Edoardo Menichelli (born 14 October 1939) is an Italian prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church
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. He served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of
Ancona-Osimo from 2004 to 2017.
Pope Francis
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made him a
cardinal
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on 14 February 2015.
Biography
Early life
Edoardo Menichelli was born in Serripola in
San Severino Marche
San Severino Marche is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona and about southwest of Macerata.
History
From prehistory to Roman age
The oldest remains of human pre ...
in
province of Macerata
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and the
Diocese of San Severino Marche on 14 October 1939. He studied theology and philosophy at institutional seminars of San Severino Marche and
Fano
Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by popula ...
and then at the
Pontifical Lateran University
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in Rome, where he obtained a licentiate in pastoral theology.
Priesthood and career
On 3 July 1965 he was ordered a priest of the Diocese of San Severino Marche. He then became assistant pastor in the parish of St. Joseph in San Severino Marche and taught religion in state schools. On 30 September 30, 1986, with the unification of the Diocese of San Severino Marche with the Archdiocese of Camerino, he was assigned to the new
Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche
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.
From 1968 to 1991 he served in the
Roman Curia in the
Apostolic Signatura
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, then from 1992 to 1994 in the secretariat for the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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, where he met the Cardinal
Achille Silvestrini
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and became his secretary.
Episcopate
On 10 June 10, 1994, he was appointed by
Pope John Paul II
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as Archbishop of
Chieti-Vasto. He was consecrated bishop on 9 July in Rome by Cardinal Silvestrini, with Archbishops
Antony Valentini
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and
Piergiorgio Nesti Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti (11 February 1931 – 13 December 2009) was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
Ordained on 30 August 1959, Nesti was appointed archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche on 23 July 1993 ...
as co-consecrators. He spent ten years in Chieti. On 8 January 2004,
Pope John Paul II
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appointed him Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo, and he took possession of the archdiocese on 7 March. He has been secretary of the Committee for the family of the
Italian Episcopal Conference
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and has headed committees for the family, ecumenism and the pastoral care of leisure for the Marche bishops' conference.
On 15 October 2014, on reaching his 75th birthday, he submitted his resignation as require by canon law but Pope Francis has extended the appointment for one year.
Cardinalate
On 4 January 2015
Pope Francis
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announced Menichelli would be made a cardinal at a consistory on 14 February. He was assigned the titular church of
Sacri Cuori di Gesù e Maria a Tor Fiorenza.
He was appointed a member of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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and of the
.
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop on 14 July 2017.
On 30 September 2017 Francis named him a member of the
Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
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.
See also
*
Cardinals created by Pope Francis
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References
External links
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1939 births
Living people
21st-century Italian cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Francis
21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Pontifical Lateran University alumni
Members of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
People from the Province of Macerata