BACCINELLI, GIUSEPPE. - Discalced Carmelite, in religion Bernardino di S. Teresa, missionary and bishop; a native of Rome (15 March 1807), where he professed on 8 Dec. 1824; he went to Malabar in 1833, where he was rector of the Syro-Malabar seminary of Verapoly (1833-36 and 1839-46) and parish priest of Verapoly (1835) and of Cunemao (1836-39). When, in 1845, Malabar was divided into three vicariates (Verapoly, Mangalore, Quilon), he was appointed pro-vicar of Quilon (1847). From 1853 he was coadjutor of the apostolic vicar of Verapoly and administrator of Quilon, until 1859, when he assumed the government of Verapoly with the title of archbishop of Farsala. To promote the education of the native clergy, he united the small Syro-Malabar seminaries into a central seminary at Puthenpally (1866); he introduced the use of popular missions and spiritual exercises and erected a regular Third Order among the native clergy according to the Carmelite rule (1855, 1860). He died at Verapoly on 5 Sept. 1868.

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BIBL.: Mackenzie, Hist. of Christianity in Travancore, in Travancore State Manual, 2 (1904), p. 198 ff.; Ambrosius a S. Teresa, Hierarch. Carm., IV, Rome 1939, pp. 338-45; id., Nomenclator Mission. C. D., ibid. 1944, p. 71.

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