Poggi, Luigi

Luigi Poggi was born on November 25, 1917 in Piacenza, Italy . He was educated at the college of Alberoni, Piacenza , as well as at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum " S. Apollinare "; ( doctorate in utroque iuris ). The doctor is both right . He was ordained a priest on July 28, 1940 . Pastoral ministry in the diocese of Piacenza in 1940-1942. After all his studies before the priestly ordination in Piacenza, he was sent to Rome in 1942 primarily to study diplomacy at the Pontifical Church Academy .

In doing all this, Poggi entered the service of the State Secretariat of the Holy See , where he worked for the next twenty years. He subsequently advanced to become the Court Prelate of Pope John XXIII in 1960 . Poggi was responsible for the mission of researching the legal status of titular churches in Tunisia during 1963 and 1964 ^{[ what? ]} .

On April 3, 1965, he was appointed apostolic delegate to Central Africa (which includes the modern states of Cameroon , Chad , Congo - Brazzaville , Gabon, and the Central African Republic ). Poggi also became the titular archbishop of Forontoniana. The ordination took place on May 9, 1965 , in the Basilica of San Carlo al Corso, in Rome , it was held by Cardinal Amleto Giovanni Cicognani , Cardinal Bishop with the title of Suburbic Diocese of Frascati - assisted by the Secretary of State of the Vatican , accompanied by Antonio Zamora - Titular Archbishop , Secretary of the Holy Congregation for Extraordinary Church Affairs and Umberto Malkiodi, Archbishop - Bishop of Piacenza. He became Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Church Affairs in 1966 .

He continued to serve as a nuncio in Africa and South America during the second half of the 1960s , pro-nuncio in Cameroon from October 31, 1966 to May 21, 1969 . Pro-nuncio in Gabon from October 31, 1967 to May 21, 1969. Pro-nuncio in the CAR from November 4, 1967 to May 21, 1969. Apostolic Nuncio in Peru from May 21, 1969 to August 1, 1973 .

But then they criticized the role of Pope Paul VI in his Ostpolitik ( Eastern Policy ), which sought to improve the Vatican’s relations with the Stalinist nations of the Warsaw Pact . This role reached its highest importance at the beginning of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II , when Poggi, due to his knowledge of Polish politics at that time, was first sent to Warsaw and then to the Kremlin to negotiate with Moscow . He later visited Prague . Nuncio with special powers to improve relations with Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Bulgaria from August 1, 1973 . Head of the Vatican delegation on permanent working contact with Poland since February 7, 1975 .

Critics of John Paul II saw his sending Poggi to the Eastern Bloc as an effort by the pope to govern and dictate Lech Walesa's resistance policy to the military government of Wojciech Jaruzelski .

After his work in the Eastern Bloc, on April 19, 1986, Poggi became a papal nuncio in Italy and San Marino , and in this role was able to stay close to the center of action of the Church under Pope John Paul II ^{[ what? ]} .

On April 9, 1992, Poggi became a pro-archivist and pro-librarian of the Church of Rome, a post that involves a rise to cardinality . On the consistory of November 26, 1994 , after his seventy-seventh birthday, Luigi Poggi was elevated to cardinal deacon with the titular deaconess of Santa Maria in Domnica and became the archivist and librarian of the Roman Church . After reaching the maximum age limit (80 years) for voting in the Conclave, Poggi resigned from his posts in the Vatican Library and the Vatican Archive, but returned to work in relations with countries of Eastern Europe .

Cardinal Poggi was a cardinal protodeacon since February 26, 2002 , until he was elevated to the rank of cardinal priest on February 24, 2005 , but because of his age he did not participate in the Conclave , who elected Pope Benedict XVI .

Cardinal Luigi Poggi died on the morning of May 4, 2010 in Rome ^[2] .

• Biography of Poggi
• The official Vatican biography