Vincenzo Fagiolo (5 February 1918 in

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– 22 September 2000) was an Italian cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts from 1990 until 1994.

Biography

Fagiolo was educated at the

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, the Seminary of

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and at the

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, earning

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s in

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and

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. He was ordained on 6 March 1943, and worked in the

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from 1943 to 1971. As a young priest at the parish of Saints Fabiano and Venanzio, Father Fagiolo assisted Father Pietro Palazzini, vice rector of the

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, in sheltering Jews from the Nazis, on the grounds of the

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. For this Fagiolo, Palazzini were honored in 1983 as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem. He attended the

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as an expert.

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appointed him Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto on 20 November 1971. He served as Vice-President of the

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from 1979 until 1984. Fagiolo was honoured by

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in 1983. He resigned the pastoral government of the

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15 July 1984. On 15 December 1990,

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named him President of the

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. He was created and proclaimed

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of S. Teodoro in the consistory of 26 November 1994. He was replaced as president of the Pontifical Council on 19 December 1994. He died on 22 September 2000.

References

External links

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