Vincenzo Fagiolo S.T.D.

Doctor of Sacred Theology

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 J.C.D.

Doctor of Canon Law

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 (5 February 1918, Segni

Segni

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 - 22 September 2000) was an Italian righteous among the nations

Righteous Among the Nations

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, a Cardinal, and from 1990 until 1994 President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

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He was educated at the Seminary

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 of Segni

Segni

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, the Seminary of Anagni

Anagni

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 and at the Pontifical Lateran University

Pontifical Lateran University

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, earning doctorate

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s in theology

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 and canon law

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. He was ordained on 6 March 1943, and worked in the Diocese of Rome

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 from 1943 to 1971. He attended the Second Vatican Council

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 as an expert.

Pope Paul VI

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 appointed him Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto on 20 November 1971. He served as Vice-President of the Episcopal Conference of Italy from 1979 until 1984. Fagiolo was honoured by Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem

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 as Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

 in 1983. He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese 15 July 1984. In 1990 Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

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 named him President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

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. He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of S. Teodoro in the consistory of November 26, 1994. He resigned the presidency of the Pontifical Council on 19 December 1994. He lost the right to participate in a conclave

Papal conclave

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when he turned 80 years old in 1998, and died two years later.