Lorenzo Antonetti

Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti (born July 31, 1922 in Romagnano Sesia , Novara Province , Italy , † April 10, 2013 in Novara ) was an Italian clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Coat of arms of Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti

Antonetti studied at the seminaries in Novara and Rome trays Catholic theology and philosophy , he was a seminarian at the Capranica College and received in 1945 the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then worked for two years as a parish chaplain in his home diocese. From 1947 to 1951 he continued his university studies and completed a degree in theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) . He received his doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University .

In 1949 he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See and trained at the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy . From 1951 he worked for the Vatican State Secretariat . From 1952 to 1955 he was attaché and secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Beirut , Lebanon , and from 1955 to 1959 he performed the same task at the Nunciature in Caracas , Venezuela . From 1959 to 1963 he was employed in the Department of Special Affairs of the Vatican State Secretariat. Further positions abroad led him to Paris , France and Washington, DC , USA as an advisor .

On February 23, 1968, Pope Paul VI appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Rusellae and Apostolic Nuncio in Honduras and Nicaragua . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Secretary of State Amleto Giovanni Cicognani on May 12 of that year. Co- consecrators were the bishop of Novara , Placido Maria Cambiaghi , and the auxiliary bishop of Novara, Edoardo Piana Agostinetti . From 1973 to 1977 he was pro-nuncio in Kinshasa , Zaire . From 1977 to 1988 he worked as secretary of the goods administration of the Apostolic See APSA, which at that time was under the direction of the Cardinals Villot , Caprio , Casaroli and Rossi . Among other things, he was responsible for the liquidation of the Pontificia Opera di Assistenza (POA) and Opera Nazionale Assistenza Religiosa e Morale agli Operai (ONARMO). He was President of Fondo Assistenza Sanitaria (FAS), member of the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia, the Pontifical Administration of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls and responsible for the dissemination of the new Codex Iuris Canonici in 1983.

In 1988 he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio in France by Pope John Paul II . On June 24, 1995, he was appointed Pro-President of the Goods Administration of the Apostolic See APSA.

On February 21, 1998 Pope John Paul II accepted him as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Sant'Agnese in Agone in the college of cardinals . From February 23 to November 5, 1998, Antonetti was President of the Goods Administration of the Apostolic See (APSA). From 1998 to 2006 he was papal delegate for the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi .

At the conclave after the death of Pope John Paul II. In 2005, he did not participate more because he had already passed the age of 80 years.

On March 1, 2008 Benedict XVI raised him . to the cardinal priest pro hac vice .

Cardinal Antonetti also stopped taking part in the 2013 conclave . He died four weeks after Pope Francis was elected .

Web links

• Antonetti, Lorenzo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 6, 2016.
• Entry on Lorenzo Antonetti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved April 10, 2013.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sante Portalupi	Apostolic Nuncio in Honduras 1968–1973	Gabriel Montalvo Higuera
Sante Portalupi	Apostolic Nuncio in Nicaragua 1968–1973	Gabriel Montalvo Higuera
Bruno Torpigliani	Apostolic Nuncio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1973–1977	Edoardo Rovida
Angelo Felici	Apostolic Nuncio in France 1988–1995	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
José Tomás Cardinal Sánchez	Prefect of the property administration of the Apostolic See 1995–1998	Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan