Franc Rode

Cardinal Franc Rode CM ( born September 23, 1934 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a retired cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

After the war ended in 1945 Franc Rode and his family fled for fear of Communist persecution to Austria and spent at least one year in a refugee camp Peggetz near Lienz (Tyrol ) and then, after its dissolution for 2 years in Spittal an der Drau ( Carinthia ). 1948 left his family emigrated to Europe and Argentina.

There he joined in 1952 in the Lazaristenorden who sent him to study Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and at the Institut Catholique de Paris. In 1957 he made ​​his perpetual vows and received on June 29, 1960 in Paris, the sacrament of Holy Orders. In the same year he received his doctorate of theology

In 1965 he became pastor in Slovenia, where he served as Secretary of the Secretariat for dialogue with non-believers by Pope John Paul II in 1987 until his appointment to Rome and to the appointment. 1993 appointed him to the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

On March 5, 1997, he was appointed Archbishop of Ljubljana. The bishop He was ordained by his predecessor in office, Archbishop Alojzij Šuštar, on 6 April of the same year. Co-consecrators were the archbishops Franc Perko and Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic. Shortly thereafter, he was also Chairman of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference. On 11 February 2004 he was recalled to Rome and appointed prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. With the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, he lost law of the Church, this function first, except that, after their election by Benedict XVI. confirmed in his office.

Pope Benedict XVI. took him in solemn consistory on 24 March 2006 as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella in the College of Cardinals to.

Cardinal Franc Rode, who was admitted to the Order of Malta in 1997 as honorary Konventualkaplan of the Slovenian Association and appointed as Archbishop of Ljubljana Grand Cross - Konventualkaplan 1999, Honour and Devotion Grand Cross - Bailli since 25 May 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed on 19 September 2008 on the papal legate for the anniversary of the Cistercian abbey forest Cardinal Franc Rode Assen.

On January 4, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Franc Rode of the argument put forward on grounds of age resignation from the office of Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on.

Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. was Cardinal Rode on March 4, 2013 drawn as assistant to the Camerlengo (representing the cardinal deacons ). He belonged to a Particular Congregation, which regulated child needs during the period of vacancy.

Memberships in congregations and councils of the Curia

  • Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
  • Congregation for Bishops
  • Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
  • Congregation for Catholic Education
  • Pontifical Council for Culture
  • Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
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