Styles of Achille Cardinal Silvestrini
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Achille Cardinal Silvestrini (born October 25, 1923, Brisighella, Italy) was one of the most prominent Vatican diplomats during the long reign of John Paul II. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches between 1991 and 2000. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (550x741, 86 KB) Description: Vestments of a cardinal: red cassock, rochet trimmed with lace, red chimere, apostolical cross. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Brisighella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 45 km southeast of Bologna and about 40 km southwest of Ravenna. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born   [] (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as Pope of the Roman... The Congregation for the Oriental Churches (Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for contact with the Oriental Catholic Churches for the sake of assisting their development, protecting their rights and also maintaining whole and entire in the one Catholic Church, alongside the liturgical, disciplinary... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Educated in Rome, Silvestrini became a priest in 1946 and after several years continuing his education in Rome via studies of theology, law and Church history , began a very long career in the Vatican Secretariat of State. By the time of the death of Pius XII he was a well-established servant there, and after the election of Pope John XXIII in 1958 Silvestrini became administrative secretary to Domenico Tardini and Amleto Cicognani. Under Pope Paul VI, he continued as administrative secretary to Jean Villot, and his experience was welcomed by John Paul after he became Pope in 1978. Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Equality and the balancing of interests under law is symbolised by a blindfold and weighing scales For other senses of this word, see Law (disambiguation). ... History studies the past in human terms. ... The Venerable Pius XII, born Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Eugenio Pacelli (Rome, March 2, 1876 - October 9, 1958) served as the Pope from March 2, 1939 to 1958. ... Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni XXIII), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. ... Domenico Cardinal Tardini (February 29, 1888 - July 30, 1961) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a prominent member of the Roman Curia in Vatican City. ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), (Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot (11 October 1905 – 9 March 1979) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Lyon, and a prominent member of the Roman Curia in Vatican City. ...

Silvestrini became titular Archbishop of Novaliciana on May 27, 1979 and was consecrated by two other figures who were to play important administrative roles in John Paul's long papacy - Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy. He then turned his focus for the next five years to the renewal of the Lateran Treaty on its fiftieth anniversary, and his diplomatic skills allowed him to sign a revised treaty that reflected the rapid secularisation of Italy since the 1960s. He was also involved in a number of other concordats between the Vatican and nation-states, most notably in the Falklands War of the early 1980s and the war in Nicaragua slightly later. (In the context of property law, title refers to ownership or documents of ownership; see title (property). ... His Eminence Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo (born March 31, 1927) is a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. ... His Eminence Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (born Feb 5, 1924) is an Indian clergyman, the Cardinal Priest of S. Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri and Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Roman Catholic Church. ... The Lateran Treaties of February 11, 1929 provided for the mutual recognition of the then Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican City. ... This article concerns secularism, the exclusion of religion and supernatural beliefs. ... Combatants United Kingdom Argentina Commanders Sir John Fieldhouse Sir John Woodward Margaret Thatcher Leopoldo Galtieri Mario Menéndez Casualties 258 killed [1] 777 wounded 59 taken prisoner 649 killed 1,068 wounded 11,313 taken prisoner The Falklands War (Spanish: ) was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom...

In 1988 Silvestrini was rewarded for his service with a cardinal's hat, and three years later he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. When the earliest speculation as to who would succeed John Paul II began in the middle 1990s, Silvestrini was a popular choice among liberal observers because he was seen as a man in the more moderate style of Paul VI rather than John Paul's hardline style. It was always noted by Vatican-watchers that his age would make him a very slim chance, though. Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), (Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ...

In 1999 Silvestrini was the papal representative to the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan. He retired from his post as Prefect a year later. When he turned eighty and thus became destined never to vote in a conclave in October 2003, Silvestrini became known as, along with his longtime counterpart Cardinal Cheli as the strongest critic of that rule among over-eighties during the 2005 conclave. Silvestrini actually took no part in this conclave even during the pre-conclave discussions. Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: حسين بن طلال) (November 14, 1935 - February 7, 1999) was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 1952 to 1999. ... The Sistine Chapel is the location of the conclave. ... Giovanni Cardinal Cheli (born October 4, 1918, Turin, Italy) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was, along with Achille Silvestrini and Pio Laghi, one of the most prominent Vatican diplomats under Pope John Paul II. Cheli was educated at the seminary of Asti and soon developed his... This is a list of Roman Catholic Cardinals over the age of 80 as of the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005. ... The Papal conclave of 2005 was convoked due to the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005. ...

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