Vincenzo Fagiolo

Cardinal Vincenzo Fagiolo ( born February 5, 1918 in Segni, Rome Province, Italy, † 22 September 2000 in Rome) was Bishop of Chieti and later Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Vincenzo Fagiolo received his theological and philosophical education in Segni, Anagni and Rome. He earned his doctorate at the Pontifical Lateran Athenaeum both in Catholic theology and in canon law, and received on March 6, 1943, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then worked as a community and Deaf pastors, teachers and Prosynodalrichter in Rome. He took in the years 1962 to 1965 as an expert at the Second Vatican Council and in part in 1968 Auditor of the Roman Rota.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 20 November 1971 for the Bishop of Chieti. The bishop ordained by Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri Vincenzo Fagiolo on 19 December of the same year in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of L' Aquila, Costantino Stella, and the Bishop of Segni, Luigi Maria Carlim.

Account of its activities during the Second World War, which led to the rescue of many persecuted Jews, Fagiolo in 1983 honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

On April 8, 1984, Pope John Paul II appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, 1990 President of the Pontifical Council for the interpretation of legal texts and Head of the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia. On November 26, 1994, he took it as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Teodoro on the College of Cardinals. In December of the same year he resigned the office of President of the Council for the interpretation of legal texts for reasons of age.

Vincenzo Fagiolo died on 22 September 2000 in Rome and was buried in the Cathedral of Chieti.