Torquato Dini (27 June 1893 – 26 March 1934) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who led the Pontifical Urban University for a decade. He was appointed the pope's representative to a group of countries in the Middle East and Africa but died just as he was taking up that assignment.

Biography

Torquato Dini was born on 27 June 1893 in

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, Italy. He was Rector of the

Pontifical Urban University The Pontifical Urban University, also called the ''Urbaniana'' after its names in both Latin and Italian, is a pontifical university that was under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The university's mission is to ...

, the educational arm of the

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, from 1925 to 1934. On 12 November 1933,

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appointed him titular archbishop of

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and Apostolic Delegate to Egypt, Arabia, Crete, Ethiopia, Palaestine, Trans-Jordan and Cyprus. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 January. He died unexpectedly in Cairo at the age of 40 on 26 March 1934, fourteen days after arriving there.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Torquato Dini
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dini, Torquato 1893 births 1934 deaths People from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino Apostolic nuncios to Egypt 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops Rectors of the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide