Beniamino Stella

Cardinal Beniamino Stella ( born August 18, 1941 in Pieve di Soligo, Treviso, Italy Province ) is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Beniamino Stella received on 19 March 1966, the ordained priest for the diocese of Vittorio Veneto. After doctoral studies in canon law in 1970, he joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See a. He was from 1983 to 1987 worked at the Pontifical Representations in Santo Domingo and in Zaire, then for the Council for Public Affairs of the Church in the Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and back at the Council for Public Affairs of the Church.

In 1987 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II, Titular Archbishop of Midila and Archbishop Curia in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The episcopal consecration on September 5, 1987 donated by Pope John Paul II himself; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo Curia, and Jean Orchampt, Bishop of Angers. In 1987 he was appointed Pro-Nuncio and Apostolic Delegate in the Central African Republic and Chad and ordered shortly afterwards appointed Apostolic Pro- Nuncio to the Republic of Congo. In 1992 he moved as nuncio to Cuba in 1999 as Nuncio to Colombia.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him in 2007 as President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Pope Francis appointed him on September 21, 2013 as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. On November 30, 2013, was appointed by the Pope as a member of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

In solemn consistory of February 22, 2014 Pope Francis took him as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Santi Cosma e Damiano in the College of Cardinals.

Stella speaks English, French, Spanish and German.

Memberships

• Congregation for Bishops (since 2013)