1. Fiorenzo Angelini was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
17 Facts About Fiorenzo Angelini
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Fiorenzo Angelini served as the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers in the Roman Curia, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991.
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When Cardinal Ersilio Tonini died on 28 July 2013, Cardinal Angelini became the oldest living cardinal until the next consistory where Pope Francis appointed 98-year-old Archbishop Loris Francesco Capovilla as a cardinal.
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Fiorenzo Angelini did pastoral work in Rome until 1956, and served as a chaplain in Azione Cattolica from 1945 to 1959.
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Fiorenzo Angelini served as Master of Pontifical Ceremonies from 1947 to 1954, and for a few months he was a delegate for Roman hospitals.
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Fiorenzo Angelini founded, in 1959, the Italian Catholic Doctors' Association, and attended the Second Vatican Council.
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Fiorenzo Angelini was created Cardinal-Deacon of Santo Spirito in Sassia by John Paul II in the consistory of 28 June 1991.
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Fiorenzo Angelini was not prosecuted, due to the Vatican's extraterritorial privileges granted by the Lateran Pacts.
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Fiorenzo Angelini was near to Giulio Andreotti, a Christian Democracy politician who was several times Prime Minister of Italy, and whose entourage fell from power in the same period by similar scandals.
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Fiorenzo Angelini celebrated the marriage of the daughter of Paolo Cirino Pomicino, another DC politician involved in the bribery scandals; the marriage was attended, amongst others, by Andreotti, Gianni De Michelis and minister Francesco De Lorenzo, who was condemned to 5 years imprisonment for bribery in the management of Italy's Public Health sector.
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Fiorenzo Angelini lost his right to vote in papal conclaves when he turned 80 on 1 August 1996.
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Fiorenzo Angelini retired as President of Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers on 31 December 1996, and on 26 February 2002, he exercised the right of becoming a cardinal priest after ten years as a cardinal deacon.
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Fiorenzo Angelini has called for the opening of a cause for the beatification of French geneticist Jerome Lejeune.
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In 1997 Fiorenzo Angelini formed the International Institute for Research on the Face of Christ in Rome in association with the Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face.
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Fiorenzo Angelini was a lifelong admirer of the late Pope Pius XII.
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In 1959, Fiorenzo Angelini published the medical theological pronouncement of the late Pope, the only systematic compilation of the medical speeches and positions of Pope Pius XII, in Pio XII Discorsi Ai Medici and went on to champion his cause for canonization.
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Fiorenzo Angelini was appointed bishop by Pius XII in 1956, but did not get the galero until 1991.