Fiorenzo Angelini

[edit] Biography

Born in Rome, Angelini studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary, Pontifical Lateran University, and Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum before being ordained to the priesthood on February 3, 1940. He did pastoral work in Rome until 1956, and served as a chaplain in Azione Cattolica from 1945 to 1959. Angelini served as Master of Pontifical Ceremonies from 1947 to 1954, and for a few months he was delegate for Roman hospitals.

On June 27, 1956, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Messene by Pope Pius XII. Angelini received his episcopal consecration on the following July 29 from Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, with Archbishop Luigi Traglia and Bishop Ismaele Castellano serving as co-consecrators. He founded in 1959 the Italian Catholic Doctors' Association, and attended the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). On January 6, 1977, Pope Paul VI named him an Auxiliary Bishop of Rome. Pope John Paul II raised him to the rank of Archbishop and appointed him the first President of the newly created Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers on February 16, 1985. He was created Cardinal Deacon of Santo Spirito in Sassia by John Paul in the consistory of June 28, 1991.

Styles of Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini

Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Messene (titular see)

He retired as President of Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers on December 31, 1996, and on February 26, 2002, he exercised the right of becoming a Cardinal Priest after being ten years a Cardinal Deacon. Angelini has called for the opening of a cause for the beatification of French geneticist Jérôme Lejeune^[1], and has championed the cause for the canonization of Pius XII^[2].

Angelini lost his right to vote in any papal conclaves upon turning age 80 on August 1, 1996.

Preceded by none	President of Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers 1985—1996	Succeeded by Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragán