Giuseppe Petrocchi
{{short description|Italian Catholic prelate (born 1948)}}
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Archbishop Emeritus of L'Aquila
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| appointed = 8 June 2013
| enthroned = 7 July 2013
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| term_end = 1 August 2024
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| predecessor = Giuseppe Molinari
| successor = Antonio D'Angelo
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| other_post = Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini (2018–)
| ordination = 14 September 1973
| ordained_by = Marcello Morgante
| consecration = 20 September 1998
| consecrated_by = Silvano Montevecchi
| cardinal = 28 June 2018
| created_cardinal_by = Pope Francis
| rank = Cardinal-Priest
| birth_name = Giuseppe Petrocchi
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| birth_place = Ascoli Piceno, Italy
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| previous_post = Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno (1998–2013)
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| motto = {{lang|la|Ante omnia caritas}} (Above all, love)
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Giuseppe Petrocchi (born 19 August 1948) is an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of L'Aquila from 2013 to 2024. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018.
Life
Giuseppe Petrocchi was born on 19 August 1948 in Ascoli Piceno.
Petrocchi commenced his ecclesial studies in his home diocese on 4 October 1965 where he finished his high school education before being sent to the Pontifico Seminario Romano Maggiore in September 1967. He completed his studies at the Lateran where he obtained a bachelor's degree before pursuing further studies at Sapienza University of Rome and at the University of Macerata.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 14 September 1973 in the church of San Pietro Martire and began work as a teacher and pastor.{{cite press release|publisher=Holy See Press Office|language=it|url= http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/05/20/0374/00807.html|access-date=20 May 2018|date=20 May 2018|title=Annuncio di Concistoro il 29 giugno per la creazione di nuovi Cardinali, 20.05.2018}} Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno on 27 June 1998 and he received episcopal consecration the following 20 September in Ascoli Piceno from Bishop Silvano Montevecchi, the co-consecrators being Bishops Domenico Pecile and Marcello Morgante. He took possession of his diocese on 18 October.
He was appointed Archbishop of L'Aquila on 8 June 2013, took possession the following month,{{cite press release|url= http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/06/08/0365/00826.html|language=it|publisher=Holy See Press Office|access-date=20 May 2018|date=8 June 2013|title= Rinunce e Nomine, 08.06.2013}} and received the pallium from the Pope on 29 June 2013 in Saint Peter's Basilica. On 28 June 2018 Pope Francis made Archbishop Petrocchi a cardinal, assigning him the titular church of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini.{{cite press release |access-date = 28 May 2018 | date= 28 May 2018| language = it| url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/28/0495/01091.html |publisher= Holy See Press Office | title= Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli, 28.06.2018 }}
On 22 September 2018 Petrocchi was appointed a member of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State,{{cite press release | date = 27 April 2019 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/09/22/0674/01469.html | title = Rinunce e nomine, 22.09.2018 | access-date = 27 April 2019 }} of the Congregation for Catholic Education on 6 October 2018,{{cite press release | date = 6 October 2018| publisher = Holy See Press Office | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/10/06/0729/01545.html | title = Rinunce e nomine, 06.10.2018 | access-date = 27 April 2019 }} and of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 27 April 2019.{{cite press release | date = 27 April 2019 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url =http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/04/27/190427c.html | title =Resignations and Appointments, 27.04.2019 | access-date = 27 April 2019 }} In April 2020 he was appointed to head a second commission that was to study the question of the ordination of women to the diaconate.{{Cite web|url=https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/04/pope-creates-new-expert-commission-to-study-women-deacons/|title=Pope creates new expert commission to study women deacons|date=8 April 2020|website=Crux|first=Nicole|last=Winfield|agency=Associated Press |access-date=9 April 2020}}{{cite press release | publisher=Holy See Press Office | access-date = 26 May 2025 | date= 8 April 2020|url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2020/04/08/200408b.html | title= Istitution of a new Study Commission on the female diaconate, 08.04.2020}}
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop on 1 August 2024.{{cite press release | access-date = 2 August 2024 | date = 1 August 2024 | publisher= Holy See Press Office | language = it | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/08/01/0594/01211.html | title = Rinunce e nomine, 01.08.2024 }}
He participated as a cardinal elector in the 2025 papal conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.{{cite web| url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html| title=Cardinal Electors|date=6 May 2025|publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|language=en|access-date=6 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506193115/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html|archive-date=6 May 2025|url-status=live}}
See also
References
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- {{cite web|access-date=14 July 2018|title=Petrocchi Card. Giuseppe|publisher=Holy See Press Office|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_petrocchi_g.html|url-status=live|archive-date=14 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714162106/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_petrocchi_g.html}}
- [http://www.chiesadilaquila.it Diocese of L'Aquila] {{in lang|it}}
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Category:20th-century Italian cardinals
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Category:People from Ascoli Piceno