Giacomo Testa
{{Short description|Italian prelate}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = Archbishop
|honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend
|name = Giacomo Testa
|title = President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
|church = Roman Catholic Church
|appointed = 22 June 1959
|term_end = 29 September 1962
|predecessor = Paolo Savino
|successor = Gino Paro
|other_post = Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa (1953-62)
|ordination = 6 December 1931
|ordained_by =
|consecration = 26 August 1953
|consecrated_by = Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
|birth_name = Giacomo Testa
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1909|04|03}}
|birth_place = Cenate Sotto, Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1962|09|29|1909|04|03}}
|death_place = Cenate Sotto, Bergamo, Italy
|previous_post = Apostolic Administrator of Constantinople (1953-59)
Apostolic Delegate to Turkey (1953-59) }}
Giacomo Testa (3 April 1909 – 29 September 1962) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and then headed its training program, the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, from 1959 until his death at age 53 in 1962. Early in his diplomatic career, he worked closely with Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who later as Pope John XXIII gave him his final appointment as President of the Academy.
Biography
Giacomo Testa was born on 3 April 1909 in Cenate Sotto, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 6 December 1931.
As a junior member of the diplomatic service of the Holy See, some of his assignments tracked those of Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (the future Pope John XXIII), during his tenure as papal representative to Bulgaria (1931–1934), Turkey (1934–1944), and France (1944–1952).{{cite book | access-date = 1 May 2020 | pages = xlix (consecration), 230n (postings), 233 (departure from Turkey) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oSCr4lQbl30C&pg=PA230 | title= Journal of a Soul | author = Pope John XXIII | publisher = A&C Black | date= 2000 | isbn = 9780567123060 }}{{cite news | work = New York Times | access-date = 1 May 2020 | date= 30 September 1962 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/09/30/121654028.html | title= Msgr. Giacomo Testa}}{{efn|Testa was not always alongside Roncalli throughout these years. Roncalli notes Testa's departure from Turkey on 2 November 1939: "My dear secretary, Msgr. Giacomo Testa, left me finally to run his own course. He was a good lad and had been with me for over two years, and I loved him in the Lord. So be it."}}
On 19 June 1953, Pope Pius XII named him titular archbishop of Heraclea in Europa and Apostolic Delegate to Turkey.{{cite book | page= 475 | access-date = 1 May 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-45-1953-ocr.pdf |date= 1953 |volume = XXXXV | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} He received his episcopal consecration on 26 August 1953 from Cardinal Angelo Roncalli.
On 22 June 1959, Pope John XXIII named him President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 1 May 2020 | page = 491 |date= 1966 |volume = LVIII | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-58-1966-ocr.pdf }} On 16 July he was appointed a consultor to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 1 May 2020 | page = 599 |date= 1966 |volume = LVIII | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-58-1966-ocr.pdf }} and on 31 August a consultor to the Congregation for Religious.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | access-date = 1 May 2020 | page = 660 |date= 1966 |volume = LVIII | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-58-1966-ocr.pdf }}
He died on 29 September 1962 at the age of 53{{cite book | page= 752|access-date = 1 May 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-54-1962-ocr.pdf |date= 1962 | volume = LIV | title =Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} in his home town of Cenate Sotto.
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- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btest.html Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Giacomo Testa] Wikipedia:SPS
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