Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli
Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli ( born November 7, 1918 in San Mauro di Saline, province of Verona, Italy, † August 28 2012 in Negrar, Verona province ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Belluno - Feltre.
Life
Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli came from San Mauro di Saline, a mountain village, was spoken in the Cimbrian. He received on 30 May 1942 in Savona ordained priest and served as a pastor in Sciarborasca. In 1944 he was vice-rector of the Istituto studenti ecclesiastici, the student was home from the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. He graduated in 1946 in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University and studied 1947/48 at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.
Giovanni Ducoli entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in December 1948 and was head of the Nunciature in Honduras and also secretary of the Nunciature in Nicaragua and charge d' affaires ad interim in Honduras. In 1952 he returned to Rome and was deputy to Bishop Giovanni Battista Montini (from 1963: Paul VI. ) At the State Secretariat. In 1954 he was appointed to the Pontifical Commission for the Marian Year. After changes in the administrative structure of the State Secretariat, he worked with Secretary of State Cardinal Domenico Tardini together and until 1967 with the Curia archbishops and cardinals later Antonio Samore and Agostino Casaroli.
In 1956 he became a member of the papal delegation headed by Fernando Cardinal Cento for the Eucharistic Congress of Cordoba ( Argentina). As a close associate of Archbishop Samore was Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli also a member of the Commission for Latin America. In this role, he had frequent contacts with Giuseppe Carraro, who later became Bishop of Verona; who was heavily involved in the organization and structure of the Latin American Seminar in Verona.
Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 22 April 1967 Titular Bishop of Fidenae and Auxiliary Bishop of Verona. The Bishop of Verona Giuseppe Carraro gave him on 14 May 1967, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Mario Casariego y Acevedo CRS, Archbishop of Guatemala City, and Giuseppe Lenotti, Bishop of Foggia.
On October 7, 1975, he was called by Pope Paul VI. appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of Belluno - Feltre collapsed.
Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli invited Pope John Paul II for the first holiday of a pope after centuries outside Castel Gandolfo in the Dolomites village Lorenzago di Cadore and welcomed the Holy Father on August 26, 1979 in Belluno, Marmolada and Agordo and six more times. He was involved for the beatification of Pope John Paul I, with whom he was personally acquainted. He was the initiator of the establishment of the sanctuary Il santuario della Madonna del Nevegal sull'Alpe and initiator of the restoration of St. Martin's Cathedral in Belluno, who was appointed to a minor basilica Motu proprio, and other historic buildings in Belluno. He devoted himself particularly to the " pastoral care of tourism" and forced along with Villaggio senza barrier the development of the village of San Paolo Villaggio in Cavallino, a facility for physically and mentally disabled people, and supported the initiative of the " village without borders. "
On February 2, 1996 Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.
Honors
- Grand Officer ( Grande Ufficiale ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Grand Cross ( Cavaliere di Gran Croce ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2008)