{{Short description|Catholic cardinal (1914–1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Luigi Dadaglio | image = Luigi Dadaglio (cropped).jpg | caption = Dadaglio in 1988. | title = [[Major Penitentiary]] and [[Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]] | church = Roman [[Catholic Church]] | appointed = 15 December 1986 | term_end = 22 August 1990 | predecessor = [[Carlo Confalonieri]] | successor = [[Ugo Poletti]] | other_post = [[San Pio V a Villa Carpegna|Cardinal-Deacon of San Pio V a Villa Carpegna]] (1985–90) | ordination = 22 May 1937 | consecration = 8 December 1961 | consecrated_by = [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani]] | cardinal = 25 May 1985 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] | birth_name = Luigi Dadaglio | birth_date = 28 September 1914 | birth_place = [[Sezzadio]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|08|22|1914|09|28|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic|Policlinico Agostino Gemelli]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela]] (1961–67)|Titular Archbishop of Lerus (1961–85)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Spain]] (1967–80)|[[Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments|Secretary of the Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship]] (1980–82)|Secretary for the Sacraments of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1982–84)|[[Apostolic Penitentiary|Major Pro-Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary]] (1984–85)|Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary (1985–90)}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Pontifical Lateran University]]|[[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]]}} | motto = ''Sola virtus manet'' | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Luigi Dadaglio.svg }}
{{Infobox cardinalstyles | cardinal name=Luigi Dadaglio | dipstyle=His Eminence | offstyle=Your Eminence | See=Lerus ([[titular see]]) | image=Coat of arms of Luigi Dadaglio.svg | image_size= 200px }}
'''Luigi Dadaglio''' (28 September 1914 – 22 August 1990) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and [[Apostolic Penitentiary|Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary]].
==Early life== He was born in [[Sezzadio]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]. He was educated at the [[Seminary]] of [[Acqui]]. He was ordained on 22 May 1937. From 1938 until 1942 he continued his studies at the [[Pontifical Lateran University]] where he earned a ''doctorate in utroque iure'' (in both [[Canon law|canon]] and civil law). He later studied at the [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]] in Rome where from 1941 until 1943 he studied diplomacy.
==Early priesthood== He joined the [[Vatican Secretariat of State]] (section of Ordinary Affairs) in 1942. He was the secretary in the [[Nuncio|nunciature]] in Haiti and [[Dominican Republic]] from 1946 until 1950 when he was promoted to be the Auditor in the apostolic delegation to the United States, until 1953. He served as auditor in Canada and in Australia also. He was transferred to be the counselor in the nunciature in [[Colombia]] from 1958 until 1960. He was in charge, provisionally, of the nunciature in [[Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela|Venezuela]] in April 1960, until he himself was named Nuncio in Venezuela on 28 October 1961.
==Episcopate== He was appointed [[Titular see|titular]] [[Archbishop]] of Lerus by [[Pope John XXIII]]. He was consecrated on 8 December 1961 by [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani]], [[Cardinal Secretary of State]], who was assisted by Archbishop [[Angelo Dell'Acqua]], substitute of the Secretariat of State. He attended the Second Vatican Council. He was appointed [[Apostolic Nuncio to Spain]] on 8 July 1967. He was named Secretary of the [[Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments]] on 4 October 1980. [[Pope John Paul II]] named him [[Promagistrate|Pro]]-Major Penitentiary on 8 April 1984.
==Cardinalate== He was created and proclaimed [[Cardinal-Deacon]] of ''[[S. Pio V a Villa Carpegna]]'' in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 25 May 1985. Having been created a Cardinal he was then named full Major Penitentiary two days later. He was named [[Archpriest]] of the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]] in 1986. He resigned the penitentiary on 6 April 1990. He died on 22 August.
==Personal life== Dadaglio was one of the people accused on the so-called [[Pecorelli list]], alleging membership in [[Freemasonry]] of 121 men associated with the Vatican, where he is listed with the code name “LUDA”, supposedly initiated on 8 October 1967.<ref name="Osservatore Politico,p.4">{{cite web|date=September 12, 1978|title=The Vatican grand lodge - the list of alleged Freemasons|page=4|access-date=April 11, 2023|url=http://www.giovannipetta.eu/sessano%20del%20molise/pecorelli_op/op_780912-signed.pdf|archive-date=September 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908192607/http://www.giovannipetta.eu/sessano%20del%20molise/pecorelli_op/op_780912-signed.pdf|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> This list was named for the Italian journalist [[Carmine Pecorelli]] (himself a member of [[Propaganda Due]], assassinated in 1979), who published it in his journal ''Osservatore Politico'' in 1978, but it had also been published elsewhere in ''[[Panorama (magazine)|Panorama]]'' two years earlier.{{sfn|Agnoli|1996|p=3}}
==Honours== * Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Civil Merit]] (Kingdom of Spain, 18 March 1977).<ref>[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1977/05/09/pdfs/A10105-10105.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado]</ref> * Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Charles III]] (Kingdom of Spain, 20 October 1980).<ref>[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1980/10/29/pdfs/A24100-24100.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado]</ref> == References == {{reflist}}
=== Bibliography === * {{cite book|last1=Agnoli|first1=Carlo Alberto|title=La massoneria alla conquista della Chiesa|publisher=EILIES|date=1996|isbn=8871300181}} {{start box}} {{s-rel|ca}}
{{succession box | before=[[Antonio Riberi]] | title=[[Apostolic Nuncio to Spain]]| after=[[Antonio Innocenti]] | years=8 July 1967 – 4 October 1980}}
{{succession box | before=[[Giuseppe Paupini]] | title=[[Apostolic Penitentiary|Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary]]| after=[[William Wakefield Baum]] | years=8 April 1984 – 6 April 1990}}
{{succession box | before=[[Carlo Confalonieri]] | title=[[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore|Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]]| after=[[Ugo Poletti]] | years=15 December 1986 – 22 August 1990}} {{succession box | before=[[Paul-Pierre Philippe]]| title= Cardinal-Deacon of [[S. Pio V a Villa Carpegna]]| years=1985–1990 | after=[[José Tomás Sánchez]]}} {{end box}} {{Cardinals created by John Paul II}} {{Authority control}}
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