10 Facts About Giuseppe Pizzardo

Giuseppe Pizzardo was raised to the rank of monsignor, and appointed secretary of the nunciature to Bavaria, on 7 June 1909.

Giuseppe Pizzardo became an apostolic protonotary on 11 January 1927.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was named president of the Pontifical Commission for Russia on 21 December 1934, and an assistant at the papal throne on 19 January 1936.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via Lata by Pius XI in the consistory of 13 December 1937.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was prefect of the Congregation for Seminaries and Universities from 14 March 1939 until his resignation on 13 January 1968.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was named secretary of the Holy Office on 16 February 1951 by Pope Pius XII, for whom he had worked many years in the Secretariat of State.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was Cardinal-Bishop of Albano from 21 June 1948.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was known as an early patron and mentor of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, who is said to have voted for Pizzardo at the 1963 papal conclave.

Giuseppe Pizzardo opposed the French worker-priest movement, and Catholic participation in the Protestant Cold War group, Moral Re-Armament.

Giuseppe Pizzardo was involved in Azione Cattolica, serving on its Central Committee as ecclesiastical assistant in 1923 and president in 1938.