Egidio Vagnozzi

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Egidio Vagnozzi (26 February 1906 – 26 December 1980) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the second president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See from 1968 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.

Biography

Egidio Vagnozzi was born in Rome to Francesco and Pasqua (née Jachetti) Vagnozzi, and studied at the

canonical age. He then finished his studies in 1930.[citation needed
]

In 1930, he also became a staff member of the

apostolic delegation to the United States in 1932. Vagnozzi was counselor of the French nunciature from 1945 to 1947, and became a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 23 December 1945. He was an official of the delegation for the establishment of diplomatic relations with India for a year until becoming chargé d'affaires of the Holy See's mission to the Indian government in New Delhi from June to August 1948.[citation needed
]

On 9 March 1949, Vagnozzi was appointed

Apostolic Delegate to the United States on 16 December 1958.[2] He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.[citation needed
]

Chamberlain of the College of Cardinals
from 30 June 1979 until his death.

Vagnozzi died in Rome, at age 74. After a

Lateran Basilica, he was buried in the Campo Verano
. His remains were later transferred to his cardinalitial church in March 1983.

Criticism

As the Vatican in modern times came under the criticism of the liberal press for reactionary policies, so was Vagnozzi accused in a 1967 press article for using his influence at the Vatican so as to permit only conservative US priests to become bishops: "His influence is thought to be heavily responsible for the conservative cast of those bishops appointed (in the United States) in recent years".[3]

Vagnozzi opposed the Marian apparition of

Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces, rejecting its Marian visionary Teresita Castillo, along with six Filipino local bishops who declared it "Non-Supernatural" in 1956. On 11 December 2015, the Vatican confirmed "the definitive nature of the 11 April 1951 decree by which the phenomena of Lipa were declared to lack supernatural origin."[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "Address by Cardinal Sodano to commemorate 50 years of Vatican-Philippines relations". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  2. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LI. 1959. p. 116. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ Daniel Callahan, "America's Catholic Bishops" The Atlantic Monthly, April 1967
  4. ^ "Prot. N. 226/1949 Presumed Apparitions of the BVM at the Carmelite Convent in Lipa, Philippines," 11 December 2015

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines
1949–1951 		Succeeded by
Delegation was elevated to the rank of Apostolic Nunciature
Preceded by
Delegation was elevated to the rank of Apostolic Nunciature
 Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines
1951–1958 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Apostolic Delegate to the United States

1958–1968 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
13 January 1968 – 26 December 1980 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Gabriel-Marie Cardinal Garrone
Chamberlain of the College of Cardinals

1979 – 26 December 1980 		Succeeded by
Maximilien Cardinal de Furstenberg
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