- Paolo Marella
infobox cardinalstyles
cardinal name=Paolo Cardinal Marella
dipstyle=His Eminence
offstyle=Your Eminence
See=Porto e Santa Rufina (suburbicarian)|Paolo Cardinal Marella (
January 25 ,1895 —October 15 ,1984 ) was an Italianprelate of theRoman Catholic Church . He served in theRoman Curia following a career as a delegate of theHoly See , and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.Biography
Paolo Marella was born in
Rome to Luigi and Vincenza (née Baldoni) Marella, and studied at thePontifical Roman Seminary and the Royal University. He was ordained to the priesthood by Basilio Cardinal Pompilj onFebruary 23 ,1918 , and then furthered his studies whilst doing pastoral work in Rome until 1922.From 1922 to 1924, Marella was an official of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in the
Roman Curia . He was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness onJanuary 9 ,1923 , and later Domestic Prelate of His Holiness onApril 5 ,1933 . He then served asaudit or (1924-1933) and "charge d'affaires " (February to September 1933) of the Apostolic Delegation to the United States.On
September 15 ,1933 , Marella was appointed Titular Archbishop of "Doclea" byPope Pius XI . He received his episcopal consecration on the followingOctober 29 from Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi, with ArchbishopsCarlo Salotti andDomenico Spolverini serving as co-consecrators, at thechapel of "Collegio de Propaganda Fide" in Rome. Marella was named Apostolic Delegate toJapan the next day, onOctober 30 . In 1942, when the Vatican accepted "de facto" diplomatic relations with Japan, Marella was given "full diplomatic privileges" [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777719,00.html Rising Sun a the Vatican]April 6 ,1942 ] . He was made Apostolic Delegate toAustralia ,New Zealand , andOceania onOctober 27 ,1948 .Also in the 1940s, Marella was sent to
France as an agent ofPope Pius XII when he was aiming to stamp out the Worker-Priest movement that the Pope believed Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard had been supporting despite his protests otherwise. Although Suhard's death in 1949 greatly eased Pius's task, it was not until Marella succeeded Archbishop Angelo Roncalli asNuncio toFrance onApril 15 ,1953 that the suppression was completed.Pope John XXIII created Cardinal Priest of "S. Andrea delle Fratte" in theconsistory ofDecember 14 ,1959 . AppointedArchpriest ofSt. Peter's Basilica andPrefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Fabric of St. Peter's Basilica onAugust 14 ,1961 , Marella attended theSecond Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave, which selectedPope Paul VI .He acted as
papal legate to the inauguration of the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair onFebruary 20 ,1964 , presiding over the unveiling of the "Pietà" and presenting Francis Cardinal Spellman with a topaz brooch once worn by Pius XII as a gift from Pope Paul [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871117,00.html Flying Red Hats]May 22 ,1964 ] . Marella returned home with four honorary doctorates, including one from the Catholic University of America, which had prohibited four liberal theologians from deliveringlecture s there the previous year, for which the conservative Cardinal Marella commended the university.He became President of the Secretariat for Non-Christians on
May 19 ,1964 , and again served as a papal legate, to the eighth centennial celebration of the erection of Notre-Dame Cathedral inParis (May 27 ,1964 ), to the centennial celebration for the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries in Japan inTokyo (January 12 ,1965 ), and to the National Congress of the Confederation of the Christian Doctrine inPittsburgh (August 28 ,1966 ).In 1970, Marella served as the papal representative to
Expo '70 inOsaka . 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 theSacred College of Cardinals .References
External links
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-m.htm#Marella Biography]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.