Costante Maltoni
{{Short description|Italian Catholic prelate (1915–1980)}}
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| type = Archbishop
| name = Costante Maltoni
| title = Archbishop of Thugga and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan
| image = Monsignor Costante Maltoni Archbishop of Thugga in his consecration day (1967).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Maltoni on his consecration day (1967)
| church = Catholic Church
| archdiocese =
| diocese =
| see =
| term = 1967–1980
| predecessor =
| successor =
| ordination = 2 January 1967
| consecration = 12 March 1967
| consecrated_by = Amleto Cicognani
| rank = Archbishop
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1915|2|14}}
| birth_place = Forlimpopoli, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
| death_date = 1 February 1980
| death_place = Rome
| alma_mater = Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
| motto = Portum Fidenter Capit
| buried = Forlimpopoli's Monumental Cemetery
| ordained_by = Pope Paul VI
| nationality = Italian
| coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Costante Maltoni.png
| honorific_prefix = His Excellency Monsignor
}}
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| bishop name = Costante Maltoni
| dipstyle = His Excellency Monsignor
| offstyle = Your Excellency
| relstyle = Archbishop
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| image = Coat of arms of Costante Maltoni.png
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Costante Maltoni (14 February 1915 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Biography
Costante Maltoni was born on 14 February 1915 in Forlimpopoli, in Italy.{{cite book |title="Tugga". Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 1979 |date=1979 |publisher=Libr. Ed. Vaticana., 1979 |pages=835 |chapter=Tugga}}
From an early age he was the author of popular prose passages, poems and essays, some of which were published in the magazine "Fiera letteraria".
After completing his humanistic studies (gymnasium and classical high school) respectively in the seminaries of Bertinoro and Bologna, where he adds the four years in theology, Costante Maltoni was ordained a priest on June 26, 1938 in Forlimpopoli in the Church of S. Pietro.
Later he attended the Pontifical Lateran University and graduated in utruque iure in 1942.
=Loyality to the anti-fascist resistance=
In the meantime, he held various local positions, and during the passage of the war front in Forlimpopoli he was among the prominent exponents of the Resistance.{{cite book | page= 162 | title= La Romagna e i generali inglesi (1943-1944) | date= 1972 | publisher = F. Angeli | first= Oscar | last = Bandini }}{{cite book |last1=Ravaglia |first1=Luciano |title=Uno sguardo alle origini: testimonianze sulla figura di don Costante Maltoni nel periodo 1943/1946 |date=1985 |publisher=Nuova Tipografia s.n.c. Forlimpopoli |pages=19 - 21 - 22 - 61|language=Italian |chapter=1}}
Together with the Marquis Gianraniero Paulucci and Silvio Corbari, in his home in Via Monte Grappa in Forlimpopoli he elaborates the insurrectionary communiqué to the Italians entitled "Movimento Patriottico Giovane Italia", of which the family still retains the original document.[http://www.forlitoday.it/cronaca/appello-silvio-corbari-agosto-1944.html The text of the insurrectionary communiqué can be found here]
Citizen and provincial member of the Liberation Committee, he works at the same time to activate sections of the nascent Democrazia Cristiana.
In 1946 he attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome and in 1948 he was appointed clerk of the nunciature and used in the Vatican Secretariat of State.{{cite web|publisher=Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|language =it|access-date = 12 June 2020 | title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1900 – 1949 |url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1900-1949.htm }}
=Delegate of the Holy See at the High Commissioner for Refugees O.N.U=
File:1958 - Ginevra Mons. Costante Maltoni Delegato della S.Sede.jpg
There followed assignments in the nunciatures of the Philippine Islands (1950), Turkey (1953), India (1956), Saigon, Vietnam (1958) and Bern, Switzerland (1960).{{cite web | access-date = 13 June 2020 | url = http://nunziatura.ch/en/geschichte/ | website = Apostolic Nunciature of Switzerland and Principality of Lichtenstein | language = fr | title = Nunziatura Apostolica | archive-date = 13 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201113034004/http://nunziatura.ch/en/geschichte/ | url-status = dead }} He was nominated as Councilor of the Nunciature and directed relations between the Vatican and international organizations in Geneva (1961), then became a delegate of the Holy See at the High Commissioner for Refugees O.N.U. (C.I.M.E., A.S.C.S.D.C., B.I.T.).{{cite news | access-date = 13 June 2020 | url = https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=tmon19611201-01.2.48& | via = Catholic News Archive | title= No Restriction on Holy See's Refugee Aid | date= 1 December 1961 | work= The Monitor }}
=Episcopal consecration and Apostolic Nunciature=
File:Mons. Costante Maltoni ordinazione vescovile 1967.jpg
On 2 January 1967, Pope Paul VI named him titular archbishop of Thugga and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | pages= 105, 379, 441, 723 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-59-1967-ocr.pdf | date= 1967 | volume = LIX |access-date =12 June 2020}} and the same year he received his episcopal consecration on 12 March 1967 from Cardinal Amleto Cicognani.
=The return to Italy and Death=
He returned to Italy (1970) for serious health reasons and remained there until his death in Rome (1980) which occurred due to a cardio-circulatory collapse with positions of Vatican Secretariat of State. {{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | page= 256|url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-72-1980-ocr.pdf | date= 1980| volume = LXXII |access-date = 12 June 2020}} He rests in the family tomb located in the monumental cemetery of Forlimpopoli
=Things named in Maltoni's honor=
File:Forlimpopoli, Monsignor Costante Maltoni lapide commemorativa.jpg
- On 25 April 2011 a commemorative plate was affixed by the municipality of Forlimpopoli to the birthplace of Costante Maltoni. The house is the same in which the anti-fascist resistance was organized and where the insurrectionary communiqué to the Italians entitled "Movimento Patriottico Giovane Italia" was written.
- The street with the same name in Forlimpopoli in the province of Forlì Cesena was named after Costante Maltoni.
File:La targa della via di Forlimpopoli intitolata a Mons. Costante Maltoni.jpg
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Category:People from the Province of Forlì-Cesena
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Pakistan