Folia Theologica et Canonica 11. 33/25 (2022)
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246 RECENSIONS Minambres, J. - Ejeh, B. - Púig, F. (a cura di), Studio di diritto del governo e dell ’organizzazione della Chiesa in onore di Mons. Juan Ignacio Arrieta, I—II. Marcianum Press, Venezia 2021, pp. 1496 A number of scholars with significant academic work in the field of sacred sciences have reached their seventieth birthday in 2021-2022. This has led to the publication of a series of collected volumes by prestigious teaching and research centers around the world, which will pay tribute to the scholarly work of these celebrated scholars. Among these is the extensive, two-volume collection of thematic studies on canon law published in Venice by Marcianum Press to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the birth of S.E.R. Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, Secretary of the Pontifical Council of the Code of Canon Law. Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa was bom in Vitoria, Spain, on April 10th 1951. Ele was ordained a priest on August 23rd 1977 as a member of the Community of Priests of the Holy Cross (later Personal Prelature). He obtained his doctorate in canon law and jurisprudence and was professor of canon law, first at the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain), and then as the first Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at the newly established Pontificia Universitä della Santa Croce (Rome) [1984-1993; 1995-1999], a period in which, in collaboration with the distinguished faculty members, he established the institution as a recognized center for the study of canon law. He played a similar key role in the foundation of the Studium Generale Marcianum (Venice) and its development into one of the most renowned institutions for teaching, research and training in canon law, where he was also the first person to head the Faculty of Canon Law, named after Pope Pius X, during its organization in 2003. He was also responsible for the launch of the international scientific periodical on canon law, Ius Ecclesiae, of which he was the first editor-in-chief. He contributed a great effort, both informally and formally, in developing the functioning and recognition of the Institute of Canon Law in Budapest, including the publication of the most recent research results on the history of canon law - achieved within the framework of Pázmány Péter Catholic University - in the periodical Ius Ecclesiae. At the same time, he has held several central ecclesiastical offices (i.e. at the Apostolic Penitentiary, Apostolic Signatura, Congregation for the Clergy, Pontifical Council for the Family, etc.). Since February 15th 2007, he has been Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts; and was consecrated a bishop in 2008. His primary research area is the hierarchical structure of the Church, on which he has published a significant number of scholarly works. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this commemorative volume was enriched with studies by the internationally most respected authors of his
