Ubaldo Calabresi (2 January 1925 – 14 June 2004) was an Italian

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bishop.

Biography

Calabresi was born on 2 January 1925 in

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, Italy, the fourth of six brothers. He earned degrees in civil and canon law at the Lateran University. He was ordained a priest there on 27 March 1948. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the

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in 1951. On 3 July 1969 he was named

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of Fundi and

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to the Red Sea Region. He was consecrated on 28 September 1969 by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal

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. He was named Apostolic Nuncio to

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on 5 January 1978. He was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to

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in 1981. On 27 June 1992 he was a co-consecrator when Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later

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, was made a bishop. He was a participant in the successful Vatican mediation between Argentina and

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over the Beagle conflict. He retired on 4 March 2000. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in Rome on 14 June 2004.

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