Angelo Palmas

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Angelo Palmas (21 December 1914 – 9 June 2003) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

Biography[]

Palmas was born in Villanova Monteleone, Italy, on 21 December 1914. He was ordained a priest on 5 August 1938.

To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1945.[1]

On 17 June 1964, Pope Paul VI named him a titular archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to Vietnam and Cambodia.[2][a] He received his episcopal consecration from Pope Paul on 28 June 1964.[citation needed]

On 19 April 1969, Pope Paul appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia.[4]

On 3 September 1975, Pope Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Canada.[5]

He retired when replaced in that post in March 1990.

Angelon Palmas died on 9 June 2003.

Notes[]

  1. ^ He was the first to hold the position. Pope Paul given the Delegation to Indochina its new name, the Delegation to Vietnam and Cambodia, on the day Palmas was named Delegate.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1900 – 1949" (in Italian). Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LVI. 1964. pp. 780, 862. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  3. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LVI. 1964. pp. 916–7. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXI. 1969. p. 293. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  5. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXVII. 1975. p. 560. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

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