Angelo Pedroni (22 April 1914 – 24 June 1992) was a prelate of the

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who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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, with the title of nuncio from 1965 until his retirement in 1989 and the rank of archbishop from 1965 until his death.

Biography

Angelo Pedroni was born in

Maccagno Maccagno was a ''comune'' (municipality) of 2,000 inhabitants located in the province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located in the Val Veddasca about 70 km northwest of Milan and about 25 km northwest of Varese. On 1 January ...

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, Italy, on 22 April 1914. He earned his licenciate in theology at the

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. He was ordained a priest on 13 March 1937 and served as parish priest at Saints Nabor and Felix in Milan for five years. He received his doctorate in jurisprudence in 1942 and a doctorate in canon law from the

in 1944. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the

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in 1945. His assignments in the diplomatic service of the Holy See included Cairo until 1951; a stint in Paris in 1952–3 as secretary to the nuncio, Angelo Roncalli, the future

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; Rome as secretary to the committee for the Marian year 1954 followed by a few years at the Secretariat of State. On 4 November 1960, he was named

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(Paris). On 7 April 1965,

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appointed him

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and

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to Thailand, Laos, and the Malacca Peninsula. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal

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in the

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in Milan on 22 May. In 1967, Pedroni worked in the Secretariat of State in Rome. On 19 July 1969, Pope Paul appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to

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. On 15 March 1975 Pope Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. On 6 July 1983,

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appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to

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, and the

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. On 13 June 1989, Pope John Paul accepted his resignation which he had submitted for reasons of age after turning 75.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Angelo Pedroni
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pedroni, Angelo Apostolic Nuncios to Belgium Apostolic Nuncios to Costa Rica Apostolic Nuncios to Syria Apostolic Nuncios to Thailand Apostolic Nuncios to the European Union Permanent Observers of the Holy See to the United Nations People from the Province of Varese 1914 births 1992 deaths