Angelo Dolci

Cardinal Angelo Maria Dolci ( born July 12, 1867 in Civitella di Agliano, Italy, † September 13, 1939 ibid ) was Archbishop of Amalfi and later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Angelo Dolci received his theological and philosophical studies at several universities of Rome and in 1890 received the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then took on various duties as a parish priest before he was appointed bishop of Gubbio in 1900. The bishop ordained by Cardinal Francesco Angelo Dolci Satolli. 1906 appointed him Titular Archbishop of Pope Pius X Nazianzus, and apostolic delegate in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. In 1910 he was recalled to Rome in 1911 he received the appointment as Archbishop of Amalfi. In 1914 he was sent to the Pope as apostolic delegate to Constantinople Opel and appointed him Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Syria. In 1922, Angelo Maria Dolci Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium, a year later, he assumed the same task in Romania.

Pope Pius XI. took him on 13 March 1933 as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria to the College of Cardinals. On the same day he resigned from his post as Nuncio to Romania and back was still appointed in the same year Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. In 1936 he was elevated to Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina.

Angelo Dolci took part in the conclave of 1939, in which Pope Pius XII. was chosen. He died on 13 September 1939 in Rome and was buried in his hometown.