Gustavo Testa

Cardinal Gustavo Testa ( born July 28, 1886 in Boltiere, Bergamo Province, Italy, † February 28, 1969 in Rome) was a diplomat and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Gustavo Testa studied at several universities of Rome, the subjects of philosophy and Catholic theology. He received on 28 October 1910, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a parish pastor and high school teacher in the Diocese of Bergamo. In 1920 he entered the service of the Vatican Secretariat of State, and was for an initial period of three years secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Austria. In the years 1923 and 1924 he served as Apostolic Visitor in the region of the Ruhr and Saar. 1925 Pope Pius XI appointed him. advisor to a mission with specific tasks in Peru, 1927, employees of the Nunciature in Bavaria. From 1929 to 1934, Gustavo Testa consultant to the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy.

In 1934 he received by Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster episcopal ordination. The Pope appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Egypt, Arabia, Eritrea, Abyssinia and Palestine. Pope Pius XII. appointed Gustavo Testa 1948 apostolic delegate for Jerusalem, Palestine, Trans-Jordan and Cyprus, 1953, he entrusted him with the management of the Apostolic Nunciature in Switzerland. Pope John XXIII. took Gustavo Testa in December 1959 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Girolamo dei Croati in the College of Cardinals in 1962 and appointed him Secretary of the secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and the Pro- President for the special administration of the Holy See. Gustavo Testa represented as legate to the Pope at the International Eucharistic Congress in Munich in 1960. He participated in the years 1962-1965 at the Second Vatican Council. He died on 28 February 1969 in Rome and was buried in Bergamo.

Honors

• 1960: Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1963: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic