Luigi Arrigoni (2 June 1890 – 16 August 1987) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was Apostolic Nuncio to Peru from 1946 to 1948.
Biography
Luigi Arrigoni was born on 2 June 1890 in
Morimondo, in Milan, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 18 January 1922.
He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See, where his early assignments included postings in Austria, Romania, and Belgium, which he left when the Nazis invaded. In December 1942, he played the role of courier, delivering messages too important to entrust to normal delivery services to the nunciatures in Bulgaria and Romania.
On 31 May 1946,
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...
appointed him titular archbishop of
Apamea in Syria and
Apostolic Nuncio to Peru.
He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal
Clemente Micara on 28 July 1946.
Arrigoni died in Lima on 6 July 1948 at the age of 58.
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1890 births
1948 deaths
Clergy from Milan
Apostolic nuncios to Peru
Diplomats from Milan