Luigi Maglione
| Styles of Luigi Cardinal Maglione | |
|---|---|
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Caesarea (titular see) |
Luigi Cardinal Maglione (Casoria, province of Naples, March 2, 1877 – August 23, 1944) was the Cardinal Secretary of State in the Roman Curia from 1939 until 1944.
On September 1, 1920 he was appointed as titular Archbishop of Caesarea, Palestine and apostolic nuncio to Switzerland. In 1926, he was appointed nuncio to France, and was made a Cardinal Priest in the consistory of 1935.
Maglione was one of the cardinal electors in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII. He was appointed by Pope Pius few days after his election as Cardinal Secretary of State.
His tenure as Cardinal Secretary of State included most of World War II and The Holocaust, and much of his work is documented in the 11 volumes of the Vatican's wartime documents, Actes et Documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.
Maglione died before the end of the World War II on the 23rd August 1944. After his death no Cardinal Secretary of State was appointed until the election, in October 1958, of the new Pope John XXIII.
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