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Angelo Cardinal Sodano (born November 23, 1927) is the Cardinal Secretary of State of Vatican City. He became Pro-Secretary 1 December 1990, and full Secretary of State once he had been named a cardinal in the consistory of June 28, 1991.A native of the diocese of Asti, Italy, he was ordained a priest there in 1950. In 1959 he moved to RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman and entered the direct service of the Holy SeeThe term Holy See ( Latin: Sancta Sedes lit. holy seat") refers in a geographic sense to the episcopal see of Rome, of which the Pope is the ordinary i. the diocesan bishop); in canon law, the terms Holy See and Apostolic See refer to the Pope ("Roman Pon, serving as a secretary of nunciatures in Latin AmericaLatin America consists of the countries of South America and North America (including Central America and the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken there. Most freque and achieving the title of monsignorMonsignor is the name of an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests by the Roman Catholic Church. The title gives no extra sacramental powers. It is common that Vicars General,if not already of this rank or higher, are made monsignors as pa (he was named a Chaplain of His Holiness the day Pope Paul VIPaul VI Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini ( September 26, 1897 August 6, 1978), served as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978. He presided over the Catholic Church during most of the Second Vatican Council and played a central was elected) before becoming an official of the Roman CuriaThe Roman Curia is the complex of the organs and the authorities that constitute the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Roman Catholic Church and the achieveme's Council for Public Affairs of the Church in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the.
On November 30November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining. Events 1782 American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign prelimina, 1977 he was appointed a titular archbishop and the nuncio to Chile, one of the countries where he had served as nunciature secretary. He returned to Asti to be consecrated a bishop before taking up his post. He returned to Rome in 1988 as Secretary of the Council For Public Affairs of the Church , which in 1989 became the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State . (The occupant of this post is sometimes informally called the "Vatican foreign minister").
In 1994 the Pope named him Cardinal-Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Albano, and on November 30, 2002, exactly twenty-five years after he was first appointed a bishop, he was elected vice-dean of the College of Cardinals in succession to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Dean.
When he turned 75 in 2002 the Pope specifically invited him to stay on as Secretary of State, though this is the customary retirement age for heads of major Vatican departments (there is no retirement age for the Deanship or Vice-Deanship). He is close to the present Pope, though some have called him a less distinguished Secretary of State than his predecessors.
He is not seen as one of the Papabile, or the cardinals likely to become the next Pope, and being past the customary retirement age it is probable that a new Pope would not wait long before naming a new Secretary of State. However, there is a small chance that he will become the new Pope.
