Ernesto Ruffini
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini ( born January 19, 1888 in San Benedetto Po, Mantova, Italy, † June 11, 1967 in Palermo) was Archbishop of Palermo.
Life
Ruffini attended the seminary of Mantua, studied at the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical College in Milan and the Angelicum in Rome Catholic theology and received on June 10, 1910 in Mantua, the sacrament of Holy Orders. After further studies in Rome, he held academic and curial offices, among other things, he was secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities.
On October 11, 1945, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Archbishop of Palermo. The bishop He was ordained on December 8, 1945 in Rome by Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo. On February 18, 1946 Ruffini was by Pope Pius XII. taken as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Sabina in the College of Cardinals. Ruffini took part in the conclaves of 1958 and 1963 and was a participant in the Second Vatican Council, in which he represented a conservative theology in Coetus Internationalis Patrum (along with Alfredo Ottaviani, Giuseppe Siri, Marcel Lefebvre, Michael Browne and others).
Ruffini died on June 11, 1967 in Palermo, and was buried in the church of Santuario Madonna dei Rimedi in Palermo.