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| See | Caesariana |
Angelo FeliciJ.C.D. (26 July 1919,Segni – 17 June 2007,Rome) was an ItalianCardinal in theRoman Catholic Church andPresident of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. Before this role he served as the Prefect of theCongregation for the Causes of Saints from 1988 to 1995.
He was ordained on 4 April 1942 and spent the next three years studying for hisdoctorate incanon law.[1] In 1945 he joined the VaticanSecretariat of State where he worked until 1949. He was a faculty member at thePontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, until he was appointed under-secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1964.
Pope Paul sent him on a mission toJerusalem after theSix-Day War between Arabs and Israelis.[2]Pope Paul VI appointed him astitular archbishop ofCaesariana and appointedpro-nuncio to theNetherlands on 22 July 1967. He was consecrated as abishop in September of the same year. His nine years in the Netherlands were known for their sharp conflicts within the Catholic Church, among other things about the celibacy issue and about two bishop's nominations that were supposed to be extremely conservative (Adrianus Johannes Simonis andJoannes Gijsen). He was transferred toPortugal in 1976 and finally toFrance in 1979.
He was madeCardinal-Deacon ofSanti Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in theconsistory of 28 June 1988 byPope John Paul II. In 1988, he was appointed Prefect of theCongregation for the Causes of Saints, where he served until 1995. Then he was appointed President of thePontifical CommissionEcclesia Dei. As Cardinal Deacons are permitted to do after ten years, he opted for the order of cardinal priests and histitular church was elevatedpro hac vice to the rank of title on 9 January 1999. He lost the right to participate in aconclave when he turned 80 years of age in 1999.
On 17 June 2007, Cardinal Felici died; PopeBenedict XVI sent his condolences and, on 19 June 2007, presided at Cardinal Felici's funeral Mass at the Altar of theCathedra inSaint Peter's Basilica in theVatican.
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| Preceded by | — TITULAR — Bishop of Caesariana 1967–1988 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints 1 July 1988 – 13 June 1995 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei 16 December 1995 – 13 April 2000 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by CardinalJohannes Willebrands | Oldest living Member of the Sacred College 2 August 2006 – 11 June 2007 | Succeeded by CardinalÉdouard Gagnon |
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