{{Short description|Italian prelate}} {{Refimprove|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |image = Cardinal Dolci.JPG |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Angelo Maria Dolci |title = [[Saint Mary Major|Archpriest for the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |appointed = 22 May 1933 |term_end = 13 September 1939 |predecessor = [[Bonaventura Cerretti]] |successor = [[Alessandro Verde]] |other_post = [[Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina]] (1936–39) |ordination = 5 June 1890 |consecration = 13 May 1900 |consecrated_by = [[Francesco Satolli|Francesco di Paolo Satolli]] |cardinal = 13 March 1933 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius XI]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] (1933–36)<br>[[Cardinal-Bishop]] (1936–39) |birth_name = Angelo Maria Dolci |birth_date = 12 July 1867 |birth_place = Civitella di Agliano, [[Bagnoregio]], [[Papal States]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1939|09|13|1867|07|12}} |death_place = Civitella di Agliano, Bagnoregio, [[Kingdom of Italy]] |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Bishop of Gubbio]] (1900–06)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador|Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador]] (1906–10)|[[Apostolic nuncio to peru|Apostolic Delegate to Peru]] (1906–10)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia|Apostolic Delegate to Bolivia]] (1906–10)|[[Nazianzus|Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus]] (1906–11)|[[Archbishop of Amalfi]] (1911–14)|[[Vicar Apostolic of Constantinople]] (1914–22)|[[Apostolic Nunciature to Turkey|Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople]] (1914–22)|[[Archdiocese of Hierapolis in Syria|Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Syria]] (1914–33)|[[Apostolic Nunciature to Iran|Apostolic Delegate to Persia]] (1918–21)|[[Apostolic Nunciature to Romania|Apostolic Nuncio to Romania]] (1923–33)|[[Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria]] (1933–36)}} |alma_mater = [[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare]]<br>[[Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles]] |coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Angelo Maria Dolci.svg }}
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'''Angelo Maria Dolci''' (12 July 1867 – 13 September 1939) was an Italian prelate of the [[Catholic Church]] who was made a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] in 1933. He was Bishop of Gubbio from 1900 to 1906, Archbishop of Amalfi from 1911 to 1914, and Apostolic Vicar of Constantinople from 1914 to 1922. He also served in the diplomatic corps of the [[Holy See]] as an [[Apostolic Delegate]] or [[Apostolic Nuncio]] from 1906 to 1910 and from 1914 to 1933.
==Biography== Dolci was born in [[Civitella d'Agliano]] on 12 July 1867 and was ordained a priest on 5 June 1890.<ref name="lentz">{{cite book | access-date = 28 April 2020 | title= Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary | first = Harris M. | last = Lentz III |page= 62 | date = 2015| publisher = McFarland | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ongwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA62& }}</ref> In preparation for a career in the diplomatic service he entered the [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]] in 1892.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]]|language =it|access-date = 28 April 2020 | title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1850–1899|url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1850-1899.htm }}</ref>
[[Pope Leo XIII]] appointed him [[bishop of Gubbio]] on 19 April 1900. He was named [[apostolic delegate]] in [[Ecuador]], [[Bolivia]], and [[Peru]] on 7 December 1906. He was promoted to titular archbishop of [[Nazianzus|Nazianzo]] on 9 December 1906. He was recalled to [[Rome]] in 1910.
He was appointed [[Archbishop of Amalfi]] on 27 January 1911.<ref>{{cite book | pages= 100, 601 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-03-1911-ocr.pdf | date= 1911 | volume = III | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}}</ref> He was appointed Apostolic Delegate and [[vicar apostolic]] of [[Constantinople]] on 10 June 1914. His assignment to the titular archdiocese of [[Hierapolis|Gerapoli]] followed on 16 November 1914.<ref>{{cite book | pages= 406, 701 | url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-06-1914-ocr.pdf | date= 1914 | volume = VI | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis}}</ref>
On 14 December 1922 he was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to [[Belgium]], however, he could not take possession of the nunciature and was named [[Apostolic Nunciature to Romania|Nuncio to Romania]] on 30 May 1923.<ref>{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-15-1923-ocr.pdf | page= 382 | date= 1923 | volume = XV |access-date = 15 January 2020 }}</ref>
He was created [[Cardinal-Priest]] of [[Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome]] by [[Pope Pius XI]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 13 March 1933. He was appointed [[Archpriest]] of the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore|Basilica of Saint Mary Major]] on 22 May 1933. He was elected to the order of cardinal bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of [[Palestrina, Lazio|Palestrina]] 15 June 1936. He participated in the [[Papal conclave, 1939|conclave of 1939]] that elected [[Pope Pius XII]]. He died in September of that year.
===Armenian genocide=== In 1915, as Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople (1914–1922), Archbishop Dolci wrote to [[Mehmed V]] and [[Talaat Pasha]] to ask for mercy on behalf of the Armenians, who were then being deported and massacred. Dolci reported back to the Vatican to [[Pope Benedict XV]] and his secretary of foreign affairs [[Eugenio Pacelli]], the future Pope [[Pius XII]]. He admitted he had been deceived by the Turks, because despite giving contrary assurances to the Holy See delegate, they continued to massacre the Armenians. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/how-pope-benedict-xv-and-holy-see-tried-to-stop-armenian-genocide/ |title=How Pope Benedict XV and Holy See Tried to Stop Armenian Genocide |access-date=2016-07-04 |archive-date=2018-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918054703/http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/how-pope-benedict-xv-and-holy-see-tried-to-stop-armenian-genocide |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He died at his home in Civitella d'Agliano on 13 September 1939.<ref name="lentz"/>
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==Further reading== *{{cite book|last= Bräuer|first=Martin |title=Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=363pBQAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=De Gruyter|location=Berlin|language=German|isbn=978-3-11-026947-5|pages=1908–1909 |ref=none}}
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