Francesco Canalini (born 23 March 1936) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the

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Biography

Francesco Canalini was born in

Osimo Osimo is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche Regions of Italy, region of Italy, in the province of Ancona. The municipality covers a hilly area located approximately south of the port city of Ancona and the Adriatic Sea. , Osimo had a total pop ...

, Italy, on 23 March 1936. He was ordained a priest on 19 March 1961. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the

Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy The Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy ( la, Pontificia Ecclesiastica Academia, it, Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica) is one of the Roman Colleges of the Catholic Church. The academy is dedicated to training priests to serve in the diplomatic c ...

in 1966. His early assignments in the diplomatic service included work at a meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in 1974. On 28 May 1986,

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appointed him a titular archbishop and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Indonesia. His received his episcopal consecration on 12 July 1986 from Cardinal

Agostino Casaroli Agostino Casaroli (24 November 1914 – 9 June 1998) was an Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was the most important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the persecutio ...

visited

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while Canalini was nuncio there. On 20 July 1991, he was named

Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador The Apostolic Nunciature to Ecuador is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Ecuador. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. List of papal repre ...

. On 5 December 1998, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Australia. On 8 September 2004,

named him Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and to Liechtenstein. He retired from the diplomatic service in April 2011. He was later Vicar of the

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Francesco Canalini
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