Pietro Parente

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Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Pietro Parente

(1891-02-16)16 February 1891
Died29 December 1986(1986-12-29) (aged 95)
Vatican City
Previous post(s)
  • Archbishop of Perugia (1955–1959)
  • Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide (1959–1965)
  • Assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (1959–1965)
Alma mater
MottoVeritatem facientes in caritate
Styles of
Pietro Parente
His Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeePerugia

Pietro Parente (16 February 1891 in

cardinal
on 26 June 1967. At his peak he was regarded as one of the foremost Italian theologians.

Life

Parente began his education at the Metropolitan seminary of Benevento in the 1900s and soon moved to Rome to study. His ability as a theologian was very well known even before he was ordained in 1916, and immediately after ordination he became a seminary rector in Naples, a role he was to hold for a decade, after which Parente transferred to the prestigious Pontifical Lateran University and briefly from 1934 to 1938 to the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum. Parente then went back to Naples to found the Faculty of Theology and Canon Law in his former seminary, and he was again rector from 1940 to 1955.

During this period of seminary teaching, Parente wrote frequently for the Vatican newspaper

New Theology to describe the writings of Marie-Dominique Chenu and Louis Charlier in that paper in 1942, and was influential behind the encyclical Humani generis that condemned those theologians eight years later. He was the assessor of most of the cases done by the Holy Office during these years and knew Pope Pius XII
personally.

Bishop

Parente was

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965, Parente became secretary, but he was viewed by Paul VI as too outspoken in personality to be given the job of prefect - which was given to the lesser-known but friendly and tactful Yugoslav Franjo Šeper
. Parente was elevated to the cardinalate on 26 June 1967, ceasing thereupon to be Secretary of the Congregation, since that post, subordinate to that of Prefect, could not be held by a cardinal.

Although his knowledge and ability was still seen as very valuable in later years, Parente's days as one of the foremost theologians in the Vatican had largely gone by the time he became a cardinal. He was originally highly dubious about the Vatican rehabilitating

Galileo during the Vatican Council, but was less opposed to it by the time Pope John Paul II officially did so in 1979, and he spoke at the age of 91 on the 1700th anniversary of the conversion of Armenia
to Christianity in an effort to unite the Roman and Armenian Churches.

His age disqualified him from participating in the papal conclaves of 1978.

When he died in 1986, he was the oldest living cardinal, seven weeks shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

Parente and Pius XII

Parente, who is rumored to have assisted Pope Pius XII in preparing the

papacy is according to Parente, of divine
and not human origin. He used the papacy not only to teach the truth but also to bring together all Christians separated from the Holy Roman Catholic Church, but not by reducing basic the truth entrusted to the Church.

Canon Law
of 1918. It will be overcome with a compromise between conservativism and progressivism, maintaining the doctrinal basics and utilizing new language and culture. According to him, Pope Pius XII created the methodological apparatus for such a synthesis.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Alfredo Ottaviani,
in effect Prefect but titled Secretary
Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

7 December 1965 – 29 June 1967
Succeeded by
Records
Preceded by
Oldest living Member of the Sacred College

18 September 1982 – 29 December 1986
Succeeded by

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