Everything about Piero Marini totally explained
Piero Marini (born
13 Jan 1942) is a
Roman Catholic archbishop, currently serving as the
President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, having previously served for 20 years, as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations. He was responsible for the
Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff and worked for
Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor
Pope John Paul II. He was born in Valverde,
Italy and was
ordained a priest of the
Catholic Church on
27 June 1965. He holds a
doctorate in
liturgy from the Benedictine-run College of
Sant’Anselmo (External Link
).
In
1975, Marini began as the personal secretary of
Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the controversial chief architect of the liturgical reforms that followed Vatican II. From
1987 to
2007, Marini was the master of papal liturgical ceremonies, the man who appears at the pope's side in every celebration. He was appointed
Bishop of Martirano on the
19 March 1998 and was ordained bishop on
14 February of that year. On the
29 September 2003 he was appointed
Titular Archbishop of Martirano. Archbishop Marini's innovative approach to pontifical ceremonies sometimes made him the focus of criticism, and in
2005 after the election of
Pope Benedict XVI it was rumored that Marini would be removed from his post and would take up an Italian diocese
(External Link); he reportedly declined the offer, preferring instead to work within the Roman
Curia.
There were rumours that the archbishop was in hospital in late March
2006. No official statement, however, was made. The common belief is that his illness is cardiac related.
On
1 October 2007 after twenty years as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, Pope Benedict appointed Archbishop Marini to the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. This body has the task, according to
Pastor Bonus, of making "
ever better known, loved and served, Our Lord Jesus Christ in his Eucharistic Mystery, as centre of the life of the Church and of its mission for the salvation of the world” through the celebration of International Eucharistic Congresses".
Sources have noted that the timing of Marini’s departure may be linked to the July
2007 decision by Pope Benedict to
liberalise permission for the
Tridentine Mass, the Rite of Mass most commonly used in the Latin Church from 1570 until 1969. Although Marini never took a public position on the move, it's widely known that he's expressed reservations in private. Since it's taken for granted in Rome that Benedict XVI will himself celebrate a Mass according to the old rite in
St. Peter’s Basilica in the near future, the move of Marini may have been a way to avoid putting him in an awkward position when the time comes
(External Link).
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