{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Archbishop |honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend |name = Claudio Maria Celli |image = Claudio María Celli-mc.rs.jpg |caption = Celli in 2013. |title = President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications<br>President Emeritus of the Vatican Film Library |church = Roman Catholic Church |appointed = 27 June 2007 |term_end = March 2016 |predecessor = John Patrick Foley |other_post = Titular Archbishop of Civitanova (1995–) |ordination = 19 March 1965 |consecration = 6 January 1996 |consecrated_by = Pope John Paul II |birth_name = Claudio Maria Celli |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|07|20}} |birth_place = Rimini, Kingdom of Italy |previous_post = Undersecretary for Relations with States (1990–95)<br>Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (1995–2007)<br>President of the Vatican Television Centre (2009–16) |alma_mater = Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy<br>Pontifical Lateran University }}
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'''Claudio Maria Celli''' (born 20 July 1941) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. An archbishop, Celli was President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 2007 to 2016.
==Biography== Archbishop Celli was born in Rimini, and ordained to the priesthood on 19 March 1965. He graduated from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|language =it|access-date = 4 August 2019 | title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1950 – 1999 |url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1950-1999.htm }}</ref> In 1990, he became Undersecretary of the Relations with States (equivalent to foreign minister) section of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
On 16 December 1995, Celli was appointed Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and Titular Archbishop of Cluentum. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1996 from Pope John Paul II, with Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía serving as co-consecrators.
Pope Benedict XVI named him President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on 27 June 2007.<ref>{{cite press release |date=27 June 2007| publisher = Holy See Press Office |language= it | access-date = 4 August 2019 | url =http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2007/06/27/0355/00965.html | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 27.06.2007}}</ref>
He stated in January 2008 that Catholic media "should not become...instruments of a religious or cultural fundamentalism".<ref>{{cite news | work=Zenit |url=http://www.zenit.org/article-21662?l=english |title=Catholic Media Also Need "Info-Ethics" | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080531034627/http://zenit.org/article-21662?l=english |archive-date=31 May 2008 | date=31 January 2008}}</ref> He continued: "Our media is directed not just to Catholics, but to all men...they don't exist only for–or are directed only to–people who already belong to the Church, rather they should also give careful attention to what exists in the soul of man, in his heart, where sometimes there can be distance from God, or many times, a deep nostalgia for God."
Formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See, represented by Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli (left), and Israel, represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin, December 1993|thumb|leftIn January 2009, he announced an agreement with Google to build a joint venture giving Benedict XVI his own YouTube channel.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.zenit.org/article-24828?l=english |work=Zenit |access-date=22 January 2009 |title= Google to Team Up with Vatican |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119202636/http://www.zenit.org/article-24828?l=english |archive-date=19 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On 5 January 2011 he was appointed one of the first members of the newly created Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation.<ref>{{cite press release |date=8 August 2012 | publisher = Holy Office |language= it | access-date = 4 August 2019 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/01/05/0007/00018.html | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 05.01.2011}}</ref> Marking the 2012 World Day of Communications, Archbishop Celli, speaking on Pope Benedict's message of silence said, "the topic chosen by the Holy Father for this World Day of Social Communications is attentive to today’s communicative phenomena and invites us all to reflect on this fundamental point: Silence is an integral part of communication. This is why, when we wish communication to be genuinely human -- because it begins from one man and is addressed to other men -- the word that is communicated must be nourished by silence to be more meaningful, to be more true. Because it is in silence that I hear, it is in silence that I understand more attentively what are the needs, the sufferings, the search for the good and true that is in the heart of other men".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zenit.org/article-34800?l=english |work= Zenit| title= Vatican Official on Pope's Message for Sunday's Communications Day|access-date=19 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605054805/http://www.zenit.org/article-34800?l=english |archive-date=5 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In September 2014 he was appointed a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.<ref>{{cite press release |date=13 September 2004| publisher = Holy See Press Office |language= it | access-date = 4 August 2019 | url =http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2014/09/13/0632/01406.html | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 13.09.2014}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title=Undersecretary for Relations with States | before=Jean-Louis Tauran | after=Celestino Migliore| years=1 December 1990 – 16 December 1995}} {{succession box | title=Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | before=Giovanni Lajolo | after=Domenico Calcagno| years=16 December 1995 – 27 June 2007}} {{succession box | title=President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications | before=John Patrick Foley | after=none, dicastary dissolved| years=27 June 2007 – March 2016}} {{s-end}}
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