Ambrose Battista De Paoli (August 19, 1934 – October 10, 2007) was an American prelate of the

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who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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Biography

De Paoli was born in

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and was ordained a priest on December 18, 1960, for the Archdiocese of Miami,

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. He earned a doctorate in canon law at the

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. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the

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in 1964. He entered the diplomatic corps in 1966. On September 23, 1983,

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named him a titular bishop and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Sri Lanka. He was consecrated a bishop on November 20, 1983, by Cardinal

Agostino Casaroli Agostino Casaroli (24 November 1914 – 9 June 1998) was an Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was the most important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the persecutio ...

. On February 6, 1988, Pope John Paul appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Southern Africa and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Lesotho. He was then given additional titles as the Delegation to Southern Africa was transformed into country-specific missions, including Apostolic Nuncio to Swaziland on April 17, 1993; Apostolic Delegate to Namibia and to Botswana on March 5, 1994; and Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa on June 25, 1994. On November 11, 1997, he was named nuncio to

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. On December 18, 2004, he was named nuncio to

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. He died from complications of leukemia in

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, on October 10, 2007.

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