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Dionigi Tettamanzi was born on 14 March, 1934 in Renate, Kingdom of Italy, is a Catholic cardinal. Discover Dionigi Tettamanzi'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 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 14 March, 1934
Birthday 14 March
Birthplace Renate, Kingdom of Italy
Date of death 5 August, 2017
Died Place Triuggio, Italy
Nationality Italy

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1934

Dionigi Tettamanzi (14 March 1934 – 5 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was named a cardinal in 1998.

Tettamanzi was born on 14 March 1934 in Renate, then in the province of Milan, now in the province of Monza and Brianza.

He was educated at the Minor Seminary of Seveso and the Seminary of Venegono Inferiore and finally at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he earned a doctorate in theology.

1957

After studying in local seminaries, he was ordained a priest on 28 June 1957 by Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI.

1960

He served in the Archdiocese of Milan as a pastor and faculty member at the Minor Seminary of Masnago and of Seveso San Pietro from 1960 until 1966.

1966

He was a faculty member of the Seminary of Venegono from 1966 to 1986.

1989

On 1 July 1989 Pope John Paul II named Tettamanzi Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo.

He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini at the Milan cathedral on 23 September.

1991

Tettamanzi submitted his resignation as bishop on 6 April 1991 to take up a five-year assignment as Secretary-General of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

1995

He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2004 and Archbishop of Milan from 2004 to 2011.

John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Genoa on 20 April 1995.

He helped John Paul draft his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (1995).

1998

At the consistory of 21 February 1998, Tettamanzi was created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Ambrogio e Carlo.

2002

He was named to succeed Martini as archbishop of Milan on 11 July 2002.

2005

Although thought one of the favorite candidates to succeed John Paul II in 2005, there were reports that he received few votes in the conclave.

Tettamanzi was said to speak only Italian.

He was little known outside his own country.

2006

In 2006, giving the opening address at the decennial conference of the Italian Catholic Church, he challenged the traditional alliance of the hierarchy with the country's conservative parties and called for more flexibility in forming alliances in contrast to the preference of Cardinal Camillo Ruini, head of the Italian Episcopal Conference, for Silvio Berlusconi.

He said: "It is better to be Christian without saying it, than to proclaim it without being it."

2007

In response to Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum of July 2007, Tettamanzi stated that the rules it presented for the celebration of the Mass in different forms did not apply to the Milan archdiocese since it uses the Ambrosian Rite rather than the Roman.

2008

In his speech on St. Ambrose day in 2008, he said that Muslims have the right to build their mosques in the cities of predominantly Catholic countries.

In 2008, in a letter addressed to Catholics who had divorced and remarried, he wrote:

"The fact that these relationships are frequently lived with a sense of responsibility and with love among the couple and for the children is a reality that the Church and its pastors take into account. It is an error to think that the norm regulating access to Eucharistic Communion means that divorced and remarried couples are excluded from a life of faith and charity, lived within the ecclesial community."

He said he wanted to "establish dialogue ... to try to hear about your daily life, to allow myself to be questioned by some of your questions.... The Church has not forgotten nor rejected you, nor does it consider you unworthy. For the Church, and for me, as a bishop, you are my beloved brothers and sisters."

2010

In his speech on St. Ambrose day 2010 he defended immigrants to Italy against attempts to classify them as criminals.

2011

In March 2009, as required upon reaching the age of 75, he submitted his resignation, and Pope Benedict accepted it on the 54th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, 28 June 2011.

In retirement, Tettamanzi lived at the Villa Sacro Cuore, a retreat house of the Milan Archdiocese, in Triuggio.

2012

In July 2012, he was named apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Vigevano.

He served in that post for a year.

2013

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that selected Pope Francis.

2014

In 2014, he published Il Vangelo della misericordia per le famiglie ferite (The Gospel of Mercy for Wounded Families) and said he anticipated allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion as long as there is no confusion about the Church's insistence on the indissolubility of marriage and there is "a restored commitment to Christian life through faithful paths that are true and serious."

2015

In 2015, at the behest of Pope Francis, he produced a study of the feasibility of creating a Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life for consideration by the Council of Cardinals.

In September 2015, Pope Francis nominated him to participate in the Synod on the Family in October.

He supported, under certain conditions, admitting the divorced and remarried to the Eucharist.

2017

He died on 5 August 2017, after a long illness.

Cardinal Tettamanzi is buried in the metropolitan Cathedral of Milan.