Giuseppe Fietta

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|name = Giuseppe Fietta

|title = Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Italy

|church = Roman Catholic Church

|appointed = 26 January 1953

|term_end = 15 December 1958

|predecessor = Francesco Borgongini Duca

|successor = Carlo Grano

|other_post = Cardinal-Priest of San Paolo alla Regola "pro hac vice" (1958–60)

|ordination = 4 November 1906

|consecration = 10 October 1926

|consecrated_by = Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano

|cardinal = 15 December 1958

|created_cardinal_by = Pope John XXIII

|rank = Cardinal-Priest

|birth_name = Giuseppe Fietta

|birth_date = 6 November 1883

|birth_place = Ivrea, Kingdom of Italy

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1960|10|01|1883|11|06}}

|death_place = Ivrea, Italy

|buried = Ivrea Cathedral

|alma_mater = Pontifical Gregorian University

|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Archbishop of Serdica (1926–58)|Apostolic Internuncio to Central America (1926–30)|Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (1930–36)|Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic (1930–36)|Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay (1936–39)|Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina (1936–53)}}

|motto = Fiat pax in virtute tua

|coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Giuseppe Fietta.svg }}

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Giuseppe Fietta (6 November 1883 – 1 October 1960) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1924 to 1958, including a stint as Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina from 1936 to 1953. He was made a cardinal in 1958.

Biography

Born in Ivrea, Piedmont, Giuseppe Fietta studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood on 4 November 1906. He then served as private secretary to the bishop of Alghero, Oristano, and Cagliari until 1923. Fietta was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 9 May 1920 and served as the rector of the Seminary of Alghero and a canon of its cathedral chapter from 1923 to 1924. Joining the diplomatic service of the Holy See, he worked as secretary of the Nunciature to Costa Rica and in 1925 became chargé d'affaires there.

On 30 March 1926 Pope Pius XI appointed Fietta Titular Archbishop of Serdica and, on 8 July, Apostolic Internuncio to Central America.{{cite book| access-date = 18 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-18-1926-ocr.pdf | date = 1926 | volume = XVIII | pages= 187, 459}}

He received his episcopal consecration on 10 October that year from Cardinal Giovanni Bonzano in Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio in Rome.

Fietta was named Nuncio to Haiti and to the Dominican Republic on 18 October 1930. He was replaced in those nunciatures by Maurilio Silvani on 24 July 1936.{{cite book | pages= 296, 497 | access-date = 12 July 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-28-1936-ocr.pdf |date= 1936|volume = XXVIII | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} His term in the Dominican Republic coincided with the first presidency–and the first stages of the dictatorship–of Rafael Trujillo, to whom Fietta was politically sympathetic.{{cite book | title= Trujillo: monarca sin corona | page= 140 | language = es | date= 2008 | first = Euclides | last = Gutiérrez Félix }}

Pope Pius XI appointed him Nuncio to Argentina on 12 August 1936{{cite book | page= 497 |access-date = 12 July 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-28-1936-ocr.pdf | date= 1936 | volume = XXVIII | title =Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} and Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay on 11 December 1936,{{cite book | access-date = 13 July 2020 | language = it |first= Giuseppe |last = De Marchi | title = Le Nunziature Apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 | page= 200 | date = 1957 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cRz3tzdEXGwC&pg=PA200 |publisher = Libreria Editrice Vaticana}} though the latter appointment only lasted until he was replaced in Paraguay by Albert Levame on 12 November 1939,{{cite book | page= 721 |access-date = 12 July 2020 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-31-1939-ocr.pdf | date= 1939 | volume = XXXI | title =Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} while his Argentina posting lasted until 1953.

Pope Pius XII named him Nuncio to Italy on 26 January 1953,{{cite book | page= 108 | access-date = 13 July 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-45-1953-ocr.pdf |date= 1953 |volume = XLV | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}} a post he held until he became a cardinal in 1958. He attempted to have diplomatic relations established between the Vatican and the Soviet Union.{{cite magazine | magazine= Time | url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,893575,00.html | title = Vatican-Kremlin Relations | date= 17 September 1956}}

Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal-Priest of San Paolo alla Regola in the consistory of 15 December 1958.{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/12/16/83430914.pdf | work = New York Times| accessdate = 25 October 2017 | date = 16 December 1958 | title = Pope Elevates 33 to Cardinalate; Deplores China Church Schism | first = Arnoldo | last = Cortesi}} Following the ancient custom revived by Pope Pius, Fietta received his cardinal's red biretta from Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, on 17 December.{{cite book| access-date = 12 July 2020 | page= 380| url = https://archivio.quirinale.it/discorsi-bookreader//discorsi/Gronchi.html#page/380/mode/2up | title= Discorsi e Messaggi del Presidente della Repubblica Giovanni Gronchi |location = Rome | date= 2009 |volume= Quaderni di Documentazione, Nuova Serie, No. 11 | publisher = Segretariato della Presidenza della Republica | editor-first= Roberto | editor-last = Gallinari}}

In retirement he enjoyed strolling the streets of his native Ivrea and playing bocce with his friends.{{cite magazine | magazine = Time | url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937728,00.html | title= The New Cardinals | date= 22 December 1958}}

Fietta died in Ivrea, at age 76, and is buried at its cathedral.

References

External links

[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfietta.html Catholic-Hierarchy] Wikipedia:SPS
[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-f.htm#Fietta Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403190505/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-f.htm#Fietta |date=2007-04-03 }}

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before=Angelo Rotta |

title=Nuncio to Central America|

after=Carlo Chiarlo |

years=27 September 1926 – 23 September 1930}}

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before=George Caruana |

title=Nuncio to Haiti and the Dominican Republic|

after=Maurilio Silvani |

years=23 September 1930 – 20 June 1936}}

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before=Filippo Cortesi |