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Angelo Dell'Acqua | |
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| Vicar General for Rome Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 13 January 1968 |
| Term ended | 27 August 1972 |
| Predecessor | Luigi Traglia |
| Successor | Ugo Poletti |
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| Ordination | 9 May 1928 by Eugenio Tosi |
| Consecration | 27 December 1958 by Pope John XXIII |
| Created cardinal | 26 June 1967 byPope Paul VI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Born | Angelo Dell'Acqua 9 December 1903 |
| Died | 27 August 1972(1972-08-27) (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Motto | Tamquam acqua decurrens |
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| Styles of Angelo Dell'Acqua | |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Rome (vicariate) |
Angelo Dell'Acqua (9 December 1903 – 27 August 1972) was an Italiancardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served asvicar general of Rome from 1968-1972, and was elevated to thecardinalate in 1967.
Dell'Acqua was born inMilan to Giovanni Dell'Acqua and his wife Giuseppina Varalli. He studied at theseminaries inMonza and Milan (obtaining adoctorate in theology from the latter), and thePontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he earned adoctorate in canon law. After receiving thediaconate on 19 December 1925, Dell'Aqua wasordained apriest byEugenio Cardinal Tosi on 9 May 1926. He undertookpastoral ministry inMilan and wasprivate secretary to its archbishop from 1928 to 1929. After finishing his studies in 1931, he was raised to the rank ofprivy chamberlain of his holiness on 19 December of that same year. Dell'Acqua was secretary of theapostolic delegation toTurkey andGreece from 1931 to 1935. He then worked asrector of theRomanian Pontifical College until 1938, during which time he was named adomestic prelate of his holiness on 15 June 1936.
In 1938, Dell'Acqua entered theRoman Curia, as a staff member of theSecretariat of State, whilst performing pastoral work in Rome until 1950. During this time, he sowed skepticism over reports of the mass-murder of Jews inthe Holocaust sent byUkrainian Greek Catholic ArchbishopAndrey Sheptytsky, claiming that Jews "easily exaggerate" and that "Orientals" (that is,Eastern Catholics) "are really not an example of honesty".[1]
He was later made adjunctundersecretary of theSacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (28 August 1950). On 1 November 1954, he succeeded ArchbishopGiovanni Battista Montini, who was named Archbishop of Milan on the same day, as substitute of theSecretariat of State.
On 14 December 1958, Dell'Acqua was appointedTitular Archbishop ofChalcedon byPope John XXIII. He received hisepiscopal consecration on the following 27 December from Pope John, with Bishops Girolamo Bortignon,O.F.M. Cap., and Gioacchino Muccin serving asco-consecrators. From 1962 to 1965, Dell'Acqua attended theSecond Vatican Council.
Pope Paul VI created himcardinal-priest ofSs. Ambrogio e Carlo in theconsistory of 26 June 1967, in advance of Dell'Acqua's appointment as the first president of thePrefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See on 23 September of that same year. Cardinal Dell'Acqua was namedvicar general of Rome and thus the person in charge of the pastoral care of the diocese on behalf of theBishop of Rome, and represented Paul VI at the funeral ofSenator Robert Kennedy on 8 June 1968. Cardinal Dell'Acqua receivedhonorary doctorates fromLoyola University,University of Chicago andFordham University that same year. He was also a close friend of CardinalGiacomo Lercaro.[2]
Dell'Acqua died from a sudden heart attack at the entrance of theRosary Basilica during apilgrimage toLourdes, at age 68. Initially buried in his family's tomb at theSesto Calende cemetery, his remains were transferred on 31 August 1997, to theparish church in Sesto Calende where he had been ordained to the priesthood.
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| Position created | President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See 23 September 1967 – 13 January 1968 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran 7 November 1970 – 27 August 1972 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Vicar General of Rome 13 January 1968 – 27 August 1972 | |
| Titulus restored | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo 29 June 1967 – 27 August 1972 | |
