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...Appointed a new Apostolic Delegate to the U.S.-the Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, 52, who has served as papal envoy to the Philippines since 1949. Archbishop Vagnozzi, the son of a Roman clerk, spent virtually all his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, has also had experience in the U.S. as secretary to the Apostolic Delegation from 1932 to 1942. In the U.S. post, Vagnozzi succeeds Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, whose new duties include posts in three of the Sacred Congregations...
...Appointed Bishop John Francis Dearden of Pittsburgh archbishop of Detroit to succeed the late Edward Cardinal Mooney, who died in Rome a few hours before the consistory that elected Pope John (TIME, Nov. 3). Rhode Island-born Archbishop Dearden, 51, completed his studies for the priesthood in Rome, served as rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland before going to Pittsburgh...
...Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles...
William Godfrey, 69, son of a Liverpool haulage contractor, is a scholarly, somewhat remote man who headed the English College in Rome from 1930 to 1937. In 1938 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Britain, the first papal delegate to that country since the Reformation. In World War II Archbishop Godfrey also served as chargé d'affaires in the Polish government in exile. In 1953 he was made Archbishop of Liverpool, and three years later became Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales...
Francis Koenig, 53, Archbishop of Vienna since 1956, is, like Pope John, a farmer's son and a linguist. As a priest in Nazi-ruled Austria, he was in constant trouble with the Nazis over their claim that the state alone should be responsible for youth. During World War II he was a familiar figure at Allied P.W. camps. An authority on the ancient religions of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, Koenig has written several books, articles and a dictionary on this subject. Said one of his friends last week: "Vienna has gained a cardinal but lost a scholar...