Lorenzo Antonetti

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| see = Sant’Agnese in Agone

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| predecessor = José Tomás Sánchez

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| successor = Agostino Cacciavillan

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| ordination = 26 May 1945

| ordained_by = Leone Giacomo Ossola

| consecration = 12 May 1968

| consecrated_by = Amleto Giovanni Cicognani

| cardinal = 21 February 1998

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| birth_place = Romagnano Sesia, Kingdom of Italy

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| death_place = Novara, Italy

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Lorenzo Antonetti (31 July 1922 – 10 April 2013) was a Cardinal in the Catholic Church, who held several positions in the Vatican diplomatic service.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Early life and ordination

Antonetti was born on 31 July 1922 in Romagnano Sesia, Kingdom of Italy. On 26 May 1945, at the age of 22, Antonetti was ordained priest in Novara, Italy. He did pastoral ministry in diocese of Novara in 1946. He was sent to Rome for further studies from 1947 to 1951 at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, where he obtained a doctorate in theology and later at the Pontifical Gregorian University also in Rome where he was awarded a doctorate in canon law.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

He was admitted to the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy to study diplomacy. He joined the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1951 and served as an attaché and later secretary in nunciature in Lebanon from 1952 to 1955. He was the secretary in nunciature in Venezuela from 1956 to 1959. He worked in the section of Extraordinary Affairs, Secretariat of State, from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed counselor in nunciature in France where he served from 1963 to 1967. He was appointed Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 18 August 1964. He was counselor in apostolic delegation in the United States in 1968. He was appointed Titular Archbishop of Rusellae on 23 February 1968, aged 45.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Apostolic nuncio

Antonetti was named Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras and Nicaragua on 23 February 1968.{{cite book | page= 225 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-60-1968-ocr.pdf| date = 1968 | volume = LX }} He was then appointed as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) on 29 June 1973 where he remained until he became the Official of State, Roman Curia (appointed 15 June 1977).

Finally, he served as the Apostolic Nuncio to France to which he was appointed on 23 September 1988 and where he remained until 1995. In 1995 Pope John Paul II gave him the position of Pro-President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, Roman Curia, losing the "pro-" upon elevation to cardinal.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Curia

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Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal-Deacon of Saint Agnes in Agone on 21 February 1998. He retired as president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See in November 1998 becoming President Emeritus of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

On 1 March 2008 Antonetti was elevated to Cardinal-Priest.

He died in Novara on 10 April 2013.{{cite news|title=L'addio al cardinale Lorenzo Antonetti |url=http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/news/dettaglio-articolo/articolo/vaticano-lorenzo-antonetti-23960/ |accessdate=11 April 2013|newspaper=Vatican Insider|date=10 April 2013|language=it}}[http://ncronline.org/news/people/cardinal-antonetti-vatican-diplomat-finance-manager-dies-90 Cardinal Antonetti, Vatican diplomat, finance manager, dies at 90]

References

External links

[http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/1999Jan/6jan11,vol.10,no.6txt/jan11col.htm Daily Catholic article]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050502133444/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bantonetti.html List of positions held]
[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_antonetti_l_en.html Holy See Press Office. College of Cardinals]

{{s-ttl|title=Apostolic Nuncio to France|years=23 September 1988 – 24 June 1995}}

{{s-ttl|title=President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See|years=24 June 1995 – 5 November 1998}}

Category:1922 births

Category:2013 deaths

Category:20th-century Italian cardinals

Category:Apostolic nuncios to France

Category:Apostolic nuncios to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Category:Apostolic nuncios to Honduras

Category:Apostolic nuncios to Nicaragua

Category:Almo Collegio Capranica alumni

Category:People from the Romagnano Sesia

Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops