Michele Giordano

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Michele Cardinal Giordano (born September 26, 1930 in San Arcangelo, Italy) is the archbishop emeritus of Naples, Italy, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Styles of Michele Cardinal Giordano


Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Naples (emeritus)

In 1999, he was charged with funneling church funds to his brother in what prosecutors alleged was a loan sharking ring. To the surprise of the Italian press, a judge acquitted him of those charges in December, 2000. In 2002, he was convicted and sentenced to four-and-a-half months confinement on charges of illegally subdividing a historic place. That case centered around his decision to convert property bequeathed to the church into apartments instead of creating a home for retired priests, as the heiress who bequeathed the property had wished. The criminal conviction has been rejected before Italy's highest criminal court on April 28th 2005^[1]