Silvio Oddi

Silvio Angelo Pio Cardinal Oddi ( born November 14, 1910 in Morfasso, province of Piacenza, Italy, † 29 June 2001 Corte Maggiore, Italy ) was a Vatican diplomat and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi received after theological studies in Rome and Piacenza on 21 May 1933, the sacrament of Holy Orders. After three more years of study he entered in 1936 in the diplomatic service of the Vatican. From 1936 to 1939 he was secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Iran, from 1939 to 1945, he provided the same task in Syria and Lebanon 1945-1948 in Egypt, and from 1948 to 1951 in France. In the years 1951-1953 he was responsible for the management Apostolic Nunciature in Yugoslavia.

1953 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Titular Archbishop of Mesembria and apostolic delegate to Jerusalem, Palestine, Trans-Jordan and Cyprus. The episcopal ordination Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli gave him, the future Pope John XXIII. In 1957 Silvio Oddi Apostolic Internuncio in Egypt in 1962 nuncio in Belgium and in Luxembourg Internuncio. From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council. In 1969, Pope Paul VI. as cardinal deacon with the title of Sant'Agata dei Goti diakonia in the College of Cardinals on, put him in charge of the shrine in Loreto and appointed him Papal Legate for the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. From 1979 to 1986 he was Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. 1989 Pope John Paul II sent him as papal envoy to the funeral ceremony for the Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

Silvio Oddi died on 29 June 2001 in Corte Maggiore and was buried in the old parish church of Morfasso.

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