Luigi Raimondi

Cardinal Luigi Raimondi ( born October 25, 1912 in Acqui, Province of Alessandria, Italy, † June 24, 1975 in Vatican City ) was a Vatican diplomat and later became a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Luigi Raimondi studied in Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy and received on 6 June 1936, the sacrament of Holy Orders. After further study, he became in 1938 secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Guatemala. From 1942 to 1949 he was a member of the Apostolic Delegation to the United States from 1949 to 1953, he worked as a counselor for the Inter Nunciature in India.

On December 24, 1953, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Titular Archbishop of Tarsus and Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, and apostolic delegate for the West Indies. He received his episcopal consecration Adeodato Cardinal Giovanni Piazza OCD on 31 January 1954. 1957 he was Apostolic Delegate in Mexico. From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council. 1967 Pope Paul VI appointed him. apostolic envoy to the United States. On March 5, 1973, he took it as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in the College of Cardinals, and appointed him on 21 March of the same year the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Cardinal Luigi Raimondi died on 24 June 1975 in the Vatican and was buried in the crypt of his family in Acqui Terme.