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.

* Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Albano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, former Cardinal Secretary of State

* Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

The Secretariat of State, under the Cardinal Secretary of State, directs and coordinates the Curia.

** Cardinal Secretary of State

Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 1655 ) recalled Chigi to Rome and subsequently made him Cardinal Secretary of State and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo.

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.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

Pacelli was made a Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo on 16 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI, and within a few months, on 7 February 1930, Pius XI appointed him Cardinal Secretary of State, responsible for foreign policy and state relations throughout the world.

As Cardinal Secretary of State, Pacelli signed concordats with a number of countries and states.

Immediately on becoming Cardinal Secretary of State, Pacelli and Ludwig Kaas took up negotiations on a Baden Concordat which continued until the spring and summer of 1932.

Historian Walter Bussmann argued that Pacelli, as Cardinal Secretary of State, dissuaded Pope Pius XI – who was nearing death at the time – from condemning the Kristallnacht in November 1938, when he was informed of it by the papal nuncio in Berlin.

" His various positions on Church and policy issues during his tenure as Cardinal Secretary of State were made public by the Holy See in 1939.

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

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.

Antonio Canizares Llovera is the Cardinal Prefect, Archbishop Arthur Roche is the Secretary, and Father Anthony Ward, S. M., is Under-secretary.

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

* November 30 – Cardinal Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, is named French Secretary of State by young king Louis XIII.

It was approved in a Plenary meeting of the Congregation, and bears the signature of its then Prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and of its then Secretary, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, now Cardinal Secretary of State.

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.

Category: Cardinal Secretaries of State

Category: Cardinal Secretaries of State

Category: Cardinal Secretaries of State

The Cardinal nephew maintained that Clement X, within his own State, might make what rules he pleased.

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.

The replacement of Tommaso Bernetti by Luigi Lambruschini as Cardinal Secretary of State in 1836 did nothing to appease the situation.

** Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este at Ferrara.

* Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este.

* Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este at Ferrara.

On Monday, July 23, 2012, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, who until then had been the Secretary, or second-highest official, of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and Titular Archbishop of Duklja, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló as the new Vice-Camerlengo ( Chamberlain ) of the Holy Roman Church, to serve under Cardinal Bertone.

After the cardinal's death Marenzio served at the court of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este, who was a friend of Madruzzo ; according to Marenzio himself, writing in the dedication of his first madrigal book, he was the cardinal's maestro di cappella, although Luigi's musical establishment only included a handful of musicians.

During his period of employment with Cardinal Luigi d ' Este Marenzio began to establish an extensive reputation as a composer.

Following the appointment at San Luigi dei Francesi, he was associated with Cardinal Montalto, a wealthy and influential patron of art and music, and may have served as teacher, composer, and archivist for the Cardinal at his church, San Lorenzo in Damaso.

Born in Rome, Pier Luigi was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese ( who later became Pope Paul III ).

Pier Luigi Alexander Farnese was born in 1503 from the union between Cardinal Alexander Farnese ( future Pope Paul III ) and probably Silvia Ruffini-a Roman noblewoman who also gave birth with Alexander to three other children: Constanza, Paul and Ranuccio.

Coveney was born in Tracton, County Cork, Ireland, and was ordained, aged twenty-four, as a priest on 21 February 1959 by Cardinal Luigi Traglia.

He became close friends with Luigi Cardinal Chiaramonte, the man who would become Pope Pius VII, after singing a cantata sometime in his teenage years.

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.

Several bishops ( Luigi Negri, prelate of San Marino-Montefeltro, Gianni Danzi, prelate of Loreto, Giancarlo Vecèrrica, prelate of Fabriano-Matelica, in Italy ; Filippo Santoro, prelate of Petrópolis, Giuliano Frigeni, prelate of Parintins, Giancarlo Petrini, auxiliary prelate of Salvador de Bahia, and Guido Zendron, prelate of Paulo Afonso, in Brazil ; Javier Martinez, archbishop of Granada, Spain ; Paolo Pezzi, archbishop-designate of the Diocese of the Mother of God, Moscow, Russia ) and one cardinal, ( Angelo Scola, Cardinal of Milan ) are former members ; all of them have officially withdrawn from activity in CL immediately upon elevation to the episcopacy.

Son of Pier Luigi Farnese, the illegitimate son of Pope Paul III, Farnese was created Cardinal at the age of 15 by his grandfather the pope: he was nicknamed the cardinalino (" small cardinal ") for his young age.

De Foix dying in 1584, d ' Ossat remained at Rome, supervising the French embassy for a year, and then becoming secretary successively to Cardinal Luigi d ' Este and François de Joyeuse, two cardinals successively in charge of French affairs at Rome.

Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, V. G., and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.

The façade was designed by Cardinal Luigi Alessandro Omodei, who did not like the project prepared by Carlo Rainaldi.

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

Brady was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Luigi Traglia on 22 February 1964.