Gilberto Agustoni
Gilberto Cardinal Agustoni ( born July 26, 1922 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland ) is a retired cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Gilberto Agustoni comes from a deep-rooted in the Catholic faith family, whose five sons, three received the sacrament of Holy Orders. One of his brothers was the church musician Luigi Agustoni. After leaving school in Schaffhausen and Lugano, he studied in Rome, then because of the Second World War in Fribourg philosophy and theology. He completed his studies with a doctorate in theology and was ordained by Bishop Angelo Jelmini a priest in 1946.
He then became auxiliary vicar at the Catholic Action of the Diocese of Lugano. 1950 Agustoni stepped on personal recommendation from Alfredo Ottaviani at the service of the Vatican, studied in addition to his duties in the administration of law at the Lateran University and passed the licentiate. In the years during and after the Second Vatican Council, he was responsible for a significant share of responsibility for the meaningful use of the liturgy reform with him, especially the coordination between the Department of sacramental doctrine on the one hand and the liturgy came up on the other. Pope Paul VI. appointed him as consultant to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the 1970 Auditor of the Roman Rota.
1986 Pope John Paul II appointed him Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy and gave him a bishop. As titular he received Caprulae in the Italian region Veneto. Agustoni worked on the creation of the new Roman Catechism and many other Vatican pronouncements. In 1991 he became a member of the Supreme Court of the Catholic Church, the Apostolic Signatura, which he then served as prefect from 1992 to 1998. In addition, he was given the lead of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the Vatican.
1994 took him John Paul II as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Santi Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta in the College of Cardinals to. On 24 February 2005, he was retaining his title diakonia (per hac vice ) elevated to cardinal priests.