1. Gaetano Cicognani was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
12 Facts About Gaetano Cicognani
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Gaetano Cicognani served as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
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Gaetano Cicognani was born in Brisighella to Guglielmo Gaetano Cicognani and his wife Anna Ceroni.
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Gaetano Cicognani's brother, Amleto, was born over a year later in 1883.
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Gaetano Cicognani studied at the seminary in Faenza, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Gioacchino Cantagalli on 24 September 1904.
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Gaetano Cicognani then went to Rome to attend the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S Apollinare and was, like his brother, summoned to the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.
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Gaetano Cicognani became secretary of the Spanish nunciature on 1 February 1916, and a privy chamberlain of his holiness on 9 March 1916.
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Gaetano Cicognani was made auditor of the nunciature to Belgium on 3 February 1920.
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On 10 January 1925 Gaetano Cicognani was appointed Apostolic Internuncio to Bolivia and Titular Archbishop of Ancyra.
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Archbishop Gaetano Cicognani was later named Apostolic Nuncio to Peru on 15 June 1928, to Austria on 13 June 1936, and to Spain on 16 May 1938.
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Gaetano Cicognani was appointed as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on 18 November 1954 and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave that selected Pope John XXIII.
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Gaetano Cicognani died in Rome, at age 80, and is buried in the collegiate church of S Michele in his native Brisighella.