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Antonio Cardinal Quarracino

His Eminence
Antonio Quarracino
Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Archdiocese Buenos Aires
Appointed 10 July 1990
Installed 22 November 1990
Term ended 28 February 1998
Predecessor Juan Carlos Aramburu
Successor Jorge Bergoglio
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Orders
Ordination 22 December 1945
Consecration 8 April 1962
by Anunciado Serafini
Created Cardinal 28 June 1991
by Pope John Paul II
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Birth name Antonio Quarracino
Born (1923-08-08)8 August 1923
Pollica, Province of Salerno, Kingdom of Italy
Died 28 February 1998(1998-02-28) (aged 74)
Buenos Aires
Buried Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
Nationality Argentine
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Alma mater San José Seminary, La Plata
Motto ipsi gloria
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Antonio Quarracino
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Informal style Cardinal
See Buenos Aires

Antonio Quarracino (8 August 1923 – 28 February 1998) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires between 1990 and 1998.

Quarracino was born in Pollica, Province of Salerno, Italy. His family emigrated to Argentina when he was 4 years old, settling in the town of San Andrés de Giles in the province of Buenos Aires.

Quarracino was ordained priest on 22 December 1945, and became a professor at the Diocesan Seminar of Mercedes. He also taught theology at the Universidad Católica Argentina.

He was appointed Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Buenos Aires, by Pope John XXIII, on 3 February 1962, and received the episcopal see on 8 April of the same year. On 3 August 1968 Paul VI moved him to the diocese of Avellaneda (whose new cathedral was built during his rule).

John Paul II promoted him to the Archdiocese of La Plata on 18 December 1985, and then on 10 July 1990 to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, a see to which is attached the title of Primate of Argentina. He was elected to preside the Argentine Episcopal Conference in the following November, and then reelected, until 1996. He was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Salute a Primavalle in consistory on 28 June 1991.


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