Corrado Ursi
{{Short description|Italian prelate}}
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| type = Cardinal
| honorific-prefix =His Eminence
| name = Corrado Ursi
| honorific-suffix =
| title = Cardinal, Archbishop emertius of Naples
| image = Corrado Cardinale Ursi.jpg
| caption = Photograph of Ursi in 1956
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| archdiocese = Naples
| appointed = 23 May 1966
| enthroned =
| term_end = 9 May 1987
| predecessor = Alfonso Castaldo
| successor = Michele Giordano
| ordination = 25 July 1931
| consecration = 30 September 1951
| consecrated_by = Carlo Confalonieri
| cardinal = 26 June 1967
| created_cardinal_by = Paul VI
| rank = Cardinal-Priest
| other_post = Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto (1967–2003)
| birth_name = Corrado Ursi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|7|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Andria, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|8|29|1908|7|26|df=y}}
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| previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Bishop of Nardò (1951–1961)|Archbishop of Acerenza (1961–1966)}}
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| coat_of_arms = 150px
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|cardinal name=Corrado Ursi
|dipstyle=His Eminence
|offstyle=Your Eminence
|See=Naples
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Corrado Ursi (26 July 1908 – 29 August 2003) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Naples from 1966 to 1987, and was created a cardinal in 1967, given the titular church of San Callisto.[http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/127.htm Cardinal Title S. Callisto] GCatholic.org
Biography
Corrado Ursi was born in Andria, the son of a baker.{{cite magazine|date=9 October 1978 |magazine=Time|title=Cover Story: The September Pope |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,919865,00.html}} He was baptized the day after his birth at the parish of San Agostino.{{cite news|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|title=URSI, Corrado (1908-2003)|url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-u.htm#Ursi |last=Miranda|first=Salvador}} After attending the seminary of Andria, he studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Regional Seminary of Molfetta. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Molfetta on 25 July 1931.{{cite news|work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|title=Corrado Cardinal Ursi|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bursi.html}}
Shortly after his ordination, he became vice-rector of the Pontifical Regional Seminary of Molfetta. He was named rector a few months later, serving in that post until 1951. He did pastoral work in several Italian dioceses during the summer recesses, and became active in Azione Cattolica. He was named a privy chamberlain of his holiness on 15 July 1943.
In 1951, Pope Pius XII appointed Corrado Ursi Bishop of Nardò, a post that he held for 10 years. In 1961, he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Acerenza by Pope John XXIII. In 1966 Pope Paul VI appointed him archbishop of Naples and created him a cardinal a year later, assigning him the titular church of San Callisto. He participated in the papal conclaves of August and October in 1978.
Ursi died on 29 August 2003. At the time of his death he was one of the last two surviving cardinals elevated by Pope Paul VI in the 1967 consistory, along with Pope John Paul II, leaving Pope John Paul II the lone surviving member of that consistory.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071103000602/http://www.medugorje.it/cardinale-Ursi.htm "Ricordiamo il Cardinale Corrado Ursi"]. {{in lang|it}}
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Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Category:Archbishops of Naples
Category:20th-century Italian cardinals