Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pallium, a diamond-shaped loop of lamb's wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under James I and Charles I. Williams was the last ecclesiastical personage who held the Great Seal, which was entrusted to him in 1616, when he was dean of Westminster; in 1625, when he was deprived of the former office, he had become Archbishop of York. He was the successor of Francis Bacon as Keeper of the Seal. Williams was not a lawyer, and his appointment was much criticised, but no charges were brought against him in connection with his proceedings as a judge and presumably he became in time reasonably satisfactory. He died...
...Nepi, then at the Pontifical Seminary in Rome. There he attracted the favorable attention of potent Cardinal Mertel, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, became his secretary. Soon he was professor of Canon Law at the famed Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (TIME, Nov. 18). In 1898 he was elected archbishop, went to Lima as apostolic delegate for Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador. In 1901 he was called to be secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907; was the only papal Secretary of State to serve under two popes: Benedict XV, Pius...
...Saddened was the Pope last week by the death of Giuseppe Cardinal Gamba, 72, Archbishop of Turin, great and good friend of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. By Cardinal Gamba's death the vacancies in the Sacred College were increased to eight...
Died. Giuseppe Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin, 72; longtime friend of Italy's Royal Family; at Turin, Italy...