Ernesto Eugenio Filippi
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Ernesto Eugenio Filippi (17 May 1879 – 23 August 1951) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Monreale in Sicily from 1925 until his death in 1951. He also worked briefly in the diplomatic service of the
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, as Apostolic Delegate to Mexico from 1921 to 1923 and Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople from 1923 to 1925.


Biography

Ernesto Eugenio Filippi was born on 17 May 1879 in
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, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 21 September 1901. On 22 July 1921,
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appointed him titular archbishop of
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and Apostolic Delegate to Mexico. He received his episcopal consecration on 7 August 1921. He initially established cordial relations with the government, but was quickly drawn into the contentious relationship between the Church hierarchy and the anti-clerical political establishment. The government was enforcing a ban on political movements with a religious affiliation, which restricted the ability of Catholic lay associations to advocate for change in Church-state relations. In response, clandestine Catholic associations were operating with the almost universal support of the Mexican bishops and sometimes under their leadership. Filippi was suspicious of this approach from the first and as he gathered information he only became more negative, fearful of provoking further government repression, especially if he was correct in believing that the associations sheltered advocates of violent revolution. Before he could report fully to his superiors in Rome, he ran afoul of a different government restriction. For decades, Mexico had banned religious rites in public. In January 1923, when he had been in Mexico more than a year, Filippi led a group of bishops in blessing the cornerstone of a monument to Christ the King being constructed on a hillside near
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. The government of President Alvaro Obregón deemed this a violation of its prohibition on public religious ceremonies and deported Filippi, provoking popular protests. On 31 March 1923,
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named him Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople. On 6 April 1925, Pope Pius appointed him
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appointed
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to serve as Archbishop Coadjutor there. He died on 23 August 1951 at the age of 72.


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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Ernesto Eugenio Filippi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Filippi, Ernesto Eugenio 1879 births 1951 deaths People from the Province of L'Aquila Apostolic Nuncios to Mexico Apostolic Nuncios to Turkey