Angelo Dell'Acqua

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Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua OSsCA (born December 9, 1903 in Sesto Calende near Milan , † August 27, 1972 in Lourdes ) was a religious priest ( Ambrosian ), curia employee and later curia cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Angelo Dell'Acqua, son of a working-class Milanese family, spent his school days at the episcopal boys' seminary in Monza and then attended the seminary in Milan, where he received his doctorate in theology . He was ordained a deacon on December 19, 1925, and was ordained a priest on May 9, 1926 in the Church of S. Bernardino in Sesto Calende by the Archbishop of Milan, Eugenio Cardinal Tosi  OSsCA . At the same time he joined the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Ambrose and Charles Borromeo , to which the Archbishop of Milan also belonged, and became its secretary. After Tosi's death in 1929, he studied canon law at the Gregoriana in Rome until 1931 and, after receiving his doctorate again, entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See and appointed papal secret chamberlain . He was sent to Istanbul as secretary of the Apostolic Delegation , where he worked for Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , later Pope John XXIII, who was then active as an Apostolic Delegate in Turkey. In 1935 Angelo Dell'Acqua returned to Rome and became rector of the Pio Romeno Romanian College . In 1936 he was appointed papal house prelate . From 1938 he worked for the Vatican Secretariat of State , where he during the Second World War, the Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione and his deputy Giovanni Battista Montini , zuarbeitete, who later became Pope Paul VI.. Just one week after the Vatican archives were opened in March 2020, documents were found which, according to Hubert Wolf , show that Dell'Acqua questioned information about the murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany in 1942, using anti-Semitic stereotypes. Also in the autumn of 1943, during the German actions against the Jews in Rome , he expressed himself angry internally about the high priority that the fate of the Italian Jews had in the daily work of the State Secretariat at that time. In 1950 he was appointed associate undersecretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs and on February 18, 1953 as a substitute for the State Secretariat for ordinary ecclesiastical affairs and secretary for ciphers . In 1954 he was appointed as the successor of Montini as a substitute for the Vatican State Secretariat and as such was a close confidante of Pope Pius XII.

In 1958 Pope John XXIII appointed him. the Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon . The episcopal ordination received his December 27, 1958, the Pope himself; Co-consecrators were the bishops Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon and Gioacchino Muccin . Dell'Acqua was instrumental in the preparation of the Second Vatican Council on the part of the Roman Curia and took part in its deliberations as a council father.

In 1967 Pope Paul VI took it. as cardinal priest with the titular church Santi Ambrogio e Carlo in the college of cardinals and appointed him first prefect of the prefecture for the economic affairs of the Holy See . Cardinal Dell'Acqua participated in the Synods of Bishops in 1967, 1969 and 1971. In 1968 he became cardinal vicar, i.e. the Pope's deputy in his capacity as Bishop of Rome , and in 1970 as the successor to Benedetto Aloisi Masella, archpriest of the Patriarchal Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano . He attended the funeral of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 8, 1968 , as papal envoy .

Angelo Dell'Acqua was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of his birthplace Sesto Calende after his death on a pilgrimage to Lourdes . In 1997 his remains were transferred to the provost church of S. Bernardino in Sesto Calende.

Honors

literature

  • Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals. 1846-2012. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11037077-5 , p. 402 f.
  • Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1972 of October 2, 1972, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Angelo Dell'Acqua  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Wolf u. a .: The Pope, who knew and was silent. In: Die Zeit No. 18/2020, April 23, 2020, p. 13 f. (online) , here: p. 14. Different: Michael F. Feldkamp , Kampf gegen Dummies, in: Die Tagespost No. 19, April 30, 2020, p. 11, (online)
predecessor Office successor
Giovanni Battista Montini Substitute at the Vatican State Secretariat
1953–1967 		Giovanni Benelli
--- Prefect for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
1967–1968 		Egidio Cardinal Vagnozzi
Cardinal Luigi Traglia Cardinal Vicar
1968–1972 		Ugo Cardinal Poletti
Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica
1970–1972 		Ugo Cardinal Poletti
personal data
SURNAME Dell'Acqua, Angelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dell'Acqua, Cardinal Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Sesto Calende
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1972
Place of death Lourdes