1. Giacomo Lercaro was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Ravenna from 1947 to 1952, and Archbishop of Bologna from 1952 to 1968.
13 Facts About Giacomo Lercaro
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Giacomo Lercaro was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, as the eighth of nine children.
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Giacomo Lercaro came from a family of seamen, and two of his brothers, Amedeo and Attilio, entered religion.
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From 1902 to 1914, Lercaro attended the archdiocesan seminary in Genoa.
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Giacomo Lercaro was ordained a priest on 25 July 1914 by Archbishop Ildefonso Pisani, and four months later, in November, travelled to Rome to study at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
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When Italy entered World War I, Giacomo Lercaro was forced to change posts and become a military chaplain until the war ended in 1918.
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Giacomo Lercaro served as substitute professor of theology and professor of sacred scripture and patrology.
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Giacomo Lercaro received his episcopal consecration on 19 March 1947 from Archbishop Giuseppe Siri, with Archbishop Angleo Rossini and Bishop Francesco Canessa serving as co-consecrators.
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On 12 February 1968, Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro was forced to step down from his position as Archbishop of Bologna and in 1971, he lost his right to participate in any future conclave upon reaching the age of eighty according to the then-recent motu proprio Ingravescentem aetatem.
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Giacomo Lercaro died from a cardiac crisis in Bologna, ten days short of his 85th birthday.
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Giacomo Lercaro was buried in the metropolitan cathedral of that city.
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At one point during World War II, Giacomo Lercaro was forced to operate under the alias of "Father Lorenzo Gusmini" and live in a vacant monastery cell to avoid being killed by Nazi collaborators.
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Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro was the first to popularize the theory of a "Church of the poor" that developed further in Latin America during the 1970s.