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Antuan Ilgit (born in 1972, Hersbruck, Germany) is a Turkish Catholic Jesuit priest serving the Catholic Church in Turkey as Vicar General and Chancellor of the Vicariate of Anatolia. He was named an Auxiliary Bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Anatolia on 28 August 2023.[1]

Biography

Antuan Ilgit is a Jesuit of Turkish descent in the Euro-Mediterranean Province of the Society of Jesus, which he entered in 2005. Before joining the Society of Jesus, in 1994 he received a four-year degree in Public Administration from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Gazi University (Ankara). After the two-year novitiate in Genoa he pronounced his first vows, becoming the first Jesuit of Turkish citizenship. In 2010 ordained a priest by Cardinal Giovanni Layolo at the Gesù Church in Rome, and since 2013 he has dual citizenship, Turkish and Italian.[2]

After earning his Bachelor of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he did a year of studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and obtained a license in moral theology and bioethics at the Alphonsian Academy. His thesis “A Comparison between Issues Related to the Beginning of Life in Turkish Bioethics and the Teaching of the Catholic Church” considered issues regarding abortion, contraception, IVF, and the use of embryonic stem cells based on research analysing Turkish laws regulating biomedical research, statements of the Union of Turkish Medical Association, and the decisions and studies of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. He also holds an M.A. in Health Care Ethics from Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA). In 2012, he was nominated for membership in Alpha Sigma Nu, the international academic Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. After his graduation with distinction, he was nominated for the Alpha Epsilon Lambda National Honor Society - Omega Chapter at the Saint Joseph’s University. He earned his doctoral degree in Moral Theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (Chestnut Hill, MA) with a dissertation entitled “Muslim and Catholic Perspectives on Disability in the Contemporary Context of Turkey: A Proposal for Muslim-Christian Dialogue” mentored by Rev. James T. Bretzke, S.J., S.T.D.

From September 2020 to April 2021, he did his Third Probation (final year of Jesuit formation in Salamanca, Spain. On November 19, 2023 in Ankara he made Solemn Profession in the Society of Jesus.

References

  1. ^ "Rinunce e nomine". press.vatican.va. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  2. ^ "Roma. Padre Ilgit, un gesuita turco-italiano - GESUITInews". 24 January 2013.
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