Edward Cassidy
Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy ( born July 5, 1924 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Cassidy was ordained priest on 23 July 1949. In August 1955, he was attaché at the Inter Nunciature in India. Pope Paul VI. gave him on 21 June 1963 honorary title Surplus secret chamberlain of His Holiness ( Monsignor ) and appointed him on 27 October 1970 Titular Archbishop of Amantia. He received his episcopal consecration Cardinal Secretary of State Jean -Marie Villot on 15 November of the same year. Then Cassidy worked as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Taiwan. After further stops in Bangladesh, South Africa and the Netherlands Cassidy in 1988 appointed to the Vatican Secretariat of State and appointed President of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, a year later.
During the solemn consistory on June 28, 1991 Pope John Paul II took him as a cardinal deacon with the title of Santa Maria in Via Lata diakonia in the College of Cardinals to.
Cassidy drove during his tenure as President of the Council unity preceded by a large number of projects aimed at understanding between religions and denominations. So was on 16 March 1998 at the Vatican a compiled under his direction and signed by John Paul II Declaration will be presented to the Shoah, which was seen as a major milestone in the Christian- Jewish dialogue. Another highlight of his work was the signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation on 31 October 1999 in Augsburg.
In addition, he promoted the convergence and reconciliation between the Catholic and Orthodox Church. Reasons of age, Cassidy took effect on March 3, 2001 back from his office of leadership in Christian Unity Pontifical and returned home to Australia. On 26 February 2002 he was elevated while maintaining its titular church of Cardinal Priest pro hac vice.
Cardinal Cassidy acts today as a pastor in the village of Warabrook in New South Wales. At Conclave 2005, in which Benedict XVI. was elected, he did not participate, as he had at that time already passed the age of 80 and thus lost the right of the active papal election. Thus Cassidy also not participated in the conclave of 2013. He lives in Warabrook in New South Wales.