1. Beniamino Stella was born on 18 August 1941 and is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 2013 to 2021; he has been a cardinal since 2014.
12 Facts About Beniamino Stella
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Beniamino Stella began working in the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1970, was made an archbishop in 1987, and served as a nuncio in several countries between 1987 and 2007.
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Beniamino Stella led the Vatican's training program for its diplomats, the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, from 2007 to 2013.
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Beniamino Stella was born in Pieve di Soligo, Province of Treviso, Italy.
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Beniamino Stella was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Vittorio Veneto on 19 March 1966 by his uncle, Archbishop Costantino Stella of L'Aquila.
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Beniamino Stella joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1970 and held posts in the nunciatures in the Dominican Republic from 1970 to 1973 and in Zaire as secretary from 1973 to 1976.
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Beniamino Stella was made a chaplain of His Holiness on 5 September 1974.
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In 1978, after Malta's prime minister Dom Mintoff declared the nuncio, Antonio del Giudice persona non grata, Stella headed the nunciature as charge d'affaires.
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Beniamino Stella was assigned the rank of nunciature counselor on 1 February 1983.
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Beniamino Stella was named a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State on 11 June 2016, of the Secretariat for Communications on 13 July 2016, of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on 28 October 2016, of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 22 November 2016, and of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on 4 October 2017.
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On 1 May 2020, Beniamino Stella was raised to the order of cardinal bishop and assigned the suburbicarian see title of Porto-Santa Rufina.
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Beniamino Stella has served as the postulator for the canonization cause of Pope John Paul I since 2016.