Giuseppe Sensi
{{Short description|Italian Cardinal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = Cardinal
|honorific_prefix = His Eminence
|name = Giuseppe Maria Sensi
|title = Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum
|church = Roman Catholic Church
|appointed = 22 June 1987
|term_end = 26 July 2001
|predecessor = Ermenegildo Florit
|successor = Virgilio Noè
|ordination = 21 December 1929
|consecration = 24 July 1955
|consecrated_by = Valerio Valeri
|cardinal = 24 May 1976
|created_cardinal_by = Pope Paul VI
|rank = Cardinal-Deacon (1976–87)
Cardinal-Priest (1987–2001)
|birth_name = Giuseppe Maria Sensi
|birth_date = 27 May 1907
|birth_place = Cosenza, Kingdom of Italy
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2001|07|26|1907|05|27}}
|death_place = Clinic Pio XI, Rome, Italy
|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica (1955–57)|Titular Archbishop of Sardes (1955–76)|Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine (1957–62)|Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland (1962–67)|Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal (1967–76)|Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari (1976–87)}}
|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Pontifical Lateran University|Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy}} }}
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Giuseppe Maria Sensi (27 May 1907 – 26 July 2001) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as a longtime Vatican diplomat.
Biography
Sensi was born in Cosenza, Italy, on 27 May 1907,{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3jOLGy127mMC&pg=PA372 | page= 372 | title = Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-state Relations, 1922-1960 | date= 1995 | publisher = Cork University Press | first = Dermot | last = Keogh | isbn= 9780902561960 }} the sixth of ten children of a prominent local politician.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} He was ordained a priest in December 1929 at the age of 22.
In preparation for a diplomat's career he completed the course of study at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1931.{{cite web|publisher=Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|language =it|access-date = 23 July 2019 | title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1900 – 1949 |url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1900-1949.htm }}
By 1934 he was working in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He worked in minor roles in many nunciatures.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} Pope Pius XII named him Permanent Observer of the Holy See to UNESCO on 21 May 1953.{{cite book | page= 26 | date= 2009 | first = Roman A. | last = Melnyk | title = Vatican Diplomacy at the United Nations: A History of Catholic Global Engagement | publisher = Edwin Mellon Press }}
On 21 May 1955 Pope Pius XII appointed him Titular Archbishop of Sardes and Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 July.
He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine on 12 January 1957.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis| access-date = 31 August 2019 |page= 176 | date=1957| url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-49-1957-ocr.pdf | volume = IL }} Pope Paul VI appointed him on 10 May 1962 the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis| access-date = 31 August 2019 |page= 176 | date=1962| url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-54-1962-ocr.pdf | volume = LIV }} He was transferred to Portugal on 8 July 1967.
On 24 May 1976 he was created Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari by Pope Paul at the age of 69. He took part in both of the conclaves of 1978 that elected Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II.
After ten years as a Cardinal Deacon he took the option of becoming a Cardinal-Priest on 22 June 1987, becoming Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum.
He died at the age of 94 on 26 July 2001.
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External links
- [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-s.htm#Sensi Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817213840/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-s.htm#Sensi |date=17 August 2014 }}
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Category:Apostolic nuncios to Costa Rica
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Ireland
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Portugal
Category:Permanent observers of the Holy See to the United Nations
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Category:Participants in the Second Vatican Council
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