Gino Paro
Gino Paro (17 June 1910 – 21 September 1988) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He became a bishop and head of the Vatican's training program for diplomats in 1962. Raised to the rank of archbishop, he served as an apostolic nuncio from 1969 to 1978.
Biography
[edit]Gino Paro was born on 17 June 1910 in Ponte di Piave, Treviso, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 5 July 1936 of the Diocese of Treviso.[1] By 1945 he had a position at the Secretariat of State.[2]
His dissertation, The right of papal legation, was published in 1948.[3] At that period he was working in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, assigned to the nunciature in Dublin with the title of auditor.[4]
On 31 August 1962, Pope John XXIII appointed him titular bishop of Diocaesarea in Isauria and President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.[5] Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot ordained him a bishop on 7 October.
On 5 May 1969, Pope Paul VI appointed him Titular Archbishop of Torcello and Apostolic Delegate to Australia and Papua New Guinea.[6] His title for Australia changed to Apostolic Pro-Nuncio on 4 July 1973,[7] and he was succeeded by Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo as the first Pro-Nuncio to Papua New Guinea on 5 April 1977.[8] His diplomatic service ended on 10 June 1978 when he was replaced as Pro-Nuncio to Australia by Luigi Barbarito.
Paro participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council.
He died on 21 September 1988.[9]
There is a street in Ponte di Piave named "Via Monsignor Gino Paro".
References
[edit]- ^ Annuario pontificio. Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana. 1978. p. 826. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXVII. 1945. p. 62.
- ^ Paro, Gino (2014). The right of papal legation. Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0813223957. Studies in Canon Law no. 211.
- ^ Keogh, Dermot (1995). Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-State Relations, 1922–1960. Cork University Press. p. 267.
- ^ "Presidenti" (in Italian). Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXI. 1969. p. 352.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXV. 1973. p. 414.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXIX. 1977. pp. 292, 298.
- ^ "Osservatore Romano" (in Italian). 23 September 1988.
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