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Alcide Giuseppe Marina, C.M. (24 March 1887 – 17 September 1950) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as an educator and superior of the
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until 1936 and then in the diplomatic service of the
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Biography

Alcide Marina was born in Santimento, a village near
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, Italy, on 24 March 1887. He studied at the local seminary and then at the
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. He took his first vows as a Vincentian on 25 December 1906 and then studied at the congregation's seminary at Montecitorio in Rome. After an interruption of his studies for military service, he was ordained a priest on 18 December 1909. He then taught at the Alberoni and at San Jacopo in Florence. He returned to the military from 1915 to 1919 as a chaplain during World War I. After the war he returned to teaching and began his fifteen years in charge of the Vincentians' principal Italian-language publication, the ''Annali della Mission'', moving its operations to Rome, where he directed the Pontifical Liturgical Academy and as editor transformed '' Ephemerides Liturgicae'', the oldest international Catholic journal regarding the liturgy, a publication that had close links to the
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. From 1921 to 1932 he headed the Collegio Alberoni as well. There he initiated a revival of studies devoted to Thomas Aquinas and undertook the translation into Italian of the works of the founder of the Congregation of the Mission, St
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, as well as the expansion of its science program and art gallery. As Provincial superior he led the Roman province of the Vincentians from 1932 to 1936. On 7 March 1936,
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appointed him a
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and
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to Iran. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 May 1936 at the hands of the Secretary of State Cardinal
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. On 18 April 1945, Pope Pius reassigned Marina to be Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and again on 22 March to be Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon. He was also Apostolic Administrator of Constantinople from 1945 to 18 May 1947. He died in Rome on 17 September 1950 at the age of 63. A street in Piacenza is named for him, Via Alcide Marina.


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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Alcide Giuseppe Marina, C.M.
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