Luigi Nazari di Calabiana

Giuseppe Luigi Nazari, Conte di Calabiana ( born July 27, 1808 in Savigliano, Italy, † October 23, 1893 in Milan ) was Archbishop of Milan.

Life and work

Luigi Nazari studied at the seminary of Bra and from 1826 at the University of Turin. On 29 May 1831 he was ordained priest.

After he had refused the appointment at other times, he was appointed by Pope Pius IX. appointed Bishop of Casale Monferrato on 12 April 1847. The bishop He was ordained on June 6th of the same year by Cardinal Ugo Pietro Spinola. Bishop Nazari di Calabiana tied relations with the royal house of Savoy, was appointed in 1848 by King Charles Albert of Sardinia senator. In 1858, he was Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus (1881 Knight Grand Cross ) and later oversaw the heir Umberto I, son of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel II, he also campaigned for an end to discrimination against Jews.

On March 27, 1867, he became the new Archbishop of Milan. Luigi Nazari was thus a difficult post, as his predecessor Carlo Bartolomeo and Paolo Angelo Ballerini Romilli often resulted in conflicts with the local population. The new archbishop initially met with resistance, especially by conservative forces, who did not agree with his willingness to compromise Governance in Casale. In addition, in Milan there was a cholera epidemic. Nazari therefore tried to restore internal peace in the archdiocese.

From 1869 to 1870 he participated as a Council Father at the First Vatican Council. He was one of the few bishops who did not vote for the dogma of papal infallibility. After the Council he was ancient churches in Milan restored, including the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio. He also reformed the curriculum of seminaries and 1878 was the Collegio Lombardo reopen. In the following years the Archbishop numerous religious and charitable organizations supported. To his friends included Luigi Vitali, founder of the Institute for the Blind, and Giulio Tarra, founder of the Institute for the Deaf. He died in 1893 at the age of 85 years and was buried in the cemetery Groppello in the summer residence of the Archbishops of Milan.