Luigi Traglia (3 April 1895 – 22 November 1977) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as

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from 1965 to 1968, and

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from 1974 until his death. Traglia was elevated to the

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in 1960.

Life and career in Church

Traglia was born in Albano Laziale, and studied at the

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and

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in Rome. He was

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to the priesthood by Cardinal

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on 10 August 1917, and then finished his studies in 1919. While teaching at the

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from 1919 to 1936, Traglia was also an official of the Sacred Congregations of Seminaries and Universities and of the Propagation of the Faith from 1927 to 1930. On 18 August 1930, he became assessor and subpromoter-general of the faith in the latter

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. He was raised to the rank of

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of the

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on 17 September 1936. On 21 December 1936, Traglia was appointed Vicar General of The Diocese of Rome and

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of '' Caesarea in Palaestina''. He received his

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on 6 January 1937, from Cardinal Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, with Archbishop Domenico Spolverini and Bishop Angelo Calabretta serving as co-consecrators, in the

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. Traglia was later named President of the Special Committee for the Marian Holy Year on 7 October 1953, and of the commission for the first Roman synod in 1959. He was made

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of S. Andrea della Valle by

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in the

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of 28 March 1960.

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changed Traglia's titular church to that of

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on 28 April 1969. On 15 March 1972, he was elevated to Cardinal Bishop of Albano. From 1962 to 1965, Traglia participated in the

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, during the course of which he served as a cardinal elector in the 1963 papal conclave that selected

. He was named

on 30 March 1965. In this position, he governed the

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in the name of the Pope, who is the

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. After resigning as Cardinal Vicar on 9 January 1968, Traglia was appointed Apostolic Chancellor on the following 13 January. He resigned that post on 7 February 1973, not long before the office was abolished on 27 February of that same year. Traglia was elected and confirmed as Vice-Dean of the

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on 24 March 1972, later becoming

and

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, while retaining his previous suburbicarian title, on 7 January 1974. On 24 December of that year, he served as papal legate to the opening of the

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at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Traglia died in Rome in 1977.

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Catholic Hierarchy
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