Paolo Giobbe

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Pontifical Roman Seminary
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Paolo Giobbe (10 January 1880 – 14 August 1972) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Papal Datary in the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Biography

Giobbe was born in Rome, and studied at the

Pontifical Urbaniana University from 1909 to 1918. In 1911, he was a Papal Ablegatus for the imposition of the red biretta on Cardinal Enrique Almaraz y Santos, Archbishop of Seville. Giobbe was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 6 November 1917, and rector
of the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1918.

On 30 March 1925, Giobbe was appointed

Second World War
) in the Netherlands – for any nuncio an unusually long period.

Giobbe was made

.

Giobbe died in Rome, at age 92, as the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. He is buried in the chapel of the Congregation for the Evangelization of the Peoples at the Campo Verano.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia

1925–1935
Succeeded by
Preceded by Nuncio to the Netherlands
1935–1959
Succeeded by
Preceded by Papal Datary
1959–1968
Succeeded by
none
Records
Preceded by
Oldest living Member of the Sacred College

30 September 1970 – 14 August 1972
Succeeded by