Marcello Costalunga

Marcello Costalunga ( born January 5, 1925 in Rome, Italy, † May 5, 2010 ) was an Archbishop Curia of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Marcello Costalunga received after his theological education at the seminary of the diocese of Rome on March 27, 1948, ordained priest by the suffragan bishop in Rome, Luigi Traglia. He was chaplain of the Roman Parish of San Giovanni Battista de'Rossi, later Secretary General of the Vicariate of Cardinal Poletti and employees in the Curia. From 1979 to 1990 Costalunga was Under Secretary and Deputy General Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops. He was in his role involved among other things in the recognition of Opus Dei and the associated setting up your own personal prelature, one introduced by the Second Vatican Council legal form.

1990 Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and ordered him to the Officer in the Curia. He received his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1991, Pope John Paul II himself; Co-consecrators were the Curia archbishop and later Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and the secretary of the Congregation for Bishops, Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali Curia.

Marcello Costalunga was from 1990 to 2001 Papal Administrator of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. From 1999 to 2001 he was the Papal Delegate for the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. 2001 his age-related resignation was accepted.

Bishop Costalunga died at his home in the parish of Santa Silvia in Rome. He was buried on 7 May 2010 in St. Paul Outside the Walls.