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Bruno Heim (Bruno Bernard Heim) was born on 5 March, 1911 in Olten, Switzerland, is a Bruno Bernard Heim was prelate and Latin Titular Archbishop of Xanthus. Discover Bruno Heim's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
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Born 5 March 1911
Birthday 5 March
Birthplace Olten, Switzerland
Date of death 2003
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Nationality Switzerland

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1911

Bruno Bernard Heim (5 March 1911 – 18 March 2003) was a Swiss prelate and Latin Titular Archbishop of Xanthus, a long-serving diplomat of the Holy See who among other appointments was Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, and later Apostolic Pro-Nuncio, and eventually Apostolic Nuncio, serving until his retirement as a diplomat in 1985.

Heim was also one of the most prominent armorists of twentieth century ecclesiastical heraldry.

He published five books on heraldry and was responsible for designing the coats of arms of four popes.

He was also Grand Prior of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.

Bruno Bernard Heim was born in Olten, Switzerland, the son of a stationmaster, Bernard, and his wife, Elisabeth Heim-Studer.

His artistic talent was evident at an early age.

He was introduced to heraldry at the age of 16 when a college professor persuaded him to illustrate a book the professor was writing.

Thus began a lifelong interest in the subject.

1934

In 1934 Heim was awarded a doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifico Collegio Internazionale Angelicum in Rome, and went on to study theology in Rome, at Freiburg University and at Solothurn, Switzerland.

1938

He was ordained a priest in 1938 and worked as a curate in two Swiss parishes.

1942

In 1942 he returned to Rome to study at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, later returning to Switzerland.

1946

In 1946 he was awarded a doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian University.

1947

Heim's diplomatic career began in January 1947, when he was assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris to become personal secretary to Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII.

Heim stayed in Paris for four years, during which time the two of them laid the foundations for a renaissance of heraldry in the Roman Catholic Church.

1951

Heim was next sent to the Vienna Nunciature in 1951.

When Heim was sent to Vienna in 1951 he maintained close contact with Archbishop Roncalli, who commissioned him to design his new coat of arms as Patriarch of Venice.

1958

When Roncalli was elected Pope in 1958, he asked Heim to design his personal papal coat of arms.

The new Pope asked Heim to be the head of a new heraldic secretary in the Vatican but Heim not only declined, but also advised against such an authority.

It would, in his eyes, have been stifling the artistry that is a great part of the attraction of heraldry.

Although possibly considered a "maverick" by English heraldry standards, he was in time responsible for the designs of the coat of arms of four popes, from Pope John XXIII to Pope John Paul II.

1961

When he was made Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia in 1961, he was also consecrated titular archbishop of Xanthus, a defunct see.

When asked where Xanthus was, Heim would jokingly reply: "Most of it is now in the British Museum".

1966

In 1966 he was appointed Pro-Nuncio to Finland, and in 1969, Pro-Nuncio to Egypt.

1973

In 1973 he became apostolic delegate to Great Britain.

He was known as a personal friend of the Queen Mother, and he liked to gossip with journalists.

1976

In 1976 he persuaded the Vatican to appoint Basil Hume as Archbishop of Westminster.

1978

In 1978, he had written in Heraldry in the Catholic Church that letters of the alphabet should be avoided as heraldic charges, but supported the letter M in John Paul II's coat of arms because Polish heraldry has "frequent inclusion of letters".

1980

Archbishop Heim served as patron of Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society from 1980 until his death in 2003 at the age of 92 in Olten.

1982

When Pope John Paul II visited Great Britain in 1982, the United Kingdom and the Vatican had established full diplomatic relations, and Heim became the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio, the Vatican's first fully-fledged ambassador to the Court of St. James's since the Reformation.

1985

When he retired as a diplomat in 1985, The Times referred to him as "tact personified".

After he retired from diplomacy in 1985, he wrote Or et Argent (1994), wherein he examined the heraldic rule of tincture, presenting more than 300 coats of arms where the rule had been broken.