Ermenegildo Florit (5 July 1901 – 8 December 1985) was an Italian

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of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as

Archbishop of Florence The Archdiocese of Florence ( la, Archidioecesis Florentina) is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Italy.

from 1962 to 1977, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

Biography

Ermenegildo Florit was born in

Fagagna Fagagna ( fur, Feagne) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine. As of 2011, it had a population of 6,279 and an area of ...

, and attended the

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Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

, the

Pontifical Roman Seminary , type = Major seminary , established = , founder = Pope Pius IV , parent = Diocese of Rome , religious_affiliation = Catholic Church , rector = Gabriele Fara ...

, and the

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and

Pontifical Lateran University The Pontifical Lateran University ( it, Pontificia Università Lateranense; la, Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis), also known as Lateranum, is a pontifical university based in Rome. The university also hosts the central session of the Pont ...

in Rome. Before finishing his studies in 1927, he was

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to the priesthood on 11 April 1925. Florit served as a professor (1929–1954) and later the

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and vice-

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(1951–1954) at the Pontifical Lateran University, while also doing

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work in Rome. In 1951, he was made a

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and, on 21 August, a

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and

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. He received his

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on the following 12 September from Cardinal

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, with Archbishop

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and Bishop Emilio Pizzoni serving as

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, in the

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. Florit succeeded the late

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on 9 March 1962, and then attended the

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until 1965. During the council, he was heavily involved with the drafting of '' Dei verbum'', the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. Alberigo, Giuseppe & Komonchak, Joseph A. (2006). ''A Brief History of Vatican II''. Orbis Books.

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created him

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of Regina Apostolorum in the

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of 22 February 1965. In 1968, the cardinal engaged in a dispute with the popular Florentine priest Enzo Mazzi, whose rebellious attitude the former saw as a threat to "ecclesiastical unity"."Rebellion in the Backyard"
''

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''. 27 December 1968. Resigning as

's archbishop on 3 June 1977, Florit was one of the

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who participated in the

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and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and

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respectively. He died in Florence, at age 84, and is buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Other

*Florit once had

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References

External links

Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

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