Alberto di Jorio
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Alberto di Jorio (18 July 1884 – 5 September 1979) was a
Early life
Alberto di Jorio was born in Rome on 18 July 1884. From his earliest years di Jorio was destined for a career in the
Under the direction of Pope Pius XI, who was eager to settle the "Roman Question" that had kept the Pope as a "prisoner of the Vatican" since Italian unification in 1870, di Jorio formed a close association with Bernardino Nogara in the 1920s. After the Lateran Treaty settled the "Roman Question" and made the Vatican an independent state, di Jorio was chosen by Nogara to run the Vatican Bank, and aided by laws that allowed Nogara to freely buy shares in any company even if its business activities did not align with Catholic Church teaching, the Vatican grew immensely wealthy, buying extensively into such wealthy corporations as General Motors, Standard Oil, General Electric and IBM – as well as Italgas, the major supplier of gas in Italy at the time.
Episcopal career
Di Jorio continued to run the Istituto per le Opere di Religione until after
Di Jorio participated in the Second Vatican Council and in the conclave of 1963 that elected Pope Paul VI. He continued to lead the Vatican Bank until 1968. On 4 November 1968, Pope Paul accepted di Jorio's resignation–which he had submitted several times in recent years–as pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State.[5]
He was one of the cardinals immediately affected when, in 1970, Pope Paul determined that only cardinals who had not reached 80 years of age would be allowed to participate in the election of a pope.[6] Upon the death of José da Costa Nunes on 29 November 1976, di Jorio became the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. Pope Paul VI preached the homily at a Mass celebrating the seventieth anniversary of di Jorio's priestly ordination.[citation needed]
He died at home in Rome on 5 September 1979 at age 95.[7]
References
- ISBN 9781416576570. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. L. 1958. pp. 987–9, 995–7. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Catholic Cardinals Now are All Bishops" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 April 1962. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LIX. 1967. p. 715. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Lettera del Papa Paolo VI al Cardinal Alberto di Jorio" (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 4 November 1968. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Hoffman, Paul (24 November 1970). "Voting for Popes Is Barred to Cardinals Over 80". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Alberto Di Jorio, Oldest Cardinal, Dies at 95 at His Home in Rome". The New York Times. 6 September 1979. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
External links
- "Alberto Cardinal di Jorio". Catholic Hierarchy.[self-published]
- "Di Jorio, Alberto". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.[self-published]
