Dino Monduzzi Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Dino Monduzzi
Cardinal-Deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:21 February 1998
Term Start:18 April 1998
Term End:13 October 2006
Predecessor:Yves-Marie-Joseph Congar
Successor:John Patrick Foley
Ordination:22 July 1945
Ordained By:Giuseppe Battaglia
Consecration:6 January 1987
Consecrated By:Pope John Paul II
Cardinal:21 February 1998
Created Cardinal By:Pope John Paul II
Rank:Cardinal-Deacon
Birth Name:Dino Monduzzi
Birth Date:2 April 1922
Birth Place:Brisighella, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:Vatican City
Parents:Secondo Damiano Monduzzi
Ida Ragazzini
Alma Mater:Pontifical Lateran University
Motto:Patientiam praeficere caritati
Coat Of Arms:Coat of arms of Dino Monduzzi.svg
Cardinal Name:Dino Monduzzi
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
See:Capreae (titular)

Dino Monduzzi, ComCGCIHComIH (2 April 1922 – 13 October 2006) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household from 1986 to 1998.[1]

Biography

He was born in 1922 to Damiano and Ida (née Ragazzini) Monduzzi in Brisighella, Italy. Monduzzi was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Giuseppe Battaglia of Faenza on 22 July 1945. He celebrated his first Mass the next day, and after this studies at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome earning a licentiate in utroque iure.

After involvement in Catholic Action missions,[2] Father Monduzzi began work for the Holy See in the late 1950s as an adjunct (and later secretary) in the Prefecture of the Papal Household, which among other duties arranges papal audiences. In 1961 he was elevated to the rank of monsignor. Monduzzi was named prefect of the Papal Household and titular bishop of Capreae on 18 December 1986, and received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1987, from Pope John Paul II (with Archbishops Eduardo Martínez Somalo and José Tomás Sánchez as co-consecrators). As Prefect, Monduzzi was responsible for the non-liturgical aspects of papal ceremonies, and the public and private audiences of the pope. He accompanied John Paul II on 130 pastoral pilgrimages and 268 pastoral visits to Roman parishes.

On 7 February 1998, he retired as Prefect of the Papal Household, and was created cardinal-deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 1998. Cardinal Monduzzi finally succumbed to an ongoing illness and died at 1:00 am on 13 October 2006 at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his funeral Mass on the following 16 October and his remains were then buried in his family tomb in Brisighella.

Honours

Notes and References

  1. https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1998.htm Florida International University, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, Biographical Dictionary of John Paul II (1978-2005), Consistory of February 21, 1998 (VII
  2. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_monduzzi_d.html Vatican Press website, Monduzzi Card. Dino
  3. Web site: Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. 29 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. quirinale.it. 2019-08-09.
  5. Web site: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. quirinale.it. 2019-08-09.
  6. https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1997/04/15/pdfs/A11841-11841.pdf