Francesco Cavina – Wikipedia

Francesco Cavina (Faenza, February 17, 1955) is an Italian Catholic Bishop, from 26 June 2019 Emeritus Bishop of Carpi.

He was born in Faenza, a bishop’s seat in the province of Ravenna, on February 17, 1955. He lives with his family in San Lorenzo di Lugo, in the diocese of Imola.

Training and priestly ministry [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

He performs gymnasial studies in the diocesan seminary in Imola, followed by high school and theological ones in the regional seminary of Bologna.

On May 15, 1980 he ordered presbyter, in the Cathedral of San Cassiano in Imola, by Bishop Luigi Dardani. After the ordination he is the Vicerettore of the Regional Seminary of Bologna, from 1980 to 1984.

In 1981 he obtained his license in dogmatic theology. He continued his studies in Rome in the Almo Collegio Capranica and the Pontifical Lateran University, from 1985 to 1987, obtaining the doctorate in canon law.

From 1987 to 1996 he was the assistant of young people of Catholic Action and parish collaborator at the parish of Sant’Agata in Imola; From 1990 to 1993, defender of the bond and judge at the Flaminio court of Bologna; From 1991 to 1995, Vice Chancellor Episcopal and in 1995 Episcopal Chancellor. In 1991 he became canon of the Imola cathedral. From 1993 to 2011 he held the position of judge at the Flaminio Court of Bologna.

From 1996 to 2011 he carries out the job of Officiale of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, at the section for relations with the States.

He teaches at the “Higher Institute of Religious Sciences to the Apolloner” (ISSRA) of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

Episcopal ministry [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

On November 14, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI appoints him bishop of Carpi ^[first] ; It happens to Elio Tinti, halving for aged limits. On January 22, 2012 he received the episcopal ordination, in the Cathedral of Imola, from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, co-convinced the archbishop Dominique Mamberti and the bishop Tommaso Ghirelli. On February 5 he takes possession of the diocese.

In May 2012 he visited the places of the diocese hit by the earthquake several times, comforts the population and addresses an appeal to the help for the diocese most affected by the event. On June 26 he received in San Marino di Carpi and Rovereto di Novi Pope Benedict XVI on visiting the earthquake victims. In the following days, twenty Swiss guards offer their help in support of the population affected by the earthquake. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} In this regard, the deputy commander of the body of the Papal Swiss Guard Christoph Graf will declare:

“Captain Lorenzo Merga and many other members of the body know the current bishop of Carpi, Monsignor Francesco Cavina, since he worked in the secretariat of state. They proposed to get at his disposal for a few days and to serve in his diocese ” ^[7]

In the diocese, it establishes a fund to promote entrepreneurial ideas “which, due to the long economic crisis, are excluded from the bank credit system for reasons related to the lack of guarantees or to situations of precariousness, but which intend to become economically self -sufficient and interact in the social fabric and economic through the exercise of a new or already existing autonomous work ” ^[8] .

On May 14, 2015 he received the international “Free to grow” international prize at the Finanza Salone of the Finance Guard of Rome ^{[9] [ten] [11] [twelfth]} conferred by the association “La Caramella good” with the following motivation:

“Already officed at the Secretariat of State of the Holy See today Bishop of the diocese of Carpi immediately showed a sincere proximity to young people, also supporting youth entrepreneurship projects and welcoming enthusiasm and participation of collaboration and moments of reflection related to the phenomenon of Abuses on minors, thus embracing, with paternal proximity, the important activity of contrasting pedophilia conducted by “La Caramella Buon Onlus” ”

From 1st to 4th April 2016 he visits the Christian refugees of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan bringing 100,000 euros of aid donated directly by Pope Francis ^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]} ; He then repeated the journey in September of the same year and in March 2017. On March 5, 2021 on the occasion of the journey of Pope Francis in Iraq he defines Christians of those territories “example for churches in the West” ^[19]

On 27 May 2016 he inaugurated in San Giacomo Roncole, in the municipality of Mirandola, a stele in memory of the victims of the earthquake of 20 and 29 May 2012. ^{[20] [21] [22]}

On June 23, 2016 it announced that the Cathedral of Carpi, closed after the 2012 earthquake, will be reopened to worship on March 25, 2017 in the presence of the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin ^[23] .

On February 28, 2017 he announced that Pope Francis will go to a pastoral visit to the diocese of Carpi on Sunday 2 April 2017, with the following words: «I am pleased to announce the pastoral visit that the Holy Father will make to our diocese on April 2, 2017 and for This deeply I thank his holiness Francesco who comes to meet a Church that is making a significant journey of faith and who lives a moment of hope after the consequences of the 2012 earthquake “” ^{[24] [25] [26] [27]} .

On April 18, 2018 he intercedes at the Holy See making the meeting possible between Pope Francis and Thomas Evans, father of little Alfie by stating that the case “had the merit of awakening the consciences of many, Christians and lay people, who expressed theirs concern for the fate of man ” ^{[28] [29] [30] [thirty first] [32] [33] [34]} .

On May 5, 2019 he inaugurates in Carpi, in the presence of Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve and President of the CEI, and of the civil, military and religious authorities, the reopening of the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art “Cardinal Rodolfo Pio di Savoy “, closed following the 2012 earthquake ^{[35] [36] [37] [38] [39]} .

On June 26, 2019 Pope Francis welcomed his renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese ^{[40] [41] [42] [43] [44]} ; The archbishop of Modena-Nonanto Erio Castellucci is at the same time appointed apostolic administrator of the diocese, who succeeds him as an ordinary bishop on December 7, 2020.

On September 21, 2019 he presided over the solemn Holy Mass on the occasion of the reopening of the Cathedral of Mirandola, restored and reopened the cult after the closure occurred following the 2012 earthquake ^{[45] [forty six] [47] [48] [49] [50]} .

On November 10, 2022 the Municipality of Mirandola conferred on him the civic merit for “the commitment made in the moral, material and spiritual reconstruction of the Mirandolese community following the 2012 earthquake of 2012”, qualifying it as “a shepherd, who correctly assumed the appellation of “bishop of reconstruction” ” ^{[51] [52] [53]}

Episcopal genealogy is:

• International “Free to grow” of the Onlus “The good candy. Against the abuses on minors”. Rome, 14 May 2015
• Civic merit of the Municipality of Mirandola. Mirandola, 10 November 2022