Annibale Bugnini
Annibale Bugnini ( born June 14, 1912 in Civitella del Lago, Umbria, † July 3, 1982 in Rome ) was an Italian Catholic priest Medal ( Vincentian ), Archbishop and liturgist.
Life
Bugnini was ordained priest on 26 July 1936. Since 1946 he was editor of the liturgical magazine Ephemerides liturgicae. From 1948 to 1960 he was secretary of Pope Pius XII. Commission used for general reform of the liturgy. In 1957 he became professor of liturgy at the Pontifical Lateran University and from 1959 to 1962 secretary of the Liturgical preparation commission of the 2nd Vatican Council. Bugnini was in 1964 as secretary of Pope Paul VI. Consilium used to perform the liturgy constitution, whose president, first Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro, since 1968 Benno were good, works. From 1969 to 1975 he served as secretary and driving force of the emerging Congregation for Divine Worship. The role fell to him as Cardinal Prefect Good died in 1970 and his successor Arturo Tabera officiated only from 1971 to 1973. The Congregation for Divine Worship in 1975 united under Cardinal Prefect Knox with the Sacrament Congregation. Consilium and the Congregation continued after the Second Vatican Council, on behalf of and in close cooperation with Pope Paul VI. the liturgical reform in order.
The hard-working, active "manager" Bugnini was because of this reform in some places as controversial, but was able to rely on the goodwill of the Pope himself, until its conclusion in 1975. Some traditionalist circles accused him that he was a Freemason and that he had negatively affected by the reform of the liturgy of the Catholic Church want to influence. The Vatican denied this in L'Osservatore Romano on 10 October 1976.
On January 6, 1972 Bugnini was appointed Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana. He received his episcopal consecration on February 13, 1972 Pope Paul VI.
On January 4, 1976, Annibale Bugnini Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Iran. The surprising merger which was founded in 1969 Congregation for Divine Worship with the Sacrament Congregation in the summer of 1975 and the transfer of its Secretary in Iran was based among other things on arbitrary actions on the part Bugninis that does not occasionally hintergangene since January 1974, reigning Cardinal Prefect James Robert Knox and the Congregation of the Faith under Cardinal Franjo Seper wanted to tolerate more. The Pope had enforced the liturgical reform, but endorsed no permanent, institutionalized liturgical creativity. In Iran, Bugnini crashed again with great zeal in the work that great during the Iranian revolution for the Vatican gained importance ( Publication: La Chiesa in Iran).
On July 3, 1982 Annibale Bugnini died in a Roman hospital.
Works
- La riforma liturgica 1948-1975. Nuova Riveduta edizione e arricchiata note di e di Supplementi per una lettura analitica; Rome: CLV - Ed. Liturgiche, 1997 ( no ISBN )
- German translation of the 1st edition: The liturgical reform. From 1948 to 1975. Witness and testament; Freiburg: Herder, 1988; ISBN 3-451-20727-3
- Important " publications ", composed Bugninis are the renewed liturgical books of the Roman Rite as a result of the liturgical reform of Vatican 2.