His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Felici (born July 26, 1919 in Segni, Italy) is the former president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1988 to 1995. July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Segni, in the Latin language called Signinsis, is an Italian city located in the Province of Rome. ... The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church aiming to bring back traditionalist catholics into communion with Rome, primarily the Society of Saint Pius X. It is headed by DarÃo Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ... The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the Christian Church whose visible and spiritual head is the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It teaches that it is the one holy catholic and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ, and that the sole Church of Christ which... Governing the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope makes use of the Roman Curia, the administrative apparatus of the Holy See. ...
Born on July 26, 1919 in Segni outside of Rome, he enroled in the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy at the age of 23 as a sub-deacon and received a special age waiver from Pope Pius XII to be ordained the same year on April 4, 1942.
In February, 1964 he was appointed Under-Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs which was restructured three years later by Pope Paul VI to become the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church and on June 28, 1988 would be renamed by Pope John Paul II as Secretariat of State.
Since then CardinalFelici's curial expertise and long service experience has been helpful through his memberships in the second section of the Secretariat of State, the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, the Congregation for Bishops, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for the Clergy and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
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