Antonio Magnoni
Antonio Magnoni (13 June 1919 – 18 March 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent forty years of his fifty-year career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, interrupted for a ten-year posting in the Roman Curia. He became an archbishop in 1980 and served as Apostolic Nuncio until 1995.
Biography[edit]
Antonio Magnoni was born on 13 June 1919 in Nonantola, Italy, the youngest of eleven children. He studied at the Seminary of Modena and was ordained a priest on 11 April 1943.
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1952.[1] He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was first assigned to the nunciature in Costa Rica on 1 March 1954, and then in Belgium and Chile. In 1964, he joined the staff of the Secretariat of State in Rome.[citation needed] On 8 April 1970, he became undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.[2]
On 24 April 1980, Pope John Paul II named him titular archbishop of Boseta and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to New Zealand and to Fiji and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean Region.[3] He received his episcopal consecration in 1 June 1980 from Cardinal James Robert Knox.[4]
On 22 July 1989, Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Egypt.[5] He retired from that position upon the appointment of his successor, Paolo Giglio, on 25 March 1995, at the age of 75.[6]
He died of lung cancer in Rome on 18 March 2007.
References[edit]
- ^ "Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1950 – 1999" (in Italian). Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXII. 1970. p. 251. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXII. 1980. pp. 367, 373. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Archbishop Antonio Magnoni [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXI. 1989. p. 1079. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVII. 1995. p. 397. Retrieved 10 May 2020.