13 Facts About Carlo Chiarlo

Carlo Chiarlo was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Carlo Chiarlo served as nuncio to several countries, mostly Latin American, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Carlo Chiarlo then taught at the seminary and did pastoral work in Lucca until 1917.

Carlo Chiarlo was secretary and later charge d'affaires of the nunciature to Peru from 1917 to 1922, when he was named Auditor of the Polish nunciature.

Carlo Chiarlo was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 26 May 1918 while secretary in Peru.

On 12 October 1928, Carlo Chiarlo was appointed Titular Archbishop of Amida by Pope Pius XI.

On 28 January 1932, Carlo Chiarlo was made Apostolic Internuncio to Central America, with responsibility as Nuncio to Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, as well as Apostolic Delegate to Guatemala.

Carlo Chiarlo's role was then modified on 30 September 1933 with the erection of nunciatures, leaving him Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama, with his role as Nuncio to El Salvador and Honduras and Delegate to Guatemala assigned to Albert Levame later that year.

Carlo Chiarlo was named head of the pontifical mission to Germany in 1945.

Carlo Chiarlo was appointed Nuncio to Brazil, where he would be a beloved figure, on 19 March 1946.

Carlo Chiarlo was replaced in Brazil by Armando Lombardi on 22 September 1954 and remained a nuncio at the disposition of the Secretariat of State.

Cardinal Carlo Chiarlo lived long enough to attend only the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1963, and serve as a cardinal elector in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

Carlo Chiarlo died in Lucca at age 82 and is buried in an urban cemetery there.