Luigi Maglione
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His Eminence Luigi Maglione |
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| Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana | |
| Appointed | 18 June 1936 |
| Term ended | 23 August 1944 |
| Predecessor | Francis Alphonsus Bourne |
| Successor | Jules-Géraud Saliège |
| Other posts | Cardinal Secretary of State (1939-1944) |
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| Ordination | 25 July 1901 |
| Consecration | 26 September 1920 by Pietro Gasparri |
| Created Cardinal | 16 December 1935 by Pope Pius XI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Luigi Maglione |
| Born |
2 March 1877 Casoria, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 23 August 1944 (aged 67) Casoria, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Fides et labor (Faith and work) |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
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Luigi Maglione (2 March 1877 – 23 August 1944) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935 and served as the Vatican Secretary of State under Pope Pius XII from 1939 until his death. Pius XII never replaced Maglione, opting to assume the responsibilities of the office himself, with the assistance of two undersecretaries.
Born in Casoria, Maglione was educated at the Almo Collegio Capranica and Pontifical Gregorian University, from where he obtained doctorates in philosophy and theology, in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 25 July 1901, and then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Naples until 1903.
Maglione studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 1905 to 1907; he later taught there from 1915 to 1918. He served an official of the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1908 to 1918, rising to become a Privy Chamberlain (17 June 1910) and a Domestic Prelate (22 February 1918). He was also a provisional papal representative to the League of Nations and a special papal envoy to Switzerland.
On 1 September 1920, Maglione was appointed Nuncio to Switzerland and Titular Archbishop of Cesarea di Palestina by Pope Benedict XV. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 26 September from Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, with Archbishops Bonaventura Cerretti and Lorenzo Schioppa serving as co-consecrators, in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. Archbishop Maglione was later named Apostolic Nuncio to France on 23 June 1926. Upon his arrival in France he was resentfully considered pro-German, but had become so liked by the French Government before he left the post that he was reported to have had a hand in forming the Hoare-Laval Pact during the Italo-Ethiopian War. During his nunciature in France, on 25 July 1930, Maglione ordained Yves Congar to the priesthood.
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