Aristide Rinaldini

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Aristide Rinaldini (5 February 1844 – 11 February 1920) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Nuncio to Spain from 1899 to 1907. He was made a cardinal in 1907.

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Biography Born on 5 February 1844, in Montefalco, Rinaldini studied at the seminary of the Vatican (1860–1862), Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome (1862–1868), and the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy and licentiate in theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on 6 June 1868 and then served as secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature to Portugal until 1872. Within the nunciature to Belgium, Rinaldini served as secretary from 1872 to 1880. He remained in Belgium as a "private agent" after the liberal cabinet of Prime Minister Walthère Frère-Orban broke diplomatic relations with the Holy See and Nuncio Serafino Vannutelli left for Rome. Rinaldini served as chargé d'affaires from 1880 to 1885 and auditor in 1887. Following his elevation to a protonotary apostolic ad instar participantium, he was the Internuncio to the Netherlands from 1887 to 1893. He also became Internuncio to Luxembourg in January 1891 and handed over his credentials to Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg on 9 February 1891. He returned to Italy when made Substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State on 31 May 1893 and remained in that position for three years. On 14 August 1896, Rinaldini was appointed Nuncio to Belgium and…Citește mai mult