Giuseppe Pizzardo

His Eminence Giuseppe Pizzardo
Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (1951–1959)

Styles of Giuseppe Pizzardo
Albano (suburbicarian )

Giuseppe Pizzardo (13 July 1877 – 1 August 1970) was an

from 1951 to 1959. Pizzardo was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937.

Biography

Born in Savona, Pizzardo studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare, and the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy before being ordained a priest on 19 September 1903.

From 1908 to 1909, he did

on 11 January 1927.

.

He was named president of the

from 14 March 1939 until his resignation on 13 January 1968.

He was named secretary of the

.

He was known as an early patron and mentor of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, who is said to have voted for Pizzardo at the 1963 papal conclave. Though they became more distant as Montini rose in power, Pope Paul's final trip away from his summer residence before his death in August 1978 was to a memorial Mass on the anniversary of Pizzardo's death.

Pizzardo was considered to be a highly conservative clergyman. He opposed the French worker-priest movement,^[1][2] and Catholic participation in the Protestant Cold War group, Moral Re-Armament.^[3]

Other roles

He was also involved in Azione Cattolica, serving on its Central Committee as ecclesiastical assistant in 1923 and president in 1938.

Appointed sub-dean of the College of Cardinals on 29 March 1965, Cardinal Pizzardo was one of the cardinal electors in the conclaves of 1939, 1958, and 1963.

References

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani	Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office 16 February 1951 – 12 October 1959	Succeeded by Alfredo Ottaviani
Records
Preceded by Augusto da Silva	Oldest living Member of the Sacred College 14 August 1968 – 1 August 1970	Succeeded by Benedetto Aloisi Masella