1. Corrado Bafile was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1975 to 1980, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.
13 Facts About Corrado Bafile
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The youngest of the twelve children, Bafile was born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, to physician Vincenzo Bafile and his wife Maddalena Tedeschini D'Annibale.
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Corrado Bafile's brother was a military hero who died in World War I, and was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour.
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Corrado Bafile attended the liceo classico in L'Aquila before studying chemistry at the University of Munich in Germany.
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Corrado Bafile later decided to pursue Holy Orders in 1932, and then studied philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University for a year before attending the Pontifical Roman Seminary and Pontifical Lateran University, earning a doctorate in canon law.
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Corrado Bafile was ordained to the priesthood on 11 April 1936, and then furthered his studies at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy until 1939.
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Corrado Bafile was an attache of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and did pastoral work in Rome from 1939 to 1960.
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Corrado Bafile was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 24 June 1954.
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On 13 February 1960, Corrado Bafile was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Germany and Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia on 13 February 1960 by Pope John XXIII.
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Corrado Bafile attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was later named Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints on 18 July 1975.
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Corrado Bafile was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II, respectively.
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Corrado Bafile died from complications with influenza at the Pius XI Clinic in Rome, at age 101.
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Corrado Bafile's remains were later transferred to the church where he was baptized.