Giuseppe Fietta
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Giuseppe Fietta was an Italian
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 prelate
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 of the Roman Catholic Church
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 who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy from 1953 to 1958, and was elevated to the cardinalate
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 in 1958.

Biography

Born in Ivrea
Ivrea
Ivrea is a town and comune of the province of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. Situated on the road leading to the Aosta Valley , it straddles the Dora Baltea and is regarded as the centre of the Canavese area. Ivrea lies in a basin that, in prehistoric times, formed a great lake...

, Giuseppe Fietta studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University
Pontifical Gregorian University
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 in Rome
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 and was ordained
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 to the priesthood
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 on November 4, 1906. He then served as private secretary
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 to the bishop
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 of Alghero
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, Oristano
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, and Cagliari
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 until 1923. Fietta was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness
Monsignor
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 on May 9, 1920, and served as the rector
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 of the Seminary
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 of Alghero and a canon
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 of its cathedral
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 chapter
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 from 1923 to 1924, whence he became secretary
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 of the nunciature
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 to Costa Rica
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. He was later made chargé d'affaires
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of the Costa Rican nunciature in 1925.

On March 30, 1926, Fietta was appointed Titular Archbishop
Titular bishop
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 of Serdica and, on the following September 27, Internuncio
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 to Central America
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 by Pope Pius XI
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. He received his episcopal consecration
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 on October 10 of that same year from Cardinal Giovanni Bonzano
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, with Archbishop Ernesto Piovella and Bishop Agustín Blessing Presinger, CM
Lazarists
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, serving as co-consecrators
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, in the church
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 of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
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. After being given the status of a nuncio
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 on July 8, 1926, Fietta was later named Nuncio to Haiti
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 and the Dominican Republic
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 on October 18, 1930, Nuncio to Argentina
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 on August 8, 1936, and Nuncio to Italy on January 26, 1953. The Archbishop attempted to have diplomatic relations established between the Vatican
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 and the Soviet Union
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.

Pope John XXIII
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-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...

 created him Cardinal-Priest
Cardinal (Catholicism)
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 of S. Paolo alla Regola in the consistory
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 of December 15, 1958, ceasing to be nuncio on that same date. Despite his distinguished career as a papal
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 diplomat
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, the Cardinal enjoyed strolling the streets of his native Ivrea and playing bocce
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with his friends.

Cardinal Fietta died in his native Ivrea, at age 76, and is buried at its cathedral.

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