17 Facts About Paolo Marella

Paolo Marella was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Paolo Marella served in the Roman Curia following a career as a delegate of the Holy See, and was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John XXIII in 1959.

Paolo Marella was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basilio Pompili on 23 February 1918, and then furthered his studies whilst doing pastoral work in Rome until 1922.

From 1922 to 1924, Paolo Marella was an official of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in the Roman Curia.

Paolo Marella was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 9 January 1923, and later Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 5 April 1933.

Paolo Marella then served as auditor and charge d'affaires of the Apostolic Delegation to the United States.

On 15 September 1933, Paolo Marella was appointed Titular Archbishop of Doclea by Pope Pius XI.

In 1942, when the Vatican accepted de facto diplomatic relations with Japan, Paolo Marella was given "full diplomatic privileges".

Paolo Marella was made Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania on 27 October 1948.

Also in the 1940s, Paolo Marella was sent to France as an agent of Pope Pius XII when he was aiming to stamp out the Worker-Priest movement that the Pope believed Cardinal Emmanuel Celestin Suhard had been supporting despite his protests otherwise.

Paolo Marella succeeded Archbishop Angelo Roncalli as Nuncio to France on 15 April 1953.

Paolo Marella announced him as Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in the consistory of 28 March 1960.

Paolo Marella acted as papal legate to the inauguration of the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair presiding over the unveiling of the Pieta on 20 April 1964 Marella received four honorary doctorates on this visit to the United States, including one from the Catholic University of America, which had prohibited four liberal theologians from delivering lectures there the previous year, for which Marella commended the university.

Paolo Marella became President of the Secretariat for Non-Christians on 19 May 1964, and again served as a papal legate, to the eighth centennial celebration of the erection of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, to the centennial celebration for the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries in Japan in Tokyo, and to the National Congress of the Confederation of the Christian Doctrine in Pittsburgh.

In 1970, Paolo Marella served as the papal representative to Expo '70 in Osaka.

Paolo Marella resigned his presidency of the Secretariat at the end of February 1973.

From 12 December 1977 until his death Paolo Marella was vice-dean of the College of Cardinals.