Type: | bishop |
Ubaldo Calabresi | |
Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina | |
See: | Fundi |
Appointed: | 23 January 1981 |
Term End: | 4 March 2000 |
Predecessor: | Pio Laghi |
Successor: | Santos Abril y Castelló |
Other Post: | Titular Archbishop of Fundi |
Ordination: | 27 March 1948 |
Consecration: | 28 September 1969 |
Consecrated By: | Jean-Marie Villot |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1925 |
Birth Place: | Sezze Romano, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Ubaldo Calabresi (2 January 1925 - 14 June 2004) was an Italian Catholic bishop.
Calabresi was born on 2 January 1925 in Sezze Romano, Italy, the fourth of six brothers. He earned degrees in civil and canon law at the Lateran University.[1] He was ordained a priest there on 27 March 1948.
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1951.[2]
On 3 July 1969 he was named Titular Bishop of Fundi and Apostolic Delegate to the Red Sea Region.[3] He was consecrated on 28 September 1969 by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot.
He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela on 5 January 1978.[4]
He was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina in 1981.
On 27 June 1992 he was a co-consecrator when Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later Pope Francis, was made a bishop.[5]
He was a participant in the successful Vatican mediation between Argentina and Chile over the Beagle conflict.[1]
He retired on 4 March 2000. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in Rome on 14 June 2004.[6]