After his election, he made Luigi Maglione his successor as Cardinal Secretary of State.

Cardinal Secretary of State Maglione instructed nuncio Marcone that " if your eminence can find a suitable occasion, he should recommend in a discreet manner, that would not be interpreted as an official appeal, that moderation be employed with regard to Jews on Croatian territory.

When received by the Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione on January 6, 1944, Weizsäcker stated, " If Germany as a bulwark against communism should fall, all of Europe will become communist.

Luigi Maglione ( 2 March 1877 – 23 August 1944 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Coat of Arms of Cardinal Maglione

Cardinal Maglione was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.

Cardinal Maglione died a year before the war's end in his native Casoria, from neuritis and circulatory ailments.

After his election as Pope Pius XII, Pacelli appointed Luigi Maglione as his successor as Cardinal Secretary of State.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

The Cardinal protodeacon, the senior cardinal deacon in order of appointment to the College of Cardinals, has the privilege of announcing a new pope's election and name ( once he has been ordained to the Episcopate ) from the central balcony at the Basilica of Saint Peter in Vatican City State.

Funeral of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 2005, presided over by Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI

The launching took place at the Permanent Observation Mission of the Vatican to the United Nations, with the presence of the Vatican's then State Secretary, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.

Present for the Vatican were Cardinal Merry del Val and next to him, Pacelli.

On 24 June 1914, just four days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Pacelli, together with Cardinal Merry del Val, represented the Vatican when the Serbian Concordat was signed.

The Apostolic Brief of his appointment, however, came from the new pope, Julius III on 24 May 1550, and he was named not Vatican Librarian, but Bibliothecarius Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae because he was the first Cardinal to be in charge of the library.

Benedict XIV was also responsible, along with Cardinal Passionei, for beginning the catalogue of the Vatican Library.

It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, currently Tarcisio Bertone, and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of Vatican City and the Holy See.

* The Cardinal ( 1963 ): a drama set in the Vatican hierarchy which earned Preminger his second Best Director Academy Award nomination

A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area considered healthier than the Vatican Hill or Lateran: His architects were Flaminio Ponzio and Ottaviano Nonni, called Mascherino ; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana ( the main facade on the Piazza ) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII.

Cardinal Caesar Baronius, the Vatican Librarian and historian ( d. 1609 ), recorded this voyage by Joseph of Arimathea, Lazarus, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Marcella and others in his Annales Ecclesiastici, volume 1, section 35.

The records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for Archbishop of York, Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge, and handled English ecclesiastical issues before the Roman Rota.

Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Lambruschini introduced him to Vatican congregations and to Pope Gregory XVI, who appointed Pecci on 14 February 1837, as personal prelate even before he was ordained priest on 31 December 1837, by the Vicar of Rome.

In July 16, 1935, Pope Pius XI declared Our Lady of Guadalupe to be the Heavenly Patroness of the Philippines and was signed and attested by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli ( later Pope Pius XII ).

* Edmund Szoka, Roman Catholic Cardinal and former President of the Governorate of Vatican City State

* Edmund Cardinal Szoka, Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

Michael realizes that the Immobiliare deal is an elaborate conspiracy among Lucchesi, Archbishop Gilday, and Vatican accountant Frederick Keinszig ( Helmut Berger ) to swindle him out of his money, and visits Cardinal Lamberto ( Raf Vallone ), the man favored to become the next Pope, to speak about the deal.

Jean Madiran, a critic of Vatican II and founder-editor of the French journal Itinéraires, claimed that this letter was fraudulently presented to the elderly and already blind cardinal for his signature by his secretary, Monsignor ( and future Cardinal ) Gilberto Agustoni, and that Agustoni resigned shortly afterwards.

Cardinal Mariano Rampolla took note of him and furthered his entry in the diplomatic service of the Vatican in 1882, where he was employed by Rampolla as a secretary and soon to be posted to Madrid.

These allegations were rejected by the Vatican ’ s Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri, who wrote on 4 March 1916 that the Holy See is completely impartial and does not favor the Allied side.

On 11 April 1919, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri informed the Estonian authorities that the Vatican would agree to have diplomatic relations.

Moreover, Senior Vatican officer Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, who has seen the film, addressed the matter so:

Antonio Agliardi ( September 4, 1832 – March 19, 1915 ) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.

* Francesco Barberini, seniore of Florence ( 1597 – 1679 ), Cardinal and diplomat

* Pierre de Bérulle of France ( 1575 – 1629 ), Cardinal and diplomat

* May 9 – Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1373 )

The whole event was planned and executed by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a charismatic, eloquent master diplomat who as a papal legate had immense power in the name of the pope ( Leo X at the time of the meeting ).

* Cardinal Agostino Casaroli ( 1914 – 1998 ), Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, Cardinal Secretary of State ( 1979 – 1990 ).

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

In Rome, Handel met Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, a diplomat and spare-time librettist ; the result of this meeting was a collaboration which produced Handel's second Italian opera, Agrippina.

" On 19 August Kirkpatrick had a further discussion with Cardinal Pacelli in which he expressed his " disgust and abhorrence " at Hitler's reign of terror to the diplomat.

Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin and comte de La Roche des Aubiers ( 1 November 1593 – 17 February 1659 ) was a French diplomat who served Cardinal Mazarin and signed for the French the Treaty of Westphalia.

Agostino Casaroli ( 24 November 1914 – 9 June 1998 ) was an Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, who became Cardinal Secretary of State.

Among the best-known people who have attended Sapienza University of Rome are Somali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke ; Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ; Italian political leaders Franco Frattini and Antonio Tajani ; Italian Constitutional Court President Leopoldo Elia ; Roman Catholic Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe ; Nobel Laureate in Physics Emilio Segrè ; actors Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica ; archaeologist Carlo Fea ; architects Pietro Belluschi, Romaldo Giurgola and Massimiliano Fuksas ; astronaut Umberto Guidoni ; civil servant Mario Catania ; diplomat Sergio Balanzino ; economists Paolo Leon, Mario Draghi and Ignazio Visco ; footballers Valerio Fiori and Andrea Stramaccioni ; mathematicians Ennio De Giorgi and Gaetano Fichera ; microbiologist Clelia Giacobini ; physicists Domenico Pacini, Piero Giorgio Bordoni, Giovanni Ciccotti and Giorgio Parisi ; writers Daria Galateria and Cristina Ali Farah

The Cardinal was a distinguished diplomat who wrote libretti in his spare time, and acted as an unofficial theatrical agent for the Italian royal courts.

Arnaud d ' Ossat ( 20 July 1537 – 13 March 1604 ) was a French diplomat and writer, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, whose personal tact and diplomatic skill steered the perilous course of French diplomacy with the Papacy in the reign of Henry IV of France.

The nunciature to the United States is considered a highly important post and therefore is normally filled by a very experienced Vatican diplomat, historically nuncios to the United States have often been elevated to the rank of Cardinal in consistory shortly after their service, and been given senior posts within the Vatican itself.

Ferdinando d ' Adda ( 27 August 1650 – 27 January 1719 ) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, bishop and diplomat.

* Gaetano Bedini ( 15 May 1806-6 September 1864 ) Cardinal and diplomat of the Catholic Church.

Papal diplomat Monsignor ( not yet Cardinal ) Mazarini sends Jesuit Father Heinzerling to report on Grantville.

Matthäus Schiner ( Schinner ) ( c. 1465 – 1 October 1522 ) was a Swiss bishop of Sion, Cardinal, and diplomat.