{{Short description|Italian cardinal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Carlo Furno |image = Carlo_Furno.jpg |title = [[Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic)|Grand Master Emeritus of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |appointed = 21 December 1995 |term_end = 27 June 2007 |predecessor = [[Giuseppe Caprio]] |successor = [[John Patrick Foley]] |other_post = [[Sant'Onofrio, Rome|Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Onofrio]] (2006–15) |ordination = 25 June 1944 |ordained_by = Paolo Rostagno |consecration = 16 September 1973 |consecrated_by = [[Paolo Bertoli]] |cardinal = 26 November 1994 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] (1994–2005)<br>[[Cardinal-Priest]] (2006–15) |birth_name = Carlo Furno |birth_date = 2 December 1921 |birth_place = [[Bairo]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|12|09|1921|12|02}} |death_place = [[Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]] |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Peru]] (1973–78)|Titular Archbishop of Abari (1973–94)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon]] (1978–82)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil]] (1982–92)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Italy]] (1992–94)|[[Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re|Cardinal-Deacon of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re]] (1994–2005)|[[Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi|Pontifical Legate for the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi]] (1996–98)|[[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore|Archpriest for the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]] (1997–2004)|Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re "[[pro hac vice]]" (2005–06)}} |alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Pontifical Roman Major Seminary]]|[[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]]}} |motto = ''Ardere et lucere'' |coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Carlo Furno.svg }}
{{infobox cardinal styles | cardinal name = Carlo Furno | dipstyle = His Eminence | offstyle = Your Eminence | relstyle = | deathstyle = | image = Coat of arms of Carlo Furno OESSJ.svg | image_size = 200px }}
'''Carlo Furno''' (2 December 1921 – 9 December 2015) was an Italian [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal of the Catholic Church]].
==Early life and career== Furno was born in [[Bairo]], [[Piedmont]], in 1921. He was educated at the diocesan College at Ivrea and later at the Seminary of Ivrea, where he studied philosophy and theology. He was sent to the Theological Faculty, Crocetto Salesian Athenaeum in [[Turin]], (1948–1949) and later the [[Pontifical Roman Seminary]], Rome where he took a [[JUD|doctorate in utroque iure]], both canon and civil law, (1953). Furno was summoned to the elite [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]], Rome from 1951 to 1953 where he took practical courses in diplomacy. After his priestly ordination on 25 June 1944<ref name=VU>[http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/Persona.asp?IDPERS=5133 Vicariatus Urbis] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304160930/http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/Persona.asp?IDPERS=5133 |date=4 March 2012 }}</ref> and six years of pastoral work in his home diocese, he began a career in the diplomatic service of the [[Holy See]].
He worked in a subordinate role in Colombia, Ecuador and [[Jerusalem]], and then in the [[Secretariat of State]]. Following these assignments and episcopal consecration on 16 September 1973,<ref name=VU/> he served as [[Apostolic Nuncio]] (Papal Ambassador) successively to Peru, Lebanon, Brazil and Italy.<ref>[http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/1999Apr/73apr14,vol.10,no.73txt/apr14col.htm College of Cardinals Collection]</ref><ref>[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_furno_c_en.html Holy See Press Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121125843/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_furno_c_en.html |date=21 November 2010 }}</ref>
==Cardinal== He was created [[Cardinal-Deacon]] of [[Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re]] on 26 November 1994. After ten years he opted to become [[Cardinal Priest]] of that church. From 2005 until his death in late 2015 he was Cardinal-Priest of [[Sant'Onofrio (Rome)|Sant'Onofrio]], in recognition that the church is the Order's headquarters after the 15 August 1948, [[motu proprio]] of [[Pius XII]] establishing that the Order's headquarters should be transferred from Jerusalem to Rome. [[Pope John Paul II]] appointed him Grand Master of the [[Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic)|Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem]] on 16 December 1995. The aforementioned Order, like the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Knights of Malta]], is a member of many international bodies and has observer status at others (such as the United Nations).
Cardinal Furno resigned this office in June 2007 and was succeeded by American [[Archbishop]] [[John Patrick Foley]], who had been serving as the President of the [[Pontifical Council for Social Communications]], an important department of the [[Roman Curia]].<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfurno.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>
Cardinal Furno died on 9 December 2015 at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite news | accessdate = 10 December 2015 | date = 10 December 2015 | work= La Stampa | language = it| url = http://www.lastampa.it/2015/12/10/cronaca/morto-il-cardinale-carlo-furno-gi-nunzio-apostolico-in-italia-YfS3ILh55bs5gKw1IWHxQL/pagina.html | title = Morto il cardinale Carlo Furno, già Nunzio apostolico in Italia}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | before=[[Carmine Rocco]] | title=[[Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil]]| after=[[Alfio Rapisarda]] | years=21 August 1982 – 15 April 1992}}
{{succession box | before=[[Luigi Poggi]] | title=[[Holy See–Italy relations|Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and San Marino]]| after=[[Francesco Colasuonno]] | years=15 April 1992 – 26 November 1994}}
{{succession box | before=[[Ugo Poletti]] | title=[[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore|Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]]| after=[[Bernard Francis Cardinal Law]] | years=29 September 1997 – 27 May 2004}}
{{succession box | before=[[Giuseppe Caprio]] | title=[[File:Croix de l Ordre du Saint-Sepulcre.svg|20px]] [[Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic)|Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem]]| after=[[John Patrick Foley]] | years=21 December 1995 – 27 June 2007}} {{s-end}}
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