of the Order. On January 21, 2006, Monsignor Acerbi publicly disproved the voices, collected and published in an article in the Italian Panorama Week of 28 December 2005, according to which the Archbishop himself would be head of an inner fringe made up of young adherents 'Order of Malta, linked to the Vatican, and dissatisfied with the flattening of the Order on a generic solidarity, increasingly less tied to its Christian identity and increasingly dependent on EU funds and programs. Some disagreements would also have had the purpose of putting pressure on the Grand Master then in office, Frà Andrew Bertie, to resign their resignations by giving way to a new strong man not belonging to the nobility.[6] On July 4, 2015, Pope Francis appointed a new prelate, Monsignor Jean Laffitte.

References

  1. ↑ David M. Cheney. "Archbishop Angelo Acerbi [Catholic-Hierarchy]". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  2. ↑ Colombian terrorists wow Teheran-like siege, articolo su The Day del 2 aprile 1980, vedi.
  3. ↑ "Accordi bilaterali vigenti della Santa Sede". iuscangreg.it. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  4. ↑ Apostolic Nunciature Moldova.
  5. ↑ unfounded-comments.
  6. ↑ Italian Magazine claims there is much ‘disorder’ in the Order, articolo dell'8 gennaio 2006, The Malta Independent,.
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