Giulio Einaudi (11 February 1928 – 28 December 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who devoted his entire career to the diplomatic service of the

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. He became an archbishop in 1977 and served as an Apostolic Nuncio from then until his death.

Biography

Giulio Einaudi was born on 11 February 1928 in

San Damiano Macra San Damiano Macra is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about northwest of Cuneo. San Damiano Macra borders the following municipalities: Cartignano, Castelm ...

, Italy. He was the son of a farmer and fought in the Italian infantry in

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. He attended the minor seminary of Sant'Agostino and the major seminary of San Nicola in Saluzzo. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1951. He worked for three years as deputy curate in the parish of the Cathedral of Saluzzo and then studied in Rome at the

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and the

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, earning degrees in theology in 1956 and canon law in 1960. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1958. He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 August 1960. From 1960 to 1965 he was secretary of nunciature in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, based in Bangkok. From 1965 to 1971 he was auditor in the nunciature to the United States, and from 1971 to 1974 counselor in the nunciatures to Rwanda and Burundi. From 1974 to 1976 he was councilor of the nunciature to Portugal. On 10 November 1976,

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 State from 21 June 1963 to his death in Augus ...

named him

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of Villamagna in Tripolitania and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan. He received his episcopal consecration in Saluzzo on 2 January 1977 from Cardinal

Agnelo Rossi Agnelo Rossi (4 May 1913 – 21 May 1995) was a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Biography Rossi was born on 4 May 1913 in Joaquim Egidio, Brazil, in the Diocese of Campinas. In 1933 h ...

. On 5 August 1980,

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the Cuba. He reinvigorated, with some success, the process of rapprochement between the Church and the Castro government, which had seen little progress in the five years before his appointment. On 23 September 1988, Pope Paul appointed him

Apostolic Nuncio to Chile The Apostolic Nuncio to Chile is the principal representative of the Pope to the Government of Chile. Apostolic Nuncios to Chile * Giovanni Alessandro Muzi (18 April 1823 – 19 December 1825) *Lorenzo Barili (26 May 1851 – 17 June 1856) * Vin ...

. On 29 February 1992, Pope John Paul appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia. He was the first nuncio to that newly independent nation, which the Holy See had been the first country to recognize. He retired upon the appointment of his successor,

Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián (born November 28, 1943) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been an archbishop since 1994 and held the title of Apostolic Nu ...

, on 4 August 2003. He died in Santa Croce Hospital in Cuneo on 28 December 2017 after being taken ill at his home in Busca.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Giulio Einaudi
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