Giovanni Tonucci
Giovanni Tonucci (born 4 December 1941 in Fano, PU, Italy) is an Italian archbishop of the Catholic Church. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1971 until his retirement in 2017.
Diplomatic career
[edit]From 1971 till the end of 1973 his diplomatic career took him to Yaoundé, Cameroon, then, from 1974 to 1976 to the United Kingdom. From July 1976 he was back in Rome, assigned to the Section for General Affairs of the Holy See Secretariat of State where he worked with Agostino Casaroli, until being transferred, in April 1978, to the Section for the Relations with States under Achille Silvestrini. At the end of the 1984 he was assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature in Belgrade, at that time still the Yugoslavia, where he worked until the summer of 1987 when he was transferred to the Nunicature to the United States in Washington.
On 21 October 1989 Tonucci was appointed Titular Archbishop of Torcello and Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia.
He was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1990 by Pope John Paul II,[1] with co-consecrators Msgr. Giovanni Battista Re and Msgr. Miroslav Stefan Marusyn.
On 9 March 1996 he was named the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya.[2]
The role of Permanent Observer Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN Environment and Human Settlements Programs (UNEP/UN–HABITAT) was added the next year.
On 16 October 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway.[3]
Later offices
[edit]On 18 October 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Loreto and Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto.[4] Pope Francis named him Pontifical Delegate for the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua on 8 March 2014,[5] and accepted his resignation from both these positions on 20 May 2017.[6]
Family
[edit]His brother Paolo Maria Tonucci was a missionary in Brazil from 1965 to 1994. He conducted a battle for the rights of the poor people against the military dictatorship, which led to his being characterized as "unworthy" of Brazilian citizenship.[7]
Works
[edit]- Giovanni Tonucci, "God's letter to me – 101 questions and answers on the Bible".
- Giovanni Tonucci, Roberto Ansuini; "Don Paolo". Text by Paolo Tonucci [and oth.], Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano, Grapho 5, 2004.
- Giovanni Tonucci, "Visioni di un pellegrino. Le foto di Mzee Mwenda". Edited in Italian and English, Velar, 2006. ISBN 88-7135-233-5.
- Giovanni Tonucci, Massimo Ciavaglia, "El Vangel cum l'ha scrit San Marc". (dialect of Fano), Ven. Confraternitas Sanctae Mariae Suffragii, Fano, 2007.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ordinazione Episcopale di Dodici Nuovi Presuli" (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 6 January 1990. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVIII. 1996. p. 358.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 16.10.2004" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 18.10.2007" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 08.03.2014" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 29.04.2017" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ (in Italian) [1]
- Additional sources
- "Padova, Tonucci nuovo delegato pontificio per la basilica S. Antonio". La Stampa (in Italian). 10 March 2014.
External links
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- 1941 births
- Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni
- Apostolic nuncios to Bolivia
- Apostolic nuncios to Kenya
- Apostolic nuncios to Denmark
- Apostolic nuncios to Iceland
- Apostolic nuncios to Finland
- Apostolic nuncios to Norway
- Apostolic nuncios to Sweden
- 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
- Permanent Observers of the Holy See to UNEP and UN-HABITAT
- Living people
- Religious leaders from Fano
- 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops