Giovanni Perrone

Giovanni Perrone (11 March 1794 - 26 August 1876) was an Italian theologian born in Chieri (Piedmont). [CathEncy|wstitle=Giovanni Perrone]

He studied theology at Turin and at the age of 21 went to Rome, where he joined the Society of Jesus. In 1816 he was sent as professor of theology to Orvieto, and in 1823 was appointed to a similar post in the Collegium Romanum. From Ferrara, where he was rector of the Jesuit College after 1830, he returned to his teaching work in Rome, being made head of his old college in 1850. He took a leading part in the discussions which led up to the promulgation of the "dogma of the Immaculate Conception" (1854), and from 1869 was prominent on the Ultramontane side in the Vatican Council. His numerous dogmatic works are characteristic of orthodox modern Roman theology. They include "Praelectiones theologicae, quas in Collegio Romano S. J. habebat Joannes Perrone". (9 vols., Rome, 1835 sqq.), "Praelectiones hierologicae in compendium redactae" (4 vols., Rome, 1845), "Il Hermesianismo" (Rome, 1838), "Il Protestantismo e la regola di fede" (3 vols., 1853), "De divinitate D. N. Jesu Christi" (3 vols., Turin, 1870).

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NAME=Perrone, Giovanni
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH=11 March 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH=Chieri
DATE OF DEATH=28 August 1876
PLACE OF DEATH=Castelgandolfo