Paolo Cardinal Marella
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Paolo Cardinal Marella (born January 25, 1895, Rome, Italy); died October 15, 1984, Rome), was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was ordained in 1918 and served from then until 1924 in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. He then served as part of the papal diplomatic corps to the United States until 1933, when he was made a bishop and served successively as apostolic delegate to Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In the 1940s, Marella was sent to France as an agent of Pius XII when he was aiming to stamp out the worker-priests that Pius believed Cardinal Suhard had been supporting even though he protested otherwise. Although Suhard's death in 1949 greatly eased Pius' task, it was not until Marella succeeded Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII) as nuncio to France in 1953 that the suppression was completed.
After six years as nuncio to France, Marella was elevated to cardinal by John XXIII on December 14, 1959. He participated in the 1963 conclave that elected Pope Paul VI and became President of the Secretariat for Non-Christians the following year. However, Marella's major role during the 1960s was as a papal legate: to the 8th centennial celebration of the erection of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris during 1964, and to the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries in Japan during the following year.
In 1970, Marella served as the papal representative to Expo '70 in Osaka. His career then wound down during the 1970s, and he resigned his presidency of the Secretariat at the end of February 1973, whilst two years later he lost the right to vote in a papal conclave on reaching eighty. From December 12, 1977 until his death Marella was vice-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals.
