Giuseppe Cardinal Siri (20 May 1906 - 2 May 1989) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholicism. ...

Born in the parish of S. Maria Immacolata in Genoa, Italy, his parents were Nicolò and Giulia (née Bellavista) Siri. Siri entered the Minor Seminary of Genoa on 16 October 1917, Genoa's Major Seminary in 1917, and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome) in 1926. He was ordained into the priesthood by Carlo Cardinal Minoretti on 22 September 1928. Siri furthered his studies and pastoral work at Rome from 1928 to Autumn 1929. Alternate uses, see Genoa (disambiguation). ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The Pontifical Gregorian University The Pontifical Gregorian University is a Roman Catholic university in Rome. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Elected titular bishop of Liviade and appointed auxiliary of Genoa on 14 March 1944, he was consecrated in May of the same year by Pietro Cardinal Boetto, S.J. at the cathedral of S. Lorenzo; in 1946, he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Genoa. He was raised, in 1953, to the cardinalate by Pope Pius XII and thereby became the youngest Cardinal of the Roman Church. As Archbishop of Genoa, he was one of the more conservative Catholic prelates of the Second Vatican Council and, alongside Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, was part of the conservative association of Council fathers named Coetus Internationalis Patrum. March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu (S.I. or S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genova is a metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. ... 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. ... The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, (Vatican two) was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ... His Excellency Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the priestly Society of Saint Pius X. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (November 29, 1905–March 25, 1991) was a leading Catholic who opposed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially condemning ecumenism, collegiality, the revision of the then existing Roman Missal... His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (29 October 1890 - 3 August 1979) was Secretary of the Holy Office of the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1966 when that dicastery was reorganized as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in which he served as Pro-Prefect, until 1968. ...

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It has been claimed that Siri received the majority vote in the Papal Conclave twice; in 1958 and 1963 (even announcing in the Papal Conclave that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII) but that on both occasions when faced with threats that Catholics in the Eastern Bloc would face persecution on account of his fiercely anti-Soviet Union opinions in the event of his assuming the papacy, he declined the Papal Tiara, a not unknown occurrence. Given that the conduct of papal conclaves is strictly confidential and that any cardinal revealing the details would face instant excommunication, no documentary evidence has ever substantiated or disproved the widely claimed rumour. Cardinal Siri himself denied these rumours repeatedly. However irregularities probably did happen at the 1958 Conclave, as Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, secretary of the Conclave, later admitted. Other rumours had it, that Grégoire-Pierre Cardinal Agagianian, a Cardinal and Patriarch of the Armenian rite Church in communion with Rome, was elected to the Papacy at the 1958 Conclave. Image File history File links official portrait of Cardinal Siri This work is copyrighted. ... The Sistine Chapel is the location of the conclave. ... The Sistine Chapel is the location of the conclave. ... A map of the Eastern Bloc. ... 16th century Papal Tiara, the oldest surviving tiara in the papal collection. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The word cardinal comes from the Latin cardo for hinge and usually refers to things of fundamental importance, as in cardinal rule or cardinal sins. ... Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. ... After the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with the rest of Oriental Orthodoxy formally broke off communion from the Chalcedonian churches, numerous Armenian bishops made attempts to restore communion with the Catholic Church. ...

Siri was a leading candidate for the papacy (Papabile) in both the August and October 1978 conclaves that followed the deaths of Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul I respectively. Media reports suggested that Siri in fact topped the first count of votes in the August conclave but ultimately was beaten by Albino Cardinal Luciani, who became Pope John Paul I. Following John Paul I's death, Siri was the leading conservative candidate in opposition to Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, the leading liberal candidate. Vaticanologists suggested that the eventual winner, Karol Cardinal Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II, was chosen as a compromise candidate between the two. Papabile (plural: Papabili) is an unofficial Italian term first coined by Vaticanologists and now used internationally in many languages to describe cardinals of whom it is thought likely or possible that they will be elected pope. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), 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. ... Pope John Paul I (in Latin ), born Albino Luciani (October 17, 1912 – September 28, 1978), reigned as pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 to September 28, 1978. ... Pope John Paul I (in Latin ), born Albino Luciani (October 17, 1912 – September 28, 1978), reigned as pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 to September 28, 1978. ... Giovanni Cardinal Benelli (b. ... Vaticanologist is a term coined in the mid-to-late twentieth century to describe journalists, academics and commentators whose area of expertise is in studying and understanding the manner by which the Holy See and the Roman Catholic Church operates. ... Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef WojtyÅ‚a [1], sometimes referred to as John Paul The Great, (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from October 16, 1978 until his death, making his the second-longest...

Though claimed as Pope by one sedevacantist group that believes the widespread rumours that he had actually been elected to the papacy in 1958 and 1963, only to be displaced by Angelo Cardinal Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) and Giovanni Cardinal Montini (Pope Paul VI) respectively, Siri remained in full communion with the Catholic Church and refused to support any sedevacantist Catholic organization. One small sedevacantist group, centered in Houston, Texas still claims him to have been the actual pope, despite Cardinal Siri's own silence as to this claim. This small group, supporters of "The Siri Thesis" [1] have yet to offer any reasonable explanation for the fact that Siri failed to support the "Traditional Roman Catholic movement", the fact that, until his death, Cardinal Siri recognized John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II as legitimate popes and made public acts of obedience to all of them at the Vatican, the fact that Cardinal Siri, even though conservative and faithful to traditional forms, said the Mass according to the reformed 1970 Roman Missal, ordained in the new rite, consecrated in the new rite, signed all of the documents of Vatican II, held high official positions in the Church and even somewhat defended Vatican II, as long as this Council was seen in the light of Tradition, though he did admit, that "if the Church were not divine, this Council would have buried Her." Sede vacante coat of arms, used when there is no reigning pope. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... This article deals with the 20th-century pope. ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), 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. ... Sede vacante coat of arms, used when there is no reigning pope. ... This article is about the post-Vatican-II changes to the Mass; for an explanation of the current structure of the Mass, see Mass (liturgy). ... The word tradition, comes from the Latin word traditio which means to hand down or to hand over. ...

He died on 2 May 1989 in the Villa Campostano, Albaro, and is buried at S. Lorenzo metropolitan cathedral in Genoa. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Trivia

In the movie Godfather III, during the election of the Pope John Paul I, 11 votes are cast for a "Siri."