Giovanni Cardinal Colombo
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His Eminence Giovanni Cardinal Colombo (December 6, 1902—May 20, 1992) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1963, succeeding Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, until his resignation in 1979. Colombo was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
[edit] Biography
Giovanni Colombo was born in Caronno Pertusella, Lombardy, as the sixth of the seven children of Enrico and Luigia (née Millefanti) Colombo. His mother worked as a shirt-maker and embroiderer. Colombo was baptised on two days later, on December 8.
Initially studying with the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Ivrea, he then attended seminaries in Seveso, Monza, and Milan (where he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1926), and received a doctorate in letters from the Catholic University of Milan in 1932. Receiving the clerical tonsure on May 26, 1923, Colombo was eventually ordained to the priesthood by Eugenio Cardinal Tosi on May 29, 1926 in the Duomo di Milano.
He became Archbishop of Milan in 1963 and was created cardinal by Pope Paul VI on February 22, 1965. He participated in the Papal conclaves of August 1978 and October 1978. In the second conclave, with his health failing he obtained many votes as a compromise candidate between Giuseppe Cardinal Siri and Giovanni Benelli but he stated that he would decline the Papal Chair if elected[1] and so Cardinal Wojtyla was elected instead. He retired from the archdiocese in 1979.
| Preceded by Giovanni Battista Montini |
Archbishop of Milan 1963—1979 |
Succeeded by Carlo Maria Martini |
[edit] References
- ^ Thomas J. Reese, SJ; Inside The Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church; page 99, published 1996 by Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674932617
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