{{short description|Italian prelate of the Catholic Church|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Domenico Calcagno | honorific-suffix = | title = President Emeritus of the [[Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See]] | image = Arcivescovo Domenico Calcagno (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Calcagno in 2007 | church = Roman [[Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected = | appointed = 7 July 2011 | term = | term_start = | quashed = | term_end = 26 June 2018 | predecessor = [[Attilio Nicora]] | opposed = | successor = [[Nunzio Galantino]] | other_post = Cardinal priest of [[Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina]] <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 29 June 1967 | ordained_by = [[Giuseppe Siri]] | consecration = 9 March 2002 | consecrated_by = [[Dionigi Tettamanzi]] | cardinal = 18 February 2012 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] | rank = {{Unbulleted list|Cardinal deacon (2012–22)|Cardinal priest (2022–present)}} <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Domenico Calcagno | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|02|03|df=yes}} | birth_place = Tramontana, [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality = Italian | religion = Roman Catholic | residence = | parents = | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Bishop of Savona-Noli]] (2002–2007)|Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (2007–2011)}} | alma_mater = [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] | motto = ''In veritate libertas'' | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Domenico Calcagno.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = coat of arms <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }} {{Infobox cardinal styles | name=Domenico Calcagno | dipstyle=His Eminence | offstyle=Your Eminence | relstyle=Cardinal | deathstyle= | image =Coat of arms of Domenico Calcagno.svg | image_size = 200px}} '''Domenico Calcagno''' (born 3 February 1943) is an Italian prelate of the [[Catholic Church]]. He has been a bishop since 2002 and a cardinal since 2012. From 7 July 2011 to 26 June 2018, he was President of the [[Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See]], where he had served as secretary since 2007.
==Biography== Calcagno was born in [[Parodi Ligure|Tramontana di Parodi Ligure]], in the [[Province of Alessandria]] on 3 February 1943. After studying arts at the [[Diocese|diocesan]] [[seminary]], he attended the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in Rome, earning a degree in [[dogmatic theology]]. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1967 by Cardinal [[Giuseppe Siri]].
After several years of parish ministry, he was appointed professor of theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and, later, at the Higher Institute of Religious Studies of [[Liguria]]. He served as president of the diocesan clergy institute and was the [[episcopal vicar]] for "new activities". At the national level, his assignments included: Secretary of the Italian Priests Commission, Inspector of the [[Italian Episcopal Conference]] for Institutes of Religious Sciences, Director of National Missionary Cooperation between Churches, and Treasurer of the Bishops Conference.
[[Pope John Paul II]] appointed him Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Savona-Noli|Savona-Noli]] on 25 January 2002.<ref>{{cite press release|url= http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2002/01/25/0048/00142.html | language=it| title= Rinunce e Nomine, 25.01.2002 | access-date= 14 August 2017 | date= 25 January 2002| publisher =Holy See Press Office}}</ref> He was [[Bishop (Catholicism)|consecrated]] on 9 March. He served as Bishop of Savona until Pope Benedict appointed him Secretary of the [[Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See]] (APSA) and with the personal title of archbishop on 7 July 2007.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2007/07/07/0380/01047.html | language=it| title= Rinunce e Nomine, 07.07.2007 | access-date= 14 August 2017 | date= 7 July 2007| website=Press Office of the Holy See}}</ref> On 7 July 2011 he became its president.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/07/07/0427/01070.html | language=it| title= Rinunce e Nomine, 07.07.2011 | access-date= 14 August 2017 | date= 7 July 2011| publisher =Holy See Press Office }}</ref>
On 20 February 2012 Pope Benedict created him [[Cardinal-Deacon]] assigned to the church of [[Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Churches Assigned to New Cardinals|url=https://zenit.org/articles/churches-assigned-to-new-cardinals/|access-date=14 August 2017|work=Zenit|date=20 February 2012}}</ref>
He was one of the [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 2013|cardinal electors]] who participated in the [[Papal conclave, 2013|2013 papal conclave]] that elected [[Pope Francis]].<ref>{{cite news | url = https://zenit.org/articles/list-of-cardinal-electors/ | date= 12 March 2013 | access-date = 14 August 2017 |work= Zenit | title = List of Cardinal Electors }}</ref>
Pope Francis made him a member of the [[Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life]] on 29 March 2014.<ref>{{cite press release | publisher =Holy See Press Office |language= it| access-date = 24 June 2018 | title =Rinunce e Nomine, 29.03.2014 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2014/03/29/0224/00489.html | date= 29 March 2014 }}</ref>
In October 2016, when several cardinals protested his plan for the APSA to lease commercial space to [[McDonald's]] in a building where several cardinals live not far from St. Peter's Basilica, he dismissed their complaints. He said, "I don't see the scandal."<ref>{{cite news|last1=McKenna|first1=Josephine|title=A McDonald's at the Vatican? Cardinals aren't lovin' it|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/mcdonalds-vatican-cardinals-arent-lovin-it|access-date=14 August 2017|work=National Catholic Reporter|date=18 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=La Rocca|first1=Orazio|title=Il cardinale Domenico Calcagno: 'Ci hanno fatto un'offerta buona, sul McDonald's adesso indietro non si torna'|url=http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/10/15/news/il_cardinale_domenico_calcagno_ci_hanno_fatto_un_offerta_buona_sul_mcdonald_s_adesso_indietro_non_si_torna_-149825223/|access-date=14 August 2017|work=La Repubblica|date=15 October 2016}}</ref>
Francis accepted his resignation as President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See on 26 June 2018.<ref>{{cite press release | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/26/180626d.html | date= 26 June 2018 | access-date = 26 June 2018 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Resignations and Appointments, 26.06.2018}}</ref>
On 4 March 2022, he was elevated to the rank of cardinal priest.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Ordinary Public Consistory for the vote on some Causes for Canonization |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/03/04/220304b.html |access-date=4 March 2022 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | date = 4 March 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web| access-date = 6 December 2017| title= Calcagno Card. Domenico |publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | url= https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_calcagno_d.html | url-status=live | archive-date= 15 August 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170815030105/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_calcagno_d.html }}
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