Paolo Giobbe

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Paolo Cardinal Giobbe (January 10, 1880—August 14, 1972) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Papal Datary in the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Biography

Paolo Giobbe was born in Rome, and studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary (from where he obtained doctorates in theology and canon law). He was ordained to the priesthood on December 4, 1904, and then did pastoral work in Rome until 1909. Made a Pontifical Ceremonery Supernumerary on May 3, 1909, Giobbe served as a censor of the Roman Liturgical Academy, minutant in the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and an assistant at the Pontifical Urbaniana University from 1909 to 1918. In 1911, he was a pontifical "ablegato" for the imposition of the red biretta to Enrique Cardinal Almaraz y Santos, Archbishop of Seville. Giobbe was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on November 6, 1917, and rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1918.

On March 30, 1925, Giobbe was appointed Nuncio to Colombia and Titular Archbishop of "Ptolemais in Thebaide". He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 26 from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, with Archbishop Tito Trocchi and Bishop Alessandro Fontana serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Urbaniana. Giobbe was later named Internuncio, with title of nuncio "ad personam", to the Netherlands on August 12, 1935, and created Cardinal Priest of "S. Maria in Vallicella" by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of December 15, 1958.

Giobbe was made Papal Datary on November 14, 1959, and remained in that Curial post until it was suppressed on January 1, 1968. On August 8, 1961, he was made Cardinal Patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta. From 1962 to 1965, Giobbe attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

Giobbe died in Rome, at age 92, as the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. He is buried in the chapel of the Congregation for the Evangelization of the Peoples at the Campo di Verano cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-g.htm#Giobbe Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgiobbe.html Catholic-Hierarchy]