Luís d’Andrea

Luís d' Andrea, OFM Conv, actually Luigi d' Andrea ( born February 23, 1934 in Albano, Rome Province, Italy, † September 8, 2012 in Anzio, Roma Province ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão.

Life

Luís d' Andrea visited after the end of the Second World War, the Little Seminary in Cave. At age 17 he joined the Congregation of the Friars Minor in Piglio, one of the oldest monasteries of the Friars Minor Conventual. On October 4, 1952, he made ​​his profession and studied in Rome Catholic theology and philosophy. On 19 December 1959 he was ordained priest. He studied pastoral theology and parapsychology. In 1961 he was rector of the seminary in Cave. In 1966 he took over the pastorate at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Viterbo.

As a result of the Second Vatican Council, he took in 1968 with three other brothers at one evangelism program in Zé Doca, Maranhão, instead. He remained there for 15 years. In São Luís, he oversaw four years the Franciscan seminary Infant Jesus of Prague.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on October 29, 1987 Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão and donated him on January 6, 1988 at St. Peter's Episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Eduardo Martínez Somalo Curia and Giovanni Battista Re. His episcopal motto was ' Justice and pax ( " Justice and Peace" ).

On March 19, 2010 Benedict XVI accepted. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to. He last lived in the Franciscan convent in Fortaleza.