Egidio Vagnozzi

Cardinal Egidio Vagnozzi ( born February 26, 1906 in Rome, Italy, † December 26, 1980 ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Egidio Vagnozzi studied in Rome Catholic theology and philosophy. He received on 22 December 1928, the sacrament of Holy Orders and entered after further studies in 1930 in the service of the Vatican Secretariat of State. From 1932 to 1942 he belonged to the staff of the Apostolic Delegation in the United States, from 1942 to 1945 he was an advisor to the Apostolic Nunciature in Portugal, from 1945 to 1947, he took the same task in France come true. In the years 1947 and 1948 he was a member of the staff of the Pontifical Delegation for the preparation for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and India.

1949 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Titular Archbishop of Myra and apostolic envoy to the Philippines, then in 1951 to the local Apostolic Nuncio. Pope John XXIII. certain Egidio Vagnozzi 1958 apostolic envoy to the United States. From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Paul VI. took him in 1967 as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Giuseppe in Via Aurelio in the College of Cardinals, and gave him a year later the office of the Cardinal Prefect of the administration of goods of the Apostolic See. In 1973 he was charged while maintaining its titular church of Cardinal Priest per hac vice.

Egidio Vagnozzi died on December 26, 1980 in Rome and was buried in the cemetery " Campo di Verano ". 1983 led to his bones in his title Diakonia San Giuseppe in Via Aurelio.