Domenico Enrici

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Domenico Enrici

Domenico Enrici (9 April 1909 – 3 December 1997) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

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Domenico Enrici
Official of the Secretariat of State
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ChurchRoman Catholic
Appointed16 July 1973
Term ended1 December 1979
Other post(s)Titular Archbishop of Ancusa (1955–97)
Previous post(s)Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain (1969–73)
Apostolic Delegate to Australia and Papua New Guinea
(1968–69)
Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania (1962–68)
Apostolic Internuncio to Japan (1960–62)
Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
(1958–60)
Apostolic Interuncio to Indonesia (1955–58)
Orders
Ordination29 June 1933
by Quirico Travaini
Consecration1 November 1955
by Giovanni Battista Montini
Personal details
Born9 April 1909
Cervasca San Stefano, Italy
Died3 December 1997 (aged 88)
Cervasca, Italy
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Domenico Enrici was born on 9 April 1909 in Cervasca, Province of Cuneo, Italy. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cuneo on 29 June 1933.

To prepare for a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See he completed the course of study at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1935.[1] His early assignments included a stint in Ireland beginning in 1938[2] and in Taiwan in the mid 1950s.[3]

On 17 September 1955, Pope Pius XII appointed him Titular Archbishop of Ancusa and Apostolic Internuncio to Indonesia. Giovanni Montini, the Archbishop of Milan, consecrated him a bishop on 1 November. On 30 January 1958, he was named Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti. Pope John XXIII appointed him Apostolic Internuncio to Japan on 5 January 1960. On 1 October 1962, Pope John named him Apostolic Delegate to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.

He participated in the first and third sessions of Second Vatican Council.

On 26 April 1969, Pope Paul VI appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain.[citation needed] He snubbed Mervyn Stockwood, Church of England Bishop of Southwark, at a charity dinner because Stockwood had praised the work of birth control clinics.[4]

On 16 July 1973, he joined the staff of the Secretariat of State,[citation needed] but his work was not limited to Rome. He was described as a "roving ambassador ... on an inspection trip" when he visited Taiwan in February 1974.[3] He represented the Holy See at the enthronement of Spain's King Juan Carlos and the coronation of the Central African Empire's Emperor Bokassa.[5] He was also acting president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1974–1975.[6]

He retired on 1 December 1979.[citation needed] He died on 3 December 1997.[7]

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