Giovanni Saldarini (11 December 1924 – 18 April 2011) was an Italian Cardinal and

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in the Italian province of Como, in Lombardy. He was educated at St Peter Martyr

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in Venegono and the Theological Faculty, Milan. He was ordained to the priesthood on 31 May 1947 in

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, by Alfredo Schuster then Archbishop of

. He taught at the archiepiscopal school in

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from 1947 until 1949. After further studies in Rome he was a faculty member at the Seminary of Venegono from 1952 until 1967. After this he worked as a parish priest in the archdiocese of Milan until 1982. He was named Honorary Prelate on 24 April 1979.

Episcopate

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appointed him

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of Gaudiaba and auxiliary bishop of Milan on 10 November 1984. He was consecrated that December by Cardinal

Carlo Maria Martini Carlo Maria Martini (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian Jesuit, cardinal of the Catholic Church and a Biblical scholar. He was Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2004 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. A towering ...

, assisted by Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, (then Archbishop Emeritus of Milan). He remained as an auxiliary bishop of Milan until he was appointed

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(deaconry elevated

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to presbyteral title) in the

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of 28 June 1991. He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese because of bad health, at the age of 74 on 19 June 1999. After his resignation Saldarini resided in the parish of S. Francesco di Paola, via Montenapoleone. He lost the right to participate in a

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when he turned 80 years old in 2004.Holy See Press Office
/ref> Cardinal Saldarini died on 18 April 2011, in Clinica San Giuseppe, Milan, He was buried in the Cathedral of Turin.

References

Bibliography

Martin Bräuer, ''Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012'' (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014). {{DEFAULTSORT:Saldarini, Giovanni 1924 births 2011 deaths People from Cantù 21st-century Italian cardinals Archbishops of Turin 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II 20th-century Italian cardinals