Antonio Magnoni

Antonio Magnoni was born on 13 June 1919 in Nonantola, Italy, the youngest of eleven children. He studied at the Seminary of Modena and was ordained a priest on 11 April 1943.

To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1952.^[1] He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was first assigned to the nunciature in Costa Rica on 1 March 1954, and then in Belgium and Chile. In 1964, he joined the staff of the Secretariat of State in Rome.^{[citation needed]} On 8 April 1970, he became undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.^[2]

On 24 April 1980, Pope John Paul II named him titular archbishop of Boseta and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to New Zealand and to Fiji and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean Region.^[3] He received his episcopal consecration in 1 June 1980 from Cardinal James Robert Knox.^[4]

On 22 July 1989, Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Egypt.^[5] He retired from that position upon the appointment of his successor, Paolo Giglio, on 25 March 1995, at the age of 75.^[6]

He died of lung cancer in Rome on 18 March 2007.

• Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Antonio Magnoni ^{[self-published]}