Marcello Mimmi

Marcello Cardinal Mimmi ( born July 18, 1882 in Poggio di Castel San Pietro Terme, Province of Bologna, Italy, † March 6, 1961 in Rome) was archbishop of Naples and later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Marcello Mimmi received his theological and philosophical studies at the Seminary of Bologna and received on 23 December 1905, the sacrament of Holy Orders. From 1905 to 1930 he served on the faculty of the seminary of Bologna and worked next as a church pastor. As of July 1916 Mimmi served as military chaplains for prisoners of war, before he was discharged from the army in early 1919. Late twenties, he headed the Regional Seminar of Romagna.

1930 Pope Pius XI appointed him. Bishop of Crema. The bishop He was ordained on July 25, 1930 by Giovanni Cardinal Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano. Due to his commitment to the poor population of Crema called Mimmi soon bishop of the poor. In 1933 he became Archbishop of Bari. Pope Pius XII. appointed him in 1952 as Archbishop of Naples, and took him a year later as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Callisto in the College of Cardinals to. Marcello Mimmi led several Papal Legations in Italy and abroad. In 1957 he became secretary of the Consistorial and put the management of the Archdiocese of Naples in the following year low. In 1958 he was elevated to Cardinal Bishop of Sabina -Poggio Mirteto. Cardinal Mimmi also took part in the conclave in 1958, in which Pope John XXIII. was chosen.

Marcello Mimmi died on March 6, 1961 in Rome and was buried in the Cathedral of Sabina. After his death, numerous obituaries were published, including John XXIII. and Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro, the particularly praised his modest lifestyle.