Adeodato Giovanni Piazza

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Adeodato Cardinal Piazza (1953)

Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza OCD (born September 30, 1884 in Vigo de Cadore , Belluno province , Italy , † November 30, 1957 in Rome ) was Archbishop and Patriarch of Venice .

Life

Adeodato Giovanni Piazza stepped 1897 into the Carmelite Order and studied in Treviso , Venice and Brescia the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology . He received on 19 December 1908, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a lecturer in the training of religious offspring. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza took part in the First World War as a chaplain . From 1919 to 1923 he was prior of the convents in Brescia, Verona and Adro . From 1923 to 1925 he worked as the secretary of the superior general in Rome, and from 1925 to 1930 he held the office of general procurator.

Pope Pius XI appointed him Archbishop of Benevento in 1930 . The episcopal ordination received Adeodato Giovanni Piazza on 24 February 1930 in the Church of Santa Teresa al Corso d'Italia in Rome by Cardinal Basilio Pompili , Bishop of Velletri ; Co- consecrators were Cardinal Raffaele Carlo Rossi , Secretary of the Consistorial Congregation , and Pio Marcello Bagnoli , Bishop of Marsi . In 1935 the Pope installed him as Patriarch of Venice, and on December 13, 1937, he accepted him into the College of Cardinals as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Prisca . Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza attended the conclave of 1939 . In 1940 he became consistorial secretary of the curia . Pope Pius XII elevated him to Cardinal Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto in 1949 . Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza represented the Pope at several celebrations as a papal legate , u. a. at the opening of the 1st General Assembly of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean in 1955 in Rio de Janeiro . He died on November 30, 1957 in Rome and was buried in the local Carmelite Church of Santa Teresa al Corso d'Italia .

literature

  • Mario Caprioli: Bio-bibliografia sul cardinale Adeodato Giovanni Piazza OCD (1884–1957). Teresianum, Rome 1998.
  • Giovanni Urbani: Il Cardinale Adeodato G. Piazza. Fondazione Giorgio Cini , Venice 1958.
  • Giovanni Cardinal Piazza , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/1958 of January 13, 1958, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Juan Landázuri Ricketts : A 40 años de Río de Janeiro . CELAM, Santafé de Bogotá 1995 (contribution to the 25th general assembly of CELAM in May 1995 in Mexico City, Spanish).

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predecessor Office successor
Luigi Lavitrano Archbishop of Benevento
1930–1935 		Agostino Mancinelli
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine Patriarch of Venice
1935–1948 		Carlo Agostini
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi OCD Secretary of the Consistorial Congregation
1948–1957 		Marcello Cardinal Mimmi
Enrico Cardinal Sibilia Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
1949–1957 		Marcello Cardinal Mimmi
Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster OSB Chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference
1953–1954 		Maurilio Cardinal Fossati
personal data
SURNAME Piazza, Adeodato Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piazza, Adeodato Giobanni Cardinal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Patriarch of Venice
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vigo de Cadore , Belluno Province , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1957
Place of death Rome