{"id":3313,"date":"2020-02-25T03:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15.188.244.8.xip.io\/history\/mario-pezzi\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T09:56:27","slug":"mario-pezzi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/history\/mario-pezzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Pezzi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mario Pezzi<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n
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Mario Pezzi was born in Gottolengo (Brescia, Italy), on September 19, 1942, and is the third of five brothers. He entered the seminary of the Comboni Missionaries at 10 years old. After the novitiate, he was sent by the Superiors to Rome to the International Scholasticate and studied Theology at the Pontifical Urban University. He received the priestly ordination on March 19, 1969 and began his PhD in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University with Professor Father Zoltan Alszeghy.<\/p>\n\n

In that same year, he met Kiko and Carmen, \ninitiators of the Neocatechumenal Way, and attended the last \ncatechesis they did in the parish of the Nativit\u00e0 of Rome. In January of 1970, \nhe received the catechesis of the Way in the parish of San Giovanni di \nDio, in which he was ministering and entered in the first neocatechumenal community of this parish. Seeing \nin the Way a hope for the catechumenate in the missions in \nAfrica, especially after the tragic experience of the massacres \namong Christians in Burundi, he obtained permission from his superiors \nto make an experience as an itinerant of the Way in view of the \nmission in Africa. In September of 1970, he interrupted his doctorate studies \nand was sent by Kiko and Carmen to start the Way in two \nparishes of the diocese of Brescia and Milan, and in January of 1971 to the \n parish of San Leone in Catania.<\/p>\n\n

In June of 1971, he was invited by Kiko and Carmen to \nreplace D. Francesco Cuppini, the presbyter who had accompanied them \n since 1968, thus forming part of the team in the periods in which \nthey evangelized in Italy, especially in Rome, and in Florence and Ivrea. In \nthe periods in which Kiko and Carmen were in Spain, \naccompanied by Father Jes\u00fas Bl\u00e1zquez as a presbyter, Father Mario was \nsent to evangelize Lombardy and then to Portugal. In December of \n1981, with a letter from the Superior General of the Combonians, was sent \n as an itinerant Comboni Father to start the Way in Khartoum (Sudan), \nheart of the Comboni missions, and then in March of 1982, \n to Kampala (Uganda). Since then he made numerous trips to Africa, \nvisiting several bishops in Kenya, and families in mission of the \nWay in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Zambia, and Redemptoris Seminaries \n Mater de Kitwe (Zambia), Douala (Cameroon), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), \nGoma (Congo), and Morondava (Madagascar). He also visited several bishops \nfirst in Angola and then in Mozambique to open the Way. He was in \nBangui (Central African Republic) and Bujumbura (Burundi).<\/p>\n\n

Since 1982 he had been called to join the responsible team \nof the Neocatecumenal Way with Kiko and Carmen, full time, \naccompanying them in their work of relationships with the Pope, the Holy See, \nthe bishops, in the steps of the Way, in the convivences of the \nitinerants, and in international travel and meetings, until present \nday. In 1992, the New Comboni superiors invited him to \njoin the Institute again or incardinate in the Diocese \nof Rome. The Cardinal Vicar of Rome Monsignor Camilo \nRuini received him as a itinerant catechist priest of the Diocese of Rome.<\/p>\n\n

With the approval of the Statutes in 2002 ad \nexperimentum, and in 2008 definitively, he has been appointed by the \nHoly See presbyter of the International Team, together with Kiko and Carmen \n(before she passed away).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario Pezzi Mario Pezzi was born in Gottolengo (Brescia, Italy), on September 19, 1942, and is the third of five brothers. He entered the seminary of the Comboni Missionaries at 10 years old. After the novitiate, he was sent by the Superiors to Rome to the International Scholasticate and studied Theology at the Pontifical Urban University. He received the priestly ordination on March 19, 1969 and began his PhD in<\/p>\n

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