Gut taught at his alma mater of "Pontificio Sant'Anselmo" from 1930 to 1939, at which time he returned to Switzerland and became a professor at the Einsiedeln Abbey College. On 15 April 1947 he was elected abbot of the Archabbey of Maria Einsiedeln, receiving the traditional episcopalbenediction of new abbots from Archbishop Filippo Bernardini on the following 5 May. On 24 September 1959, Gut was elected as the fourth Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation. From 1962 to 1965 he attended the Second Vatican Council.[2]
Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal Deacon of San Giorgio al Velabro in the consistory of 26 June the same year in advance of naming him prefect of Congregation of Rites on the following 29 June. Along with prefect of rites, Gut also assumed in 1968 the position of president of the consilium for liturgical reform, of which the Benedictine abbot was an advocate. He later resigned as abbot primate of the Benedictine Confederation on 8 September 1967. With the dissolution of the Congregation of Rites, the cardinal became prefect of the newly established Congregation for Divine Worship on 7 May 1969.[4]
Gut died in Rome at the age of 73. He is buried in Archabbey of Maria Einsiedeln.[5][6]
References
^Holzherr, Georg (17 December 1970). "Kardinal Benno Gut zum Gedenken". Schweizer Kirchenzeitung (in German). 138: 725–726.
^Engelbert, Pius (2015). Sant'Anselmo in Rome. Collegeville: Liturgical Press. p. 296. ISBN9780814637135.
^Bischof, Franz Xaver (2002). Die Bischöfe der deutschsprachigen Länder 1945-2001 (in German). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. p. 591. ISBN9783428106844.