Word: proprefect
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...youngest, most brilliant and most cosmopolitan cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
Last March, still leading the way, the soft-voiced, blue-eyed man became the first American cardinal ever appointed to the powerful Roman Curia. But when he arrived in April to take up his duties as Proprefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, he was a stricken man. A blood clot forced the amputation of his right arm (TIME, May 5). On the mend, he was felled by a stroke, later complicated by heart disease. Last week at 70. and at the peak of a brilliant career, Samuel Cardinal Stritch died...
...Never before in history," said Samuel Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, "has an American prelate been appointed to such high office." He was referring to himself. From Rome last week came news that Pope Pius XII had appointed him proprefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Under the aged (85) prefect, Pietro Fumasoni Cardinal Biondi 70-year-old Cardinal Stritch will head the church's entire missionary effort...
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