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Biography

Born in Frascati, Clemente Micara attended the Pontifical Roman Seminary, the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Lateran University, and the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 20, 1902, and finished his studies in 1904. After entering the Roman Curia, in the Secretariat of State, in 1904, Micara was named secretary of the nunciature to Argentina in 1909. He was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on January 5, 1910, and later Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on August 21, 1918. Micara was made auditor of the Belgian nunciature on April 16, 1915, and of the Austrain nunciature in 1916. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Pontifical Gregorian University The Pontifical Gregorian University is a Roman Catholic university in Rome. ... The Pontifical Lateran University (in Italian: Pontificia Università Lateranense) is a Pontifical University in Rome. ... The Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy is one of the Pontifical Academies inside the Vatican City State. ... Catholic deacon candidates prostrate before the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles during a 2004 diaconate ordination liturgy Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, and Independent Catholic churches includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon. ... Priesthood in the Catholic Church is the second of the three orders of ordained ministry, Bishop, Priest and Deacon. ... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Roman Curia — usually called the Vatican — is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Catholic Church and the achievement of its goals. ... The Secretariat of State is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the government of the Roman Catholic Church. ... A secretary is an administrative support position. ... An Apostolic Nunciature is a top level diplomatic mission of the Holy See, equivalent to an embassy or to a High Commission between members of the Commonwealth. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Monsignor is an ecclesiastical honorific title for clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Monsignor is an ecclesiastical honorific title for clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. ... August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... An audit is an evaluation of an organization, system, process, project or product. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Motto none Anthem (German) Land of Mountains, Land on the River Austria() – on the European continent() – in the European Union() [] Capital (and largest city) Vienna Official languages German Recognised regional languages Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian1 Government Parliamentary republic  -  President Heinz Fischer  -  Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer Independence  -  Austrian State Treaty in force July... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

On May 7, 1920, he was appointed the first Nuncio to Czechoslovakia and Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 8 from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, with Bishops Antonio Valbonesi and Karl Kašpar serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Bohemian College in Rome. After being named Nuncio to Belgium and Internuncio to Luxembourg on May 30, 1923, Micara bestowed the Golden Rose to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium as a papal representative on December 10, 1925. He resided in Rome during the Nazi occupation of Belgium from 1940 to 1944, at which time the nuncio resumed his post. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Nuncio is an ecclesiastical diplomatic title, derived from the ancient Latin Nuntius, meaning any envoy. ... Bishop Richard Pates, current auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Titular Bishop of Suacia. ... A bishop in the Catholic Church is a member of the College of Bishops, is an ordained minister, and holds the fullness of the priesthood. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... Pietro Gasparri Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (Capovallazza di Ussita, Macerata province, May 5, 1852-November 18, 1934) was Roman Catholic archbishop, diplomat and politician in the Roman Curia. ... Principal Consecrator is a term used in the Roman Catholic Church to designate a bishop who ordains a priest to the episocal state. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Golden Rose of Minucchio da Siena (1330), given by Pope John XXII to Rudolph III of Nidau, Earl of Neuchâtel The Golden Rose is a precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes of the Roman Catholic Church have been accustomed for centuries... The young Queen For the daughter of Philippe and Mathilde, see Princess Elisabeth of Belgium For the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, born Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, see Elisabeth of Bavaria For other people called Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, see Elisabeth von Wittelsbach (disambiguation) Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians (Elisabeth Gabriele Val... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Belligerent military occupation occurs when one nations military occupies all or part of the territory of another nation or recognized belligerent. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Pope Pius XII created Micara Cardinal Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva in the consistory of February 18, 1946, and then Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni on June 13 of that same year, while retaining his previous cardinalatial title. On November 11, 1950, he was made Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, and Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in the Roman Curia. Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from March 2, 1939 until his death. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually a bishop, of the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the College of Cardinals which as a body elects a new pope. ... Facade of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. ... // Antiquity Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply sitting together, just as the Greek syn(h)edrion (from which the Biblical sanhedrin was a corruption). ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... A prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: make in front, i. ... The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for everything which concerns institutes of consecrated life (orders and religious congregations, both of men and of women, secular institutes) and... A congregation is a type of dicastery of the Roman Curia, the central administrative organism of the Catholic Church. ...

Micara was appointed Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals on January 13, 1951, and Vicar General of Rome on the following January 26. In his capacity of Vicar General, Micara served as the unofficial Bishop of Rome, for the title officially belongs to the Pope, who delegates the day-to-day administration of the diocese to his Vicar. In 1953, he resigned as Prefect of Religious (January 17) and Pro-Prefect of Rites (January 26). For the 1953 Italian general election, he urged the Catholics of Rome to "[v]ote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans"^[1]. The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope St. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Cardinal Vicar is the title of the the vicar general of the Pope, as Bishop of Rome, for the spiritual administration of the city, and its surrounding district, known in Latin as Vicarius Urbis. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Pope. ... The Pope, (or Pope of Rome) (from Latin: papa, Papa, father; from Greek: papas / = priest originating from πατήρ = father )[1], is the Bishop of Rome, the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the absolute monarch of Vatican City. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Italian general elections of 1953 were held on 1953-06-07. ...

After serving as a cardinal elector in the 1958 papal conclave that selected Pope John XXIII, Micara participated in the conclave of 1963, which resulted in the election of Pope Paul VI. He became known as the "Grand Elector" among the Curia because of his influential role in obtaining the conservative cardinals' votes for Pope Paul, with whom he was friends, in the latter conclave^[2]. Seen as a progressive^[3], the Cardinal lived long enough to only attend the first three sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1964. The Papal conclave of 1958 occurred following the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958 in Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence in Italy, after a 19-year papacy. ... 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. ... The following were the cardinal electors in the 1963 papal conclave. ... The Papal conclave of 1963 was convoked following the death of Pope John XXIII on June 3 of that same year in the Apostolic Palace. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ... The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

He died after a long illness^[4] in Rome, at age 85, and is buried in the basilica of S. Maria sopra Minerva. St. ...

Trivia

• Micara was also President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology from 1951 until his death.

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References

1. ^ TIME Magazine. On the Eve June 8, 1953
2. ^ TIME Magazine. Milestones May 19, 1965
3. ^ Ibid.
4. ^ Ibid.

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External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy