Corrado Bafile
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His Eminence Corrado Bafile |
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| Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints | |
Nuncio Bafile (l.) at the birthday celebration of Chancellor Adenauer, 1964
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| Archdiocese | Antiochia in Pisidia (Titular) |
| In office | 25 May 1976 – 27 June 1980 |
| Predecessor | Luigi Raimondi |
| Successor | Pietro Palazzini |
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| Ordination | 11 April 1936 |
| Consecration | 19 March 1960 by Pope John XXIII |
| Created Cardinal | 24 May 1976 by Pope Paul VI |
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4 July 1903 L'Aquila, Italy |
| Died | 3 February 2005 (aged 101) Clinica Pio XI, Rome |
| Buried | Saint Maria Paganica Church, L'Aquila, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Parents | Vincenzo Bafile (Father) Maddalena Tedeschini D'Annibale (Mother) |
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| Motto | Obedientia et Pax (Obedience and Peace) |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Corrado Bafile (4 July 1903 – 3 February 2005) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1975 to 1980, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals.
The youngest of the twelve children, Bafile was born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, to physician Vincenzo Bafile and his wife Maddalena Tedeschini D'Annibale. His brother was a military hero who died in World War I, and was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour. He attended the liceo classico in L'Aquila before studying chemistry at the University of Munich in Germany. Following his father's death, Bafile entered Sapienza University in Rome, from where he obtained a doctorate in law in 1926. Once he passed the examination for a legal procurator, he was registered with the Court of Appeals of L'Aquila in June 1927.
Bafile later decided to pursue Holy Orders in 1932, and then studied philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University for a year before attending the Pontifical Roman Seminary and Pontifical Lateran University, earning a doctorate in canon law. He was ordained to the priesthood on 11 April 1936, and then furthered his studies at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy until 1939.
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