Charles Bruzon
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The Honorable Charles Bruzon MP |
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Charles Bruzon
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| Minister for Housing and the Elderly | |
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In office 2011–2013 |
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| Shadow Minister for Housing | |
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In office 2003–2011 |
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| Member of the Gibraltar Parliament | |
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In office 2003–2013 |
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| Personal details | |
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Charles Arthur Bruzon 10 June 1938 Gibraltar |
| Died | 16 April 2013 (aged 74) Gibraltar |
| Nationality | British (Gibraltarian) |
| Political party | Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) |
| Father | Luis Francis Bruzon |
| Residence | Gibraltar |
| Alma mater | Ushaw College |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | Charles Bruzon at the Government of Gibraltar website |
Charles Arthur Bruzon (10 June 1938 – 16 April 2013) was a Gibraltarian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was affiliated with the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP). In the general elections of 2011, he was elected to the Gibraltar Parliament and appointed Minister for Housing and the Elderly.
Despite being the son of a City Councillor and former member of the Legislative Council Luis Francis Bruzon, Bruzon's political vocation came after a religious vocation. In his youth, he studied for six years in the Ushaw College (a Catholic seminary) at Durham University, which he left after being ordained. His family is originally from Genoa.
Bruzon was ordained as a priest 1962. He was sent to Gibraltar and remained there for seven years as curate of the Bishop John Farmer Healy. However, after seven years in office, he began questioning his choice. It was not just a question of celibacy, since he says he fell in love with his future wife over a year after having leaving his clerical post but he was feeling that the church had moved away from people. According to Bruzon, despite having shown sympathy for the personal dilemma of the parish priest, his superiors could do little to speed up the Vatican's dispensation process from priestly obligations, which took eighteen months to be realized.
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