Word: gasparri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, that in 1926, at the age of 44, Mooney was made a titular archbishop and appointed apostolic delegate, first to India and later to Japan-the first American to have a permanent high-ranking Vatican diplomatic post...