Antonio Riberi

Antonio Cardinal Riberi ( born June 15, 1897 in Monte Carlo, Monaco; † December 16, 1967 in Rome ) was a Vatican diplomat.

Life

Antonio Riberi received his theological and philosophical studies at the seminary of Cuneo, at the Pontifical Gregorian University and at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome and the Institute of Social Sciences in Bergamo. In 1922 he was ordained priest, came in 1925 in the diplomatic service of the Vatican and worked until 1930 as secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Bolivia. From 1930 to 1934 he was nunciature counselor of the Apostolic Nunciature in Ireland.

On August 13, 1934, he was named by Pope Pius XI. Titular Bishop of Dara and apostolic delegate for the African missions based in Mombasa. He received his episcopal consecration, the Prefect of the Holy Office, Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, on 28 October of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Giuseppe Curia Pizzardo and Carlo Salotti. In the years 1939-1946 coordinated Antonio Riberi the pastoral care of the wounded soldiers in World War II and was in charge of prisoners of war.

From 1946 until his expulsion in 1951, he worked as Apostolic Nuncio in China. He provided the same task in the years 1959 to 1962 in Ireland from 1962 to 1967 in Spain. He participated in the Second Vatican Council and was on 25 June 1967 by Pope Paul VI. taken as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Girolamo della Carita in the College of Cardinals. Antonio Riberi died on 16 December 1967 in Rome and was buried in the crypt of his family in Limone Piemonte -.