Angelo Dell'Acqua

Cardinal Angelo Dell'Acqua ( born December 9, 1903 in Milan, Italy, † August 27 1972 in Lourdes ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Angelo Dell'Acqua, son of a working class family in Milan received, by the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Eugenio Tosi, on May 9, 1928, the sacrament of Holy Orders in Milan. He was first secretary of Cardinal Tosi. From 1929 to 1931 he studied canon law at the Gregorian University in Rome and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Istanbul and thus Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli employee, who later became Pope John XXIII .. In 1934 he became rector of the Seminary of the Diocese of Rome. In 1938 he was working for the Vatican Secretariat of State. In 1950 he was one of the secretaries for extraordinary affairs. On 18 Feb. 1953 he was appointed as substitutes for ordinary affairs, and in 1954 appointed ex officio proceedings in the Vatican Secretariat of State. As the successor of Giovanni Battista Montini, he was a close confidant of Pope Pius XII ..

1958 he was appointed by Pope John XXIII. Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon. The episcopal ordination donated to him on December 27, 1958, Pope John XXIII. itself as well as the Bishops Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon and Gioacchino Muccin. He was a Council Father of the Second Vatican Council.

In 1967 he became Pope Paul VI. on a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo in the College of Cardinals and appointed him as the first president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

He was in 1968 Cardinal Vicar, so the Pope in his role as Bishop of Rome deputy, and in 1970 as a successor of Benedetto Aloisi Masella Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. He was with Papal Delegate at the funeral of Senator Robert Kennedy on June 8, 1968.

Honors

  • 1953: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • 1953: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1954: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • 1965: Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique
  • Grand Silver Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • Honorary doctorates from Loyola University, University of Chicago and Fordham University (all 1968)
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