Gualtiero Bassetti

His Eminence
Gualtiero Bassetti
Cardinal, Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve
Archdiocese Perugia-Città della Pieve
See Perugia-Città della Pieve
Appointed 16 July 2009
Installed 4 October 2009
Predecessor Giuseppe Chiaretti
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Orders
Ordination 29 June 1966
by Ermenegildo Florit
Consecration 8 September 1994
by Silvano Piovanelli
Created Cardinal 22 February 2014
by Pope Francis
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1942-04-07) 7 April 1942
Popolano di Marradi, Italy
Nationality Italian
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Gualtiero Bassetti (born 7 April 1942 in Popolano in Marradi) is an Italian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Biography

Bassetti was ordained a priest on 29 June 1966 by Cardinal Ermenegildo Florit, Archbishop of Florence. On 9 July 1994 he was appointed bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino and consecrated on 8 September 1994 by Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, Archbishop of Florence. He was named bishop of Arezzo on 21 November 1998. He was named the archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve on 16 July 2009.

He was elected head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Umbria in 2012[1] and is deputy president of the Italian Episcopal Conference.[2]

On 22 February 2014, the archbishop, along with 18 others, was inducted into the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis.[3] Bassetti commented in response to his nomination: "My aims have not changed. I want to visit factories and hospitals, because as the Pope says, we must 'be pastors with the odor of sheep.' This is the time to roll our sleeves back."[2] He also praised the Pope's nomination of Archbishop Loris Capovilla as "a direct reference the Second Vatican Council".[4] La Stampa called it a "surprise nomination".[2] It was the first time a bishop of Perugia had been named a cardinal since Gioacchino Pecci (later Pope Leo XIII) in 1853.[5] His selection was seen, according to John L. Allen, as a demonstration of Francis' preference for "traditionally neglected locales" and for "political moderates".[6] Another observer described him as "instantly papabile, a man cut from the same cloth as Francis".[5] Giovanni Paciullo, Rector of the University for Foreign Students of Perugia, called the nomination a tribute to Bassetti's "constant concern for the least, the excluded, the foreigner ... which brought him into the paths of marginalization and suffering..."[4]

Bassetti has been praised by traditionalists for being a strong proponent of the traditional Tridentine Latin mass.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Perugia, monsignor Gualtiero Bassetti è cardinale". Giornale dell'Umbria. 12 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Galeazzi, Giacomo (15 January 2014). "The importance of Gualtiero Bassetti's nomination". Vatican Insider. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Pope Francis announces names of new Cardinals - Vatican Radio, 12 January 2014
  4. 1 2 "Papa Francesco nomina cardinale l'arcivescovo di Perugia Gualtiero Bassetti". La Nazione (Umbia). 12 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 Winters, Michael Sean (January 13, 2014). "The New Cardinals". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Allen Jr., John L. (January 13, 2014). "Four new echoes in 'Francis revolution'". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/2996/francis_and_traditionalist_catholics.aspx

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