Santità), also known as the Cardinal Secretary of State or the Vatican Secretary of State, presides over the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, the oldest...
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See, the administrative body of the Catholic Church, the cardinal secretary of state coordinates all the departments of the Roman Curia (and is in that...
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Pope Pius XII (redirect from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli)
Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, and Cardinal Secretary of State for the Holy See, in which capacity he worked...
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Angelo Sodano (redirect from Cardinal angelo sodano)
prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Dean of the College of Cardinals from 2005 to 2019 and previously as theCardinal Secretary of State from...
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Rafael Merry del Val (redirect from Merry Cardinal del Val)
bishop, Vatican official, and cardinal. Before becoming a cardinal, he served as the secretary of the papal conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X...
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bureaucracy of the Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of the Holy See...
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Pietro Parolin (redirect from Pietro Cardinal Parolin)
Vatican's Secretary of State since 2013, and has served as a member of the Council of Cardinals since 2014, the same year he was made a cardinal. Before...
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Holy See (redirect from Holy See (Vatican City State))
departments. The Cardinal Secretary of State is its chief administrator. Papal elections are carried out by members of the College of Cardinals. Although the Holy...
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Luigi Maglione (redirect from Luigi Cardinal Maglione)
the Roman Curia, he was Secretary of State from 1939 until his death in 1944. He became an archbishop in 1920 and a Cardinal in 1935. Born in Casoria...
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Domenico Tardini (redirect from Domenico Cardinal Tardini)
in the Secretariat of State. Pope John XXIII named him Cardinal Secretary of State and, in this position the most prominent member of the Roman Curia in...
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Tarcisio Bertone (redirect from Cardinal Bertone)
Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013. On 10 May 2008, he was named Cardinal-Bishop...
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Pope Benedict XV (redirect from Giacomo Cardinal della Chiesa)
activities throughout the Church. He named Gasparri to be his Cardinal Secretary of State and personally consecrated Nuncio Pacelli on 13 May 1917 as Archbishop...
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the institution of the cardinal-nephew declined as the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State increased and the temporal power of popes decreased in...
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cardinals), C9 (nine cardinals), C6 (six cardinals), and C7 (seven cardinals). The appointment of a group of eight advisers and one secretary to support the...
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Giacomo Antonelli (redirect from Giacomo Cardinal Antonelli)
as Cardinal Secretary of State for the Holy See from 1848 until his death. He played a key role in Italian politics, resisting the unification of Italy...
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Ercole Consalvi (redirect from Cardinal Consalvi)
24 January 1824) was a deacon and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who served twice as Cardinal Secretary of State for the Papal States and who played...
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Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of Government, and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State, on 11 February 1929. The agreements...
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Pope Clement IX (category Cardinal Secretaries of State)
cardinalate in 1657 as the Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto Vecchio and was also appointed as the Cardinal Secretary of State in 1655 which he held until...
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1903 papal conclave (redirect from Conclave of 1903)
blocking the election of the leading candidate, Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla. The pontificate of Leo XIII came to an end on 20 July 1903 after...
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Mariano Rampolla (redirect from Cardinal Rampolla)
March 1894, Pope Leo XIII named Cardinal Rampolla Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica. As Secretary of State, Cardinal Rampolla supported the Austrian...
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member of the Commission that handles some of the functions of head of state until a new pope can be chosen, along with the former Cardinal Secretary of State...
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Lateran Treaty (redirect from Treaty of Lateran)
agreements of the Lateran Pacts, signed—the Treaty says—for King Victor Emmanuel III by Mussolini and for Pope Pius XI by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro...
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Section for Relations with States (redirect from Secretary for Relations with States)
of three sections, of which this congregation was the first: The Office of the Secretariat of State, presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State...
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Vatican City (redirect from State of the City of the Vatican)
vacancies: Cardinal Secretary of State, Camerlengo, Chancellor, and Prefect for the Congregation for the Religious among them. Pius XII created 32 cardinals in...
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is appointed personal secretary to the Pope Silvio Orlando as Cardinal Angelo Voiello, Camerlengo and Cardinal Secretary of State Javier Cámara as Monsignor...
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cardinal and the first to serve as Cardinal Secretary of State in the Roman Curia. By the time of Pope Innocent X (1644–1655), the secretary of state...
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elected Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the camerlengo and cardinal secretary of state, who took the papal name Pius XII. The data below are as of 10 February...
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the title of "chief of the government" was reserved to the Cardinal Secretary of State. The office was created by the granting of the Statute of the Papal...
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cardinal electors attended. On the third ballot, the conclave elected Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber and cardinal secretary...
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Agostino Casaroli (redirect from Cardinal Casaroli)
who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was an important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the religious persecution of the Church in...
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