Domenico Enrici (9 April 1909 – 3 December 1997) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the

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Biography

Domenico Enrici was born on 9 April 1909 in

Cervasca Cervasca is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about west of Cuneo. Cervasca borders the following municipalities: Bernezzo, Caraglio, Cuneo, Roccasparvera, and ...

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, Italy. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cuneo on 29 June 1933. To prepare for a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See he completed the course of study at the

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in 1935. His early assignments included a stint in Ireland beginning in 1938 and in Taiwan in the mid 1950s. On 17 September 1955,

Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...

appointed 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 ...

of Ancusa and

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Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. Giovanni Montini, the Archbishop of Milan, consecrated him a bishop on 1 November. On 30 January 1958, he was named Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti.

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...

appointed him Apostolic Internuncio to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

on 5 January 1960. On 1 October 1962, Pope John named him

Apostolic Delegate 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 o ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, New Zealand, and Oceania. He participated in the first and third sessions of

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. On 26 April 1969,

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain. He snubbed

Mervyn Stockwood Arthur Mervyn Stockwood (27 May 1913 – 13 January 1995) was a Church of England bishop who served as vicar of St Matthew's Church, Moorfields, then of Great St Mary's, Cambridge, and finally as Bishop of Southwark, retiring in 1980. Early l ...

, Church of England Bishop of Southwark, at a charity dinner because Stockwood had praised the work of birth control clinics. On 16 July 1973, he joined the staff of the Secretariat of State, but his work was not limited to Rome. He was described as a "roving ambassador ... on an inspection trip" when he visited Taiwan in February 1974. He represented the Holy See at the enthronement of Spain's King

Juan Carlos Juan Carlos I (;, * ca, Joan Carles I, * gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...

and the coronation of the Central African Empire's Emperor Bokassa. He was also acting president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1974–1975. He retired on 1 December 1979. He died on 3 December 1997.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Domenico Enrici
{{DEFAULTSORT:Enrici, Domenico Apostolic Nuncios to Australia Apostolic Nuncios to Haiti Apostolic Nuncios to Great Britain Apostolic Nuncios to Indonesia Apostolic Nuncios to Japan People from the Province of Cuneo 1909 births 1997 deaths Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni