Umberto Betti

Umberto Betti, O.F.M., S.T.D. (born in Pieve Santo Stefano, Tuscany, March 7 1922) is an Italian priest of Order of Friars Minor. On November 24, 2007, he was appointed a Cardinal-Deacon of the Roman Catholic Church.

Betti began his novitiate in the Province of St. Francis Stigmatised in Tuscany on July 23 1937, made his first profession on the August 2 1938 and his solemn profession on December 31 1943. He was ordained priest on April 5 1946. He obtained his doctorate in Dogmatic Theology and followed specialised studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, he was appointed professor at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome, where he taught until the 1991. He was a consultant to the Preparatory Theological Commission for the Vatican II Council, in which he was also an expert. He contributed to the writing of the Dogmatic Constitutions "Dei Verbum" and "Lumen Gentium", and held several posts in the Roman "Curia". He was Rector Magnificus of the Latern Pontifical University from 1991 to 1995.

On November 24 2007, Betti was appointed Cardinal-Deacon of "Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia". He currently resides at the Provincial Infirmary of St. Francis on the hill of Fiesole.

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