Eugenio Corecco
Eugenio Corecco was a Swiss bishop of the diocese of Lugano. He was a notable 20th-century canonist who wrote about the philosophy, [theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law|theology of canon law].
Biography
Son of Peter, born in Bodio and Margaret Beffa of Airolo, he was ordained priest on October 2, 1955, studied in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University to Munich, where he received his PhD in canon law and Fribourg, where in 1969 was appointed professor of canon law.In 1982, shortly before the publication of the new Code of Canon Law, exhibited his critical comments to John Paul II, the Pope called him to Rome to be part of a committee that assists him in the examination of the code, prior to its promulgation. Appointed consultant to the Committee on the interpretation of CIC, Eugenio Corecco holds conferences around the world.
Active in the pastoral, from the years 1960–1970 he worked in Switzerland for the spread of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation. The pope John Paul II on June 5, 1986, made him Bishop of Diocese of Lugano and he was consecrated in Lugano Cathedral on June 29 by bishop Henri Schwery, bishop of the Diocese of Sion, with concelebrating bishops Pierre Mamie and Ernesto Togni.
The April 29, 1992, he founded in Lugano the Institute Academic theology which. in the following year, precisely on November 20, 1993, was elevated by the Holy See to the status of a university faculty of theology – Faculty of Theology of Lugano, giving an opportunity to build in the city of Lugano, USI. However, the FTL did not join USI, choosing instead to remain autonomous.
He died on March 1, 1995, as a result of a rare form of cancer, and was buried in the crypt of Church of the Sacred Heart in Lugano.