Antonio Mennini
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The Most Reverend Antonio Mennini |
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| Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain | |
Antonio Mennini during Invocation 2011
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 18 December 2010 |
| Predecessor | Faustino Sainz Muñoz |
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| Ordination | 14 December 1974 by Ugo Poletti |
| Consecration | 12 September 2000 by Angelo Sodano |
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| Birth name | Antonio Mennini |
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2 September 1947 Rome, Italy |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
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| Ordination history of Antonio Mennini | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Ordained by | Ugo Poletti (Card. Vic.) |
| Date of ordination | 14 December 1974 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Angelo Sodano (Card. Sec. of State |
| Co-consecrators |
Camillo Ruini (Card. Vic.) Jean-Louis Tauran (Sec. for Relations w. States) |
| Date of consecration | 12 September 2000 |
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Styles of Antonio Mennini |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | n/a |
Antonio Mennini (born 2 September 1947) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the Nuncio to Great Britain since 18 December 2010, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI.
Mennini was born in Rome, Italy, in a family that has strong links with the Holy See. His father, Luigi Mennini, who died in 1997, was managing director of the Holy See's Institute for Works of Religion (the Vatican Bank) at the time allegations of money laundering were made against Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the Institute's sometime president. Antonio Mennini has 13 siblings, among them Pietro Mennini, who is the Procuratore della Repubblica di Chieti ("Public Prosecutor of Chieti").
Mennini was ordained to the priesthood on 14 December 1974. Mennini obtained a Doctor of Theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome.
Mennini is known in Italy as the priest who heard the final confession of the country’s murdered Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, in the 1970s. Moro had been kidnapped and was being held captive in a secret location by the Red Brigades, a leftist Italian militant group. Archbishop Mennini, then an assistant priest, is believed to have delivered a letter to the terrorists from Pope Paul VI and a letter to Mr Moro from his wife. Shortly after his secret mission, the Prime Minister was killed and his body dumped in central Rome. The Vatican shielded the priest from ever having to testify in subsequent state hearings concerning Moro’s abduction and murder, until Pope Francis authorized him to do so in 2015.
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