Annibale Bugnini
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Annibale Bugnini C.M. |
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| Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iran | |
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| See | Diocletiana |
| Appointed | 4 January 1976 |
| Term ended | 3 July 1982 |
| Predecessor | Ernesto Gallina |
| Successor | Giovanni De Andrea |
| Other posts | Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana |
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| Ordination | 26 July 1936 by Alcide Giuseppe Marina |
| Consecration | 13 February 1972 by Pope Paul VI |
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14 June 1912 Civitella del Lago, Umbria |
| Died | 3 July 1982 (aged 70) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Previous post | Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1969-1976) |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Annibale Bugnini, C.M. (14 June 1912 – 3 July 1982) was a Roman Catholic prelate. Ordained in 1936 and named archbishop in 1972, he was secretary of the commission that worked on the reform of the Catholic liturgy that followed the Second Vatican Council. Critics of the changes made to the Catholic Mass and other liturgical practices before and after Vatican II consider him a controversial figure. He held several other posts in the Roman Curia and ended his career as papal nuncio to Iran, where he acted as an intermediary during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 – 1981.
Annibale Bugnini was born in Civitella del Lago in Umbria. In 1928 he began his theological studies with the Congregation of the Mission and was ordained a priest on 26 July 1936.
He completed his doctorate in sacred theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in 1938 with a dissertation entitled De liturgia eiusque momento in Concilio Tridentino
He spent ten years in parish work in a suburb of Rome. In 1947 Bugnini became involved in the production of the missionary publications of his order and became the first editor of Ephemerides Liturgicæ, a scholarly journal dedicated to the reform of the Catholic liturgy. Starting in 1949, he taught Liturgical Studies at the Pontifical Urban College (now the Pontifical Urban University). He later became a professor at the Pontifical Lateran University.
On 28 May 1948, Pope Pius XII appointed Bugnini Secretary to the Commission for Liturgical Reform, which created a revised rite for the Easter Vigil in 1951 and revised ceremonies for the rest of Holy Week in 1955. The Commission also made changes in 1955 to the rubrics of the Mass and Office, suppressing many of the Church's octaves and a number of vigils, and abolishing the First Vespers of most feasts. In 1960 the Commission modified the Code of Rubrics, which led to new editions of the Roman Breviary in 1961 and the Roman Missal in 1962.
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