Carlo Chiarlo (4 November 1881 – 21 January 1964) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as nuncio to several countries, mostly Latin American, and was elevated to the

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in 1958.

Biography

Born in

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, Chiarlo studied at the

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Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one ...

and the

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in Rome before being

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to the priesthood on 28 May 1904. He then taught at the seminary and did pastoral work in Lucca until 1917. Chiarlo was secretary and later chargé d'affaires of the nunciature to Peru from 1917 to 1922, when he was named

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of the Polish nunciature. He was raised to the rank of

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of Amida by Pope Pius XI. He received his

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on the following 12 November from Cardinal

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, with Archbishop Giovanni Volpi and Bishop Theodor Kubina serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the ''

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'' in Rome. He was named Nuncio to Bolivia on 12 November. On 28 January 1932, Chiarlo was made Apostolic Internuncio to Central America, with responsibility as Nuncio to Costa Rica, Honduras,

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, El Salvador, and

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, as well as Apostolic Delegate to Guatemala. His role was then modified on 30 September 1933 with the erection of nunciatures, leaving him Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama, with his role as Nuncio to El Salvador and Honduras and Delegate to Guatemala assigned to

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later that year. Returning to Rome, he was charged with the special mission of assisting prisoners of

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on 3 December 1941. He was named head of the pontifical mission to Germany in 1945. He was appointed Nuncio to Brazil, where he would be a beloved figure, on 19 March 1946. He was replaced in Brazil by Armando Lombardi on 22 September 1954 and remained a nuncio at the disposition of the Secretariat of State.

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created him

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of S. Maria in Portico in the

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of 15 December 1958. Cardinal Chiarlo lived long enough to attend only the first two sessions of the

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from 1962 to 1963, and serve as a cardinal elector in the 1963 papal conclave that selected

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. He died in Lucca at age 82 and is buried in an urban cemetery there.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiarlo, Carlo 20th-century Italian cardinals Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni Participants in the Second Vatican Council 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni Apostolic Nuncios to Bolivia Apostolic Nuncios to Brazil Apostolic Nuncios to Costa Rica Apostolic Nuncios to Guatemala Apostolic Nuncios to Nicaragua Apostolic Nuncios to Panama Apostolic Nuncios to El Salvador Apostolic Nuncios to Honduras 1881 births 1964 deaths Cardinals created by Pope John XXIII People from the Province of Massa-Carrara Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)