Joan Planellas i Barnosell (born 7 November 1955) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been serving as the archbishop of Tarragona since his installation on 4 May 2019. He previously served as a canon on the Girona Cathedral. He was also given the Missionary of Mercy title, that is a group of priests that were designated by the Pope to forgive serious sins normally only reserved to the Holy See. Barnosell became a priest in 28 March 1982.
Joan Planellas Barnosell | |
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| Metropolitan Archbishop of Tarragona | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Tarragona |
| Province | Tarragona |
| Predecessor | Jaume Pujol Balcells |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 28 March 1982 |
| Consecration | 4 May 2019 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joan Planellas Barnosell 7 November 1955 Girona, Spain |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Motto | Spiritus uivenem facit Eclesiampor |
| Coat of arms |  |
Biography
editPlanellas was born in Girona on 7 November 1955. He grew up in Colomers. He studied at the Diocesan Seminary of Girona from 1968 to 1979 and was ordained a priest on 28 March 1982. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1979 to 1981 and in 2003–2004, earning a doctorate in dogmatic theology.[1][2]
He was professor of theology at the Seminary of Girona, director of the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences (1988-1998), rector of the Seminary of Girona (1996-2002), director of the Revista Catalana de Teologia (Catalan Journal of Theology), vice dean of the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia (2010-2015) and its Dean from 2015 to 2019. He also served as parish priest and administrator of various parishes from 1990 to 2019,[2] when he was rector of Jafre, Garrigoles, Colomers, Foixà, and Rupià, and parochial administrator of the Tallada d'Empordà.[3] In 2008, he was appointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in Girona and since 2013 has been a member of its Presbyterian Council.[1]
On 4 May 2019, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Tarragona.[2] His episcopal consecration and installation are scheduled for 8 June.[4] His appointment was unusual in that a priest is rarely made archbishop without having been a bishop, though Francis has made a similar appointment for Lima, Peru, in January 2019.[5]
Catalan
editProponents of Catalan culture and independence welcomed the appointment because a non-Catalan had been rumored a likely appointment and half the bishops in Catalonia are not native to the region.[6] One columnist saw the appointment as a shift from a "stigmatized" conservative view of the Girona clergy as political and separatist and credited Archbishop Juan José Omella of Barcelona with this “brave commitment to the Catalan church".[7]
Planellas' parish church in Jafre flew the banner of Catalan independence from its tower in 2012 to mark the National Day of Catalonia, the Feast of San Martí, to whom the church is dedicated.[a] A local resident, Dolors Caminal,[b] objected that this "promotes a lack of solidarity and hatred toward the rest of our Spanish brothers". She rejected the local bishop's offer to discuss the matter privately. Planellas told a journalist that "the people asked for it" and it had become an annual tradition. He said "Jafre is a town that lives in peace. They complain because they like controversy.... I repeat that the flag is set by the people, not by the parish. It is a thing of the people." As for those who are unhappy: "Let them put the Spanish flag on their house, if they want."[8] This dispute served as the basis for some 2019 headlines that called Panellas a "radical separatist" (separatista radical).[9][10] Church sources described Planellas as "firmly Catalan but not radical".[7]
Writings
editSelected major works:[11]
- L’Església dels pobres» en el Concili Vaticà II (Col·lectània Sant Pacià 105), Barcelona: FTC 2013, 237 pp.; edició castellana, La Iglesia de los pobres en el Concilio Vaticano II, Barcelona: Herder 2014, 299 pp.; edició italiana, La Chiesa dei poveri. La sfida sempre attuale del Concilio Vaticano II, Prefazione di Armand Puig i Tàrrech (I libri di Sant’Egidio), Milano: Mondadori 2015; 279 pp.
- Bisbes, preveres i diaques. Els ministeris ordenats, Litúrgia Bàsica nº 26, Barcelona, Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica 2005, 24 pp.; traducció castellana, Obispos, presbíteros y diáconos. Los ministerios ordenados, Barcelona, Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica 2005, 24 pp.
- La recepción del Vaticano II en los manuales de eclesiología españoles, Ed. Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Serie Teologia nº 111, Roma 2004, 598 pp. (tesi doctoral).
- El Santuari de la Font Santa de Jafre, Col·lecció «Sant Feliu», nº 24, Girona: Gràfiques Cantalozella 2002, 63 pp.
- La maternitat de l’Església. Algunes reflexions per a la recuperació d’aquest concepte a l’Església d’avui, Quaderns de l’Institut Superior de Ciències Religioses de Girona, nº 7, Girona: ISCRG 2000, 51 pp.
Notes
edit- ^ The festivities last for a week and conclude on the feast day. The banner flew from the tower throughout the week.[8]
- ^ Caminal is an artist and wife of the dramatist Albert Boadella who has a long and complicated history of involvement in Catalan politics.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Céspedes, David (4 May 2019). "El mossèn gironí Joan Planellas, nou arquebisbe de Tarragona". Diari de Girona (in Catalan). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Resignations and Appointments, 04.05.2019" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "El capellà gironí Mn. Joan Planellas és nomenat nou Arquebisbe metropolità de Tarragona". Bisbat Girona (in Catalan). 4 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Joan Panellas, un nou arquebisbe català per a Tarragona". Catalunya Religió (in Catalan). 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Vidal, José Manuel (4 May 2019). "Joan Planellas, nuevo arzobispo de Tarragona". Religión Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Villarreal, Roberto; Nef, Andrés (4 May 2019). "La Santa Sede nombra a Joan Planellas como nuevo arzobispo de Tarragona". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ a b Martí, Pep (5 May 2019). "Joan Planellas, l'arquebisbe que es va enfrontar a Boadella per una estelada". Nació Digital (in Catalan). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Un campanario al servicio del independentismo catalán" [A bell tower in the service of the Catalan independence movement]. ABC (in Spanish). 11 September 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Planas, Pablo (4 May 2019). "Bergoglio nombra arzobispo de Tarragona al cura separatista radical del pueblo de Albert Boadella". Liberdad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Santos, Pablo (4 May 2019). "papa Francisco nombra arzobispo a uno de los curas separatistas más sectarios y xenófobos de Cataluña" [Pope Francisco appoints Archbishop to one of the most sectarian and xenophobic separatist priests of Catalonia] (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Els nostres professors: Dr. Joan Planellas Barnosell". Facultat de Teologia (in Catalan). Retrieved 5 May 2019.
