Giuseppe Beltrami

Cardinal Giuseppe Beltrami ( born January 17, 1889 in Fossano, Cuneo province, Italy, † December 13, 1973 in Rome ) was a Vatican diplomat.

Life

Beltrami studied in Fossano and Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy and was ordained a priest on March 5, 1916. Subsequently, he worked as a military chaplain. After further studies, he joined in 1923 in the service of the Holy See, where he first worked for three years in the Vatican Library, and from 1926 to 1940 at the State Secretariat with the canonization process.

1940 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Titular Archbishop of Damascus and Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala and Ecuador. Further stations of his diplomatic career were Colombia, Lebanon and the Netherlands. Beltrami took part in the years 1962-1965 at the Second Vatican Council. Pope Paul VI. took him in 1967 as a cardinal priest with the pro hac vice levied for the titular church of Santa Maria title Diakonia Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio in the College of Cardinals to. He died on 13 December 1973 in Rome and was buried in the cathedral of his hometown Fossano.