Antonio Magnoni (13 June 1919 – 18 March 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent forty years of his fifty-year career in the diplomatic service of the

Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of R ...

, interrupted for a ten-year posting in the Roman Curia. He became an archbishop in 1980 and served as

Apostolic Nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international ...

until 1995.

Biography

Antonio Magnoni was born on 13 June 1919 in

Nonantola Nonantola ( Modenese: ) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is in the Po Valley about from Modena on the road to Ferrara. History In ancient times the territory of Nonantola ...

, Italy, the youngest of eleven children. He studied at the Seminary of Modena and was ordained a priest on 11 April 1943. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1952. He joined the diplomatic service of the

and was first assigned to the nunciature in Costa Rica on 1 March 1954, and then in Belgium and Chile. In 1964, he joined the staff of the Secretariat of State in Rome. On 8 April 1970, he became undersecretary of the

Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments it, Dicastero per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti , type = Dicastery , seal = Coat of arms Holy See.svg , seal_size = 100px , seal_caption = Coat of arms of the Holy See , logo = , p ...

. On 24 April 1980,

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

named him

titular archbishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

Boseta Boseta is an ancient suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa. It dates from the Roman era, but with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb ceased to effectively function. The current bishop is Marcos Pirán Gómez.

and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to

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and to Fiji and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean Region. He received his episcopal consecration in 1 June 1980 from Cardinal James Robert Knox. On 22 July 1989, Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Egypt. He retired from that position upon the appointment of his successor,

Paolo Giglio Paolo Giglio (20 January 1927 – 6 March 2016) was a Maltese prelate of the Catholic Church, who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1958 to 2002, with the rank of archbishop and nuncio from 1986. Biography Paolo Giglio was b ...

, on 25 March 1995, at the age of 75. He died of lung cancer in Rome on 18 March 2007.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Antonio Magnoni
{{DEFAULTSORT:Magnoni, Antonio 1919 births 2007 deaths Religious leaders from the Province of Modena Officials of the Roman Curia Apostolic Nuncios to New Zealand Apostolic Nuncios to Fiji Apostolic Nuncios to the Pacific Ocean Apostolic Nuncios to Egypt