Mario Rizzi

Mario Rizzi ( born March 3, 1926 in San Giovanni in Persiceto, Province of Bologna, Italy; † 13 April 2012) was a diplomat of the Holy See.

Life

Mario Rizzi, son of a peasant family near Bologna, studied philosophy and Catholic theology and received on 3 October 1948, the ordination. After a study of the canon law, he entered the service of the Roman Curia. From 1982 to 1991 he was Under Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 28 February 1991 Titular Archbishop of Balneoregium and Apostolic Nuncio in Bulgaria. As such, he was the first nuncio, after the fall of the communist regime and the first nuncio since the pontificate of Pope John XXIII .. The Pro - Secretary of the Secretariat of State Angelo Sodano gave him on April 20th of that year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Metodi Dimitrov Stratiev AA, Apostolic Exarch of Sofia, and Benito Cocchi, Bishop of Parma Fontevivo.

He was a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and since 1997, consultant to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. In 1987 he was " master " of the Academiae Latinitati Fovendae. In 1990 he was invested with the rank of Commander in the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem. Pope John Paul II began in 1996 to his resignation.

Writings

  • " De triplici via " immersus in Saint Bonaventure 's "Opera Omnia ", 1976
  • " Nel regno di Bertoldo ", Rome 1976
  • " Diadumena di Dio ", Rome 1982
  • " Catullus Auratus " Certamen Latinitatis, Verona 1988
  • "Il di San Patrizio trifoglio ", Rome 1989
  • " In Laudem Finniae " 1997
  • 8 personal notes on Latin in the post - synodal apostolic exhortation " Sacramentum Caritatis " of the Holy Father Benedict XVI in " Urbe " 2007
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