Antonio Magnoni
{{Short description|Italian priest and theologian}}
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
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.{{cite web|publisher=Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|language =it|access-date = 10 May 2020| title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1950 – 1999 |url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1950-1999.htm }} 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.{{cn|date=May 2020}} On 8 April 1970, he became undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.{{cite book | page= 251 | access-date = 10 May 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-62-1970-ocr.pdf |date=1970 |volume = LXII | title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis}}
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.{{cite book | pages= 367, 373| access-date = 10 May 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-72-1980-ocr.pdf |date=1980 |volume = LXXII | title= Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} He received his episcopal consecration in 1 June 1980 from Cardinal James Robert Knox.{{Cite web|title=Archbishop Antonio Magnoni [Catholic-Hierarchy]|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmagnoni.html|access-date=2021-01-20|website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}
On 22 July 1989, Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Egypt.{{cite book | page= 1079 | access-date = 10 May 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-81-1989-ocr.pdf |date=1989 |volume = LXXXI | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} He retired from that position upon the appointment of his successor, Paolo Giglio, on 25 March 1995, at the age of 75.{{cite book | page= 397 | access-date = 10 May 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-87-1995-ocr.pdf |date=1995 |volume = LXXXVII | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}}
He died of lung cancer in Rome on 18 March 2007.
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External links
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmagnoni.html Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Antonio Magnoni] Wikipedia:SPS
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Category:Religious leaders from the Province of Modena
Category:Officials of the Roman Curia
Category:Apostolic nuncios to New Zealand
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Fiji