Adeodato Giovanni Piazza

Adeodato Cardinal Giovanni Piazza OCD ( born September 30, 1884 in Vigo de Cadore, Belluno, Italy, † November 30, 1957 in Rome) was Archbishop and Patriarch of Venice.

Life

Adeodato Giovanni Piazza entered the Carmelite Order in 1897 and studied in Treviso, Venice and Brescia the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology. He received on 19 December 1908, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a lecturer in the training of religious offspring. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza participated as a chaplain in the First World War. From 1919 to 1923 he was prior of the convents in Brescia, Verona and Adro. In the years 1923-1925 he worked as secretary to the Superior General in Rome, from 1925 to 1930 he performed the duties of the Procurator General.

Pope Pius XI. 1930 appointed him archbishop of Benevento. The bishop ordained Adeodato Giovanni Piazza by Cardinal Basilio Pompilj. 1935 made ​​him the Pope as Patriarch of Venice is a December 13, 1937, he took it as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Prisca on the College of Cardinals. Adeodato Cardinal Giovanni Piazza took part in the conclave of 1939. In 1940 he was Konsistorialsekretär the Curia. Pope Pius XII. 1949 elevated him to cardinal bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto. Adeodato Cardinal Giovanni Piazza represented the Pope at several celebrations as Papal Legate. He died on 30 November 1957 in Rome and was buried in the local Carmelite church of Santa Teresa al Corso d' Italia.

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