Gaetano Cicognani

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Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare
  • Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
    • MottoVigilat nec fatiscit
    Coat of armsGaetano Cicognani's coat of arms
    Styles of
    Gaetano Cicognani
    Frascati (suburbicarain
    )

    Gaetano Cicognani (26 November 1881 – 5 February 1962) was an Italian

    cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. To date, he and his brother, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, are the last pair of brothers to serve simultaneously in the College of Cardinals
    .

    Biography

    Cicognani was born in

    Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare and was, like his brother, summoned to the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
    .

    After working in the

    privy chamberlain of his holiness on 9 March 1916. He was made auditor of the nunciature to Belgium
    on 3 February 1920.

    On 10 January 1925 Cicognani was appointed

    Spain
    on 16 May 1938. In April 1934, when Nuncio to Peru, he visited his brother, the
    Apostolic Delegate to the United States, whom Gaetano had not seen in seven years.[4]

    Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
    by Pope John.

    He died in Rome, at age 80, and is buried in the collegiate church of S. Michele in his native Brisighella.

    References

    1. ^ a b "The Vatican's No. 2". Time. 25 August 1961.
    2. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XVII. 1925. pp. 19, 35, 126. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
    3. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XX. 1928. p. 273. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
    4. ^ "In the Churches". Time. 30 April 1934.
    5. ISBN 978-0-19-933482-7
      . Retrieved 29 March 2018. However Canon 232 §3 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law then in force prohibited anyone having a brother who was a cardinal from being himself a cardinal.

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    Catholic Church titles
    Preceded by
    Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia

    1925–1928     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Apostolic Nuncio to Peru

    1928–1935     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Apostolic Nuncio to Austria

    1935–1938     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Apostolic Nuncio to Spain

    1938–1953     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Prefect of the Congregation of Rites

    1953–1954     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
    1954–1962     		Succeeded by
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