1. Luigi Maglione was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1908 and served as a papal nuncio from 1920 to 1935.
11 Facts About Luigi Maglione
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Luigi Maglione became an archbishop in 1920 and a Cardinal in 1935.
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Luigi Maglione was ordained a priest on 25 July 1901, and then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Naples until 1903.
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Luigi Maglione studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 1905 to 1907; he later taught there from 1915 to 1918.
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Luigi Maglione served an official of the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1908 to 1918, rising to become a Privy Chamberlain and a Domestic Prelate.
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Luigi Maglione was a provisional papal representative to the League of Nations and a special papal envoy to Switzerland.
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On 1 September 1920, Luigi Maglione was appointed Nuncio to Switzerland and Titular Archbishop of Cesarea di Palestina by Pope Benedict XV.
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Luigi Maglione was named Apostolic Nuncio to France on 23 June 1926.
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Cardinal Luigi Maglione was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.
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Pius XII, who was a former schoolmate of Luigi Maglione's, tapped Luigi Maglione to succeed him as Vatican Secretary of State on 10 March 1939.
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Cardinal Luigi Maglione died a year before the war's end in his native Casoria from neuritis and circulatory ailments.