1. Marcello Mimmi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
12 Facts About Marcello Mimmi
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Marcello Mimmi served as Archbishop of Naples from 1952 to 1957, and Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation from 1957 until his death.
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Marcello Mimmi Mimi was born in San Pietro in Casale and studied at the seminary in Bologna before being ordained to the priesthood on 23 December 1905.
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Marcello Mimmi then did pastoral work and taught at the Bologna seminary until 1930.
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Marcello Mimmi was elevated to a Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 19 November 1919, and later named rector of the Regional Seminary of Romagna.
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On 30 June 1930, Marcello Mimmi was appointed Bishop of Crema by Pope Pius XI.
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Marcello Mimmi was later named Archbishop of Bari on 31 July 1933, and Archbishop of Naples on 30 August 1952.
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Marcello Mimmi served as papal legate to several ecclesiastical gatherings from 1955 to 1960.
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Marcello Mimmi later chose to be advanced to the rank of Cardinal Bishop, receiving the suburbicarian see of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto on 9 June 1958.
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Marcello Mimmi was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave that selected Pope John XXIII.
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Marcello Mimmi is buried in the Cathedral of Magliano Sabina.
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Marcello Mimmi served as President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and of the Cardinalatial Commission for the Shrine of Pompeii from 1958 until his death.