Luigi Poggi

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Luigi Cardinal Poggi (born November 25, 1917 in Piacenza , Italy , † May 4, 2010 in Rome ) was a Vatican diplomat and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Poggi studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Collegium Alberoni in Piacenza . On July 28, 1940, he received the sacrament of ordination . He then served briefly as chaplain of the parish of San Francesco in Piacenza worked and was in the same year to study at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Apollinare in Rome released, which he in 1944 with the promotion of Dr. iur. utr. completed. This was followed by further studies at the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy until 1946 .

From 1945 Poggi was an employee in the Vatican State Secretariat . On June 15, 1949, Pope Pius XII awarded him . the honorary title of secret chamberlain to His Holiness ; Pope John XXIII awarded him the title of House Prelate of His Holiness on April 14, 1960 .

On April 3, 1965, Pope Paul VI appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Forontoniana and ordered him to apostolic delegate in Central Africa. He received his episcopal consecration on May 9, 1965, Cardinal Secretary of State Amleto Giovanni Cicognani in the Basilica of San Carlo al Corso ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Piacenza , Titular Archbishop Umberto Malchiodi , and Curia Bishop Antonio Samorè .

After the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Cameroon and Gabon , Poggi was first Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Cameroon and Gabon in 1966 and also in the Central African Republic in 1967 ; In 1969 he became Apostolic Nuncio in Peru , in 1975 in Poland and 1986 in Italy . As apostolic nuncio with special tasks, he was also involved with the governments of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria to improve the situation of the Catholic Church in these countries.

On April 9, 1992, Poggi became Pro-Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and Pro-Librarian of the Vatican Library .

Pope John Paul II accepted him on November 26, 1994 as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Santa Maria in Domnica in the cardinals college . Shortly afterwards, on November 29, 1994, he became the archivist of the Secret Archives and librarian of the Vatican Library.

On March 7, 1998, Poggi resigned from his office upon reaching the age limit. On February 24, 2005 he was elevated to cardinal priest with the titular church of San Lorenzo in Lucina , whereby the position of cardinal protodiac , which he held since 2002, passed to Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez .

Cardinal Poggi was one of those purple bearers who continued to celebrate Holy Mass in the Tridentine rite even after the liturgical reform, as he said in an interview after the Motu proprio Summorum pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI. reported in detail.

The exequies for the deceased cardinal took place on May 7, 2010 in St. Peter's Basilica ; Cardinal Dean Angelo Sodano celebrated the Requiem , Pope Benedict XVI. preached and gave the blessing .

Luigi Poggi was the Grand Cross of the Order of Constantine .

Act

Luigi Poggi was a representative of a "Vatican Ostpolitik" founded by Agostino Casaroli . During his assignment in the 1970s / 80s as a special envoy for the European communist countries, he played a key role in opening up the states. He had access to rulers like Nicolae Ceaușescu , Pál Losonczi and Gustáv Husák . In Poland in particular, he had a decisive influence on the reform movement during and after the Polish state of emergency 1981–1983 . Poggi was appointed by John Paul II as head of the Vatican group for permanent working contacts with the Polish government. After Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law on December 13, 1981, he met with US President Ronald Reagan , CIA Director William Joseph Casey and Pope John Paul II to assess the situation.

In the press he was referred to as a "travel nuncio".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AAS 41 (1949), p. 383.
  2. ↑ AAS 52 (1960), p. 541.
  3. ^ San beati e testimoni: Card. Luigi Poggi
  4. ↑ Interview on the Italian website Totus tuus by Bruno Volpe with Cardinal Poggi; here in German translation
  5. ↑ Cappella Papale per le Esequie dell'Em.mo Card. Luigi Poggi , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of May 4, 2010.
  6. ^ L'Ordine Costantiniano e il Collegio Cardinalizio - Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio
  7. ↑ Katarzyna Stoklosa, Andrea Strübind: Faith - Freedom - Dictatorship in Europe and the USA. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007
  8. ^ Lech Wałęsa, Arkadiusz Rybicki: The struggle and the triumph. Arcade Publishing, 1992
  9. ↑ Ofira Seliktar: Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures: why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. ME Sharpe, 2004
  10. ^ Hansjakob Stehle : The Ostpolitik of the Vatican: 1917-1975. Piper, 1975
predecessor Office successor
- Apostolic Delegate in Central Africa
1965–1969 		Ernesto Gallina
Establishing diplomatic relations Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Cameroon
1966–1969 		Ernesto Gallina
Establishing diplomatic relations Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Gabon
1967–1969 		Ernesto Gallina
Establishing diplomatic relations Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in the Central African Republic
1967–1969 		Mario Tagliaferri
Romolo Carboni Apostolic Nuncio in Peru
1969–1973 		Carlo Furno
Filippo Cortesi Apostolic Nuncio in Poland
1975–1986 		Francesco Colasuonno
Romolo Carboni Apostolic Nuncio in Italy
1986–1992 		Carlo Furno
Antonio María Cardinal Javierre Ortas SDB Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church
1992–1998 		Jorge Maria Cardinal Mejía
Pio Cardinal Laghi Cardinal Protodiacon
2002-2005 		Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estévez
personal data
SURNAME Poggi, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poggi, Cardinal Luigi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, cardinal protodeacon of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Piacenza , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2010
Place of death Rome