12 Facts About Ildebrando Antoniutti

Ildebrando Antoniutti was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Ildebrando Antoniutti served as prefect of the Congregation for Religious from 1963 to 1973, and was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John XXIII in 1962.

In November 1917 Ildebrando Antoniutti went to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary and Pontifical Lateran University.

Ildebrando Antoniutti was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Rossi on 5 December 1920, and then taught at the Udine seminary from 1921 to 1927, whilst serving as Rossi's private secretary.

In 1927 Ildebrando Antoniutti was named secretary of the apostolic delegation to China, under Archbishop Celso Costantini, becoming its auditor in 1930 and later charge d'affaires ad interim in 1933.

Ildebrando Antoniutti was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 24 September 1931, and named auditor to the Portuguese nunciature in 1934.

On 19 May 1936, Ildebrando Antoniutti was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Albania and Titular Archbishop of Synnada in Phrygia by Pope Pius XI.

Ildebrando Antoniutti later became Apostolic Delegate to Canada on 14 July 1938.

Ildebrando Antoniutti presided over the controversial resignation of Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau.

Cardinal Ildebrando Antoniutti later resigned as Prefect of Religious, after a decade of service, upon becoming Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni on 13 September 1973.

Ildebrando Antoniutti was named Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals the next year.

Ildebrando Antoniutti's body was moved to Nimis two days later, which would have been his seventy-sixth birthday, for a funeral Mass, which was celebrated by Cardinals Ermenegildo Florit and Albino Luciani, and nine other bishops.