Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani O.F.M. (13 April 1888 – 30 August 1953) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who became an archbishop in 1929 and led jurisdictions in Greece and Ethiopia. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1945 to 1953.

Biography

Giovanni Castellani was born in Civitella, in the Diocese of Todi, Italy, on 13 April 1888. He was ordained a priest of the Franciscans on 4 September 1910. On 5 January 1929,

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appointed him Archbishop of Rhodes, Greece. He received his episcopal consecration on 2 April 1929 from Cardinal

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in the

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. On 25 March 1937, Pope Pius named him titular archbishop of Perge, Apostolic Delegate to Italian East Africa, and Vicar Apostolic of Addis Abeda, Ethiopia. On 18 December 1945,

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named him Apostolic Nuncio to both

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and

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. He took up a position in the offices of the Secretariat of State in Rome on 23 August 1951. He died in Rome on 30 August 1953.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani
{{DEFAULTSORT:Castellani, Giovanni 1888 births 1953 deaths People from the Province of Perugia Franciscan bishops Apostolic nuncios to Guatemala Apostolic nuncios to El Salvador