Ugo Poletti

Ugo Cardinal Poletti (born April 19, 1914 in Omegna , Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province , Italy ; † February 25, 1997 in Rome ) was Archbishop of Spoleto and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Ugo Poletti received his philosophical and theological training in the seminary of Novara and received on 29 June 1938, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He worked then as a parish pastoral and chancellor of the seminary of Novara.

From 1954 to 1958 he worked in the administration of the Diocese of Novara . 1958 he was by Pope Pius XII. Appointed Titular Bishop of Medeli and Auxiliary Bishop in Novara. He received his episcopal ordination on September 14, 1958, the Bishop of Novara, Vincenzo Gilla Gremigni ; Co- consecrators were Mario Longo Dorni , Bishop of Pistoia , and Francesco Brustia , Bishop of Andria . He took part in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 and became Archbishop of Spoleto in 1967.

In 1969 Pope Paul VI appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Aemona and Vicar General in the Diocese of Rome . On March 5, 1973 he accepted Ugo Poletti as cardinal priest with the titular church Santi Ambrogio e Carlo in the cardinals college and appointed him cardinal vicar . Ugo Poletti represented the Pope on several occasions as the papal legate . He attended the conclaves in August and October 1978. In 1989 he condemned the statements of a group of Italian theologians after they had criticized the administration of Pope John Paul II . In 1991 he resigned from all his offices for reasons of age. He died on February 25, 1997 after a heart attack in the Gemelli Clinic in Rome.

According to a list by the Italian journalist Carmine Pecorelli, he is said to have been a member of the P2 Freemason Lodge, which was used as a secret political organization .

Eugenio Cutolo: Ugo Poletti, cardinale vicario di Sua Santità. Edizione l'idea, Naples 1973.
Niccolò Del Re: Il vicegerente del vicariato di Roma. Istituto di Studi Romani, Rome 1976, p. 78

Commons : Ugo Poletti - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Poletti, Ugo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 13, 2016.
Entry on Ugo Poletti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on November 15, 2019.

↑ VATICAN: cracks in the structure. Der Spiegel , June 12, 1989, accessed September 25, 2015 .
^ "Fraternità sacerdotale dei missionari di San Carlo Borromeo" , Comunione e Liberazione, accessed on April 25, 2011 (Italian)
↑ David Yallop : In the Name of God - The mysterious death of the 33-day Pope John Paul I , ISBN 3-426-03812-9

predecessor	Office	successor
Raffaele Mario Radossi	Archbishop of Spoleto 1967–1969	Giuliano Agresti
Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua	Cardinal Vicar Pro-Vicar General 1972–1973 Vicar General 1973–1991	Camillo Cardinal Ruini
Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua	Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica 1973–1991	Camillo Cardinal Ruini
Anastasio Alberto Cardinal Ballestrero OCD	Chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference 1985–1991	Camillo Cardinal Ruini
Cardinal Luigi Dadaglio	Archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore 1991–1997	Carlo Cardinal Furno

personal data
SURNAME	Poletti, Ugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Poletti, Ugo Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Spoleto
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Omegna , Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1997
Place of death	Rome