Luigi Dadaglio, 75; Italian Cardinal
Italian Cardinal Luigi Dadaglio, who held Vatican diplomatic posts in North and South America, died Wednesday at the age of 75.
The Vatican said Dadaglio had been hospitalized at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital for several days with a heart ailment.
Dadaglio was ordained in 1937 and joined the Vatican Secretariat of State five years later. He served in Vatican diplomatic missions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Canada, Australia, Colombia, Venezuela and Spain.
Dadaglio’s death brings the number of members of the College of Cardinals to 145. Of those, 109 are under age 80 and eligible to take part in a conclave to elect a new Pope.
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