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Silvio Luoni (7 July 1920 – 11 April 1982) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Vatican's Secretariat of State and in the diplomatic service of the
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Biography

Silvio Luoni was born in
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, Italy, on 7 July 1920. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Milan on 1 October 1944. He joined the staff of the Secretariat of State in 1950 or 1953. On 12 September 1966, then a priest of the Diocese of Rome, he was made a
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appointed him Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. On 12 August 1971, Pope Paul appointed him Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva. On 15 May 1978,
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named him titular archbishop of Turris in Mauretania, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Thailand, and Apostolic Delegate to Laos, Malaysia, and Singapore. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Giovanni Umberto Colombo, Archbishop of Milan, on 25 June 1978.
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 head of the Vatican delegation to the Madrid conference of the
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(CSCE) in 1980/81. He died after a long illness in a Milan hospital on 11 April 1982 at the age of 61.


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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Silvio Luoni
{{DEFAULTSORT:Luoni, Silvio 1920 births 1982 deaths Officials of the Roman Curia Apostolic Nuncios to Singapore Apostolic Nuncios to Thailand Apostolic Nuncios to Laos Apostolic Nuncios to Malaysia People from the Province of Varese