{{Short description|Italian cardinal}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Angelo Felici |image = Angelo_Felici_(1973).jpg |caption = Felici in 1973. |title = [[Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei|President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |appointed = 16 December 1995 |term_end = 13 April 2000 |predecessor = [[Antonio Innocenti]] |successor = [[Darío Castrillón Hoyos]] |other_post = [[Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari|Cardinal-Priest of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari]] "[[pro hac vice]]" (1999–2007) |ordination = 4 April 1942 |consecration = 24 September 1967 |consecrated_by = [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani]] |cardinal = 28 June 1988 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] (1988–99)<br>[[Cardinal-Priest]] (1999–2007) |birth_name = Angelo Felici |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|07|26}} |birth_place = [[Segni]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|06|17|1919|07|26}} |death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Section for Relations with States (Roman Curia)|Undersecretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs]] (1964–67)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to the Netherlands|Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the Netherlands]] (1967–76)|[[Caesariana (Numidia)|Titular Archbishop of Caesariana]] (1967–88)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal]] (1976–79)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to France]] (1979–88)|Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari (1988–99)|[[Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints]] (1988–95)}} |alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]]|[[Pontifical Lateran University]]|[[Pontifical Gregorian University]]}} |motto = ''In lumine Tuo'' |coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Angelo Felici.svg }}
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'''Angelo Felici''' [[Doctor of Canon Law|J.C.D.]] (26 July 1919, [[Segni]] – 17 June 2007, [[Rome]]) was an Italian [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and [[Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei|President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei]]. Before this role he served as the Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints]] from 1988 to 1995.
==Early life== He was ordained on 4 April 1942 and spent the next three years studying for his [[doctorate]] in [[canon law]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cardinal Angelo Felici (1919-2007) - Find A Grave...|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26973405/angelo-felici|access-date=2020-10-08|website=www.findagrave.com|language=en}}</ref> In 1945 he joined the Vatican [[Secretariat of State]] where he worked until 1949. He was a faculty member at the [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]], until he was appointed under-[[secretary]] of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1964.
==Episcopate== Pope Paul sent him on a mission to [[Jerusalem]] after the [[Six-Day War]] between Arabs and Israelis.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Autographs|first=Weekes|date=2020|title=Felici, Angelo Cardinal (1919-2007)|url=https://weekesautographs.com/product/felici-angelo-cardinal-1919-2007/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811061343/https://weekesautographs.com/product/felici-angelo-cardinal-1919-2007/|archive-date=2022-08-11|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Weekes Autographs|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Pope Paul VI]] appointed him as [[titular archbishop]] of [[Caesariana (Numidia)|Caesariana]] and appointed [[Promagistrate|pro]]-[[nuncio]] to the [[Netherlands]] on 22 July 1967. He was consecrated as a [[bishop]] in September of the same year. His nine years in the Netherlands were known for their sharp conflicts with the more radical progessivist elements Dutch Catholic Church, among other things on the issue of clerical celibacy and the nominations of two bishop's nominations who supported the Vatican line contrary to Dutch progressivists ([[Adrianus Johannes Simonis]] and [[Joannes Gijsen]]). He was transferred to [[Portugal]] in 1976 and finally to [[France]] in 1979.
==Cardinalate== He was made [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal-Deacon]] of [[San Carlo ai Catinari|Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 28 June 1988 by [[Pope John Paul II]]. In 1988, he was appointed Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints]], where he served until 1995. Then he was appointed President of the [[Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei|Pontifical Commission ''Ecclesia Dei'']]. As Cardinal Deacons are permitted to do after ten years, he opted for the order of cardinal priests and his [[titular church]] was elevated [[pro hac vice]] to the rank of title on 9 January 1999. He lost the right to participate in a [[Papal conclave|conclave]] when he turned 80 years of age in 1999.
==Death== On 17 June 2007, Cardinal Felici died; Pope [[Benedict XVI]] sent his condolences and, on 19 June 2007, presided at Cardinal Felici's funeral Mass at the Altar of the [[Cathedra]] in [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]].
==External links== *[http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/cardJP2-4.htm#53 GCatholic.org profile]
== References == <references /> {{start box}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before=[[Fulton J. Sheen]]}} {{s-tul|title=[[Caesariana (Numidia)|Bishop of Caesariana]]|years=1967–1988}} {{s-aft|after=[[Giovanni Lajolo]]}} {{succession box | before=[[Pietro Palazzini]] | title=[[Congregation for the Causes of Saints|Prefect of the Congregation<br>for the Causes of Saints]]| after=[[Alberto Bovone]] | years=1 July 1988 – 13 June 1995}} {{succession box | before=[[Antonio Innocenti]] | title=[[Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei|President of the Pontifical<br>Commission Ecclesia Dei]]| after=[[Darío Castrillón Hoyos]] | years=16 December 1995 – 13 April 2000}} {{s-ach|rec}} {{succession box | title = [[List of living cardinals|Oldest living Member of the Sacred College]] | years = 2 August 2006 – 11 June 2007 | before = Cardinal [[Johannes Willebrands]] | after = Cardinal [[Édouard Gagnon]] }} {{end box}}
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