Raúl Francisco Primatesta

Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta ( born April 14, 1919 in Capilla del Señor, Argentina, † May 1, 2006 Córdoba) was Archbishop of Córdoba ( Argentina).

Life

Raúl Francisco Primatesta completed his philosophical and theological studies with the licentiate for the subjects of Catholic theology and exegesis of the New Testament at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On 25 October 1942 he received by Archbishop Luigi Traglia the sacrament of Holy Orders. He taught first at the minor seminary of his native diocese of Latin and Greek, before he was appointed at the local seminary professor of dogmatic theology and Biblical theology and the role of the Disciplinary Prefect, later took over the rain.

On June 14, 1957, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Titular Bishop of Tanais and appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata. The bishop He was ordained on August 15, 1957 by José Antonio Plaza, Archbishop of La Plata. Co-consecrators were Adolfo Tortolo and Jorge Mayer. 1961 was Pope John XXIII. Primatesta the line of the Diocese of San Rafael.

In February 1965, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed Archbishop of Córdoba. In 1973, by Paul VI. the recording as cardinal priest with the titular church of Beata Maria Vergine Addolorata a Piazza Buenos Aires in the College of Cardinals.

Pope John Paul II Cardinal entpflichtete Primatesta in November 1998 for reasons of age from his duties as Archbishop of Córdoba.

Primatesta has participated in two conclaves of 1978; the conclave 2005, he did not participate because he had prescribed for the active papal election age limit of 80 years at that time already been exceeded.

Cardinal Primatesta died on 1 May 2006 at his residence in Córdoba.