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{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = Cardinal
|honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]]
|name = Gaetano Cicognani
|title = [[Apostolic Signatura|Pro-Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura]]
|church = [[Roman Catholic Church]]
|appointed = 18 November 1954
|term_end = 14 November 1959
|predecessor = [[Vincenzo Macchi]]
|successor = [[Dino Staffa]]
|other_post = [[Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati]] (1959-62)
|ordination = 24 September 1904
|ordained_by = Gioachino Cantagalli
|consecration = 1 February 1925
|consecrated_by = [[Pietro Gasparri]]
|cardinal = 12 January 1953
|created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius XII]]
|rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] (1953-59)<br>[[Cardinal-Bishop]] (1959-62)
|birth_name = Gaetano Cicognani
|birth_date = 26 November 1881
|birth_place = [[Brisighella]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1962|02|05|1881|11|26}}
|death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia]] (1925-28)|[[Titular Archbishop of Ancyra]] (1925-53)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Peru]] (1928-36)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Austria]] (1936-38)|[[Apostolic Nuncio to Spain]] (1938-53)|Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Spain (1953)|[[Santa Cecilia in Trastevere|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia]] (1953-59)|[[Congregation of Rites|Prefect of the Congregation of Rites]] (1953-54)}}
|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare]]|[[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]]}}
|motto = ''Vigilat nec fatiscit''
|coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani.svg }}

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'''Gaetano Cicognani''' (26 November 1881 &ndash; 5 February 1962) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He served as [[Prefect]] of the [[Apostolic Signatura]] from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 1953 by [[Pope Pius XII]]. To date, he and his brother, [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani]], are the last pair of brothers to serve simultaneously in the [[College of Cardinals]].
'''Gaetano Cicognani''' (26 November 1881 &ndash; 5 February 1962) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He served as [[Prefect]] of the [[Apostolic Signatura]] from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 1953 by [[Pope Pius XII]]. To date, he and his brother, [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani]], are the last pair of brothers to serve simultaneously in the [[College of Cardinals]].
[[File:Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani.svg|thumbnail|Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani]]
[[File:Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani.svg|thumbnail|Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani]]

==Biography==
==Biography==
Cicognani was born in [[Brisighella]] to Guglielmo Cicognani and his wife Anna Ceroni. His brother, [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani|Amleto]], was born over a year later in 1883. To support Gaetano and his brother, their [[widow]]ed mother ran a [[general store]].<ref name="Time1961">Time Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895661,00.html The Vatican's No. 2] August 25, 1961</ref> Cicognani studied at the [[seminary]] in [[Faenza]], and was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priesthood]] by Bishop [[Gioacchino Cantagalli]] on 24 September 1904. He then went to [[Rome]] to attend the [[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare|Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'']] and was, like his brother, summoned to the elite [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]].
Cicognani was born in [[Brisighella]] to Guglielmo Cicognani and his wife Anna Ceroni. His brother, [[Amleto Giovanni Cicognani|Amleto]], was born over a year later in 1883. To support Gaetano and his brother, their [[widow]]ed mother ran a [[general store]].<ref name="Time1961">Time Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895661,00.html The Vatican's No. 2] August 25, 1961</ref> Cicognani studied at the [[seminary]] in [[Faenza]], and was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priesthood]] by Bishop [[Gioacchino Cantagalli]] on 24 September 1904. He then went to [[Rome]] to attend the [[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare|Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'']] and was, like his brother, summoned to the elite [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]].

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His Eminence

Gaetano Cicognani
Pro-Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed18 November 1954
Term ended14 November 1959
PredecessorVincenzo Macchi
SuccessorDino Staffa
Other post(s)Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1959-62)
Previous post(s)
Orders
Ordination24 September 1904
by Gioachino Cantagalli
Consecration1 February 1925
by Pietro Gasparri
Created cardinal12 January 1953
by Pope Pius XII
RankCardinal-Priest (1953-59)
Cardinal-Bishop (1959-62)
Personal details
Born
Gaetano Cicognani

26 November 1881
Brisighella, Kingdom of Italy
Died5 February 1962(1962-02-05) (aged 80)
Rome, Italy
Alma mater
MottoVigilat nec fatiscit
Coat of armsGaetano Cicognani's coat of arms
Styles of
Gaetano Cicognani
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeFrascati (suburbicarain)

Gaetano Cicognani (26 November 1881 – 5 February 1962) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. To date, he and his brother, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, are the last pair of brothers to serve simultaneously in the College of Cardinals.

Coat of arms of Gaetano Cicognani

Biography

Cicognani was born in Brisighella to Guglielmo Cicognani and his wife Anna Ceroni. His brother, Amleto, was born over a year later in 1883. To support Gaetano and his brother, their widowed mother ran a general store.[1] Cicognani studied at the seminary in Faenza, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Gioacchino Cantagalli on 24 September 1904. He then went to Rome to attend the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare and was, like his brother, summoned to the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

After working in the Roman Rota and Apostolic Signatura, Cicognani taught at the Pontifical Roman Seminary and later entered the Secretariat of State in 1915. He became secretary of the Spanish nunciature on 1 February 1916, and a Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 9 March 1916. He was made auditor of the nunciature to Belgium on 3 February 1920.

On 11 January 1925 Cicognani was appointed Nuncio to Bolivia and Titular Archbishop of Ancyra. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 1 February from Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, with Archbishops Rafaello Rossi, OCD, and Giovanni Zonghi serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Collegio Pio-Latinoamericano in Rome. Archbishop Cicognani was later named Apostolic Nuncio to Peru on 15 June 1928, to Austria on 13 June 1936, and to Spain on 16 May 1938.

Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia in his second and last consistory of 12 January 1953. Cardinal Cicognani returned to work in the Roman Curia upon his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation of Rites on 7 December of that same year. He was appointed as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on 18 November 1954 and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave that selected Pope John XXIII. That December, his brother Amleto, by a special dispensation of canon law, was also elevated to the College of Cardinals.[2] This law had so distressed Gaetano, as he felt it curbed his brother's career, that he once came close to tears when someone jokingly said "Because of you, your brother cannot become cardinal".[1] On 14 December 1959 he was named Cardinal Bishop of Frascati by Pope John.

He died in Rome, at age 80, and is buried in the collegiate church of S. Michele in his native Brisighella.

In April 1934 Archbishop Cicognani, then Nuncio to Peru, visited his brother, the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, whom Gaetano had not seen in seven years.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Time Magazine. The Vatican's No. 2 August 25, 1961
  2. ^ Pham, John-Peter (2004). Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession. Oxford University Press. p. 162. Retrieved 29 March 2018. However Canon 232 §3 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law then in force prohibited anyone having a brother who was a cardinal from being himself a cardinal.
  3. ^ TIME Magazine. In the Churches April 30, 1934
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia
1925–1928 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Apostolic Nuncio to Peru
1928–1935 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
1935–1938 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
1938–1953 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prefect of the Congregation of Rites
1953–1954 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
1954–1962 		Succeeded by
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