Giovanni Lajolo
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His Eminence Giovanni Lajolo |
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| President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State | |
Cardinal Lajolo in Zarvanytsia, Ukraine; 18 July 2009
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| Appointed | 15 September 2006 |
| Term ended | 1 October 2011 |
| Predecessor | Edmund Casimir Szoka |
| Successor | Giuseppe Bertello |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio |
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| Ordination | 29 April 1960 by Ugo Poletti |
| Consecration | 6 January 1989 by Pope John Paul II |
| Created Cardinal | 24 November 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Deacon |
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| Birth name | Giovanni Lajolo |
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3 January 1935 Novara, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Giovanni Lajolo (born 3 January 1935 in Novara, Italy) is a Cardinal and former President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State.
He studied at the Seminary of Novara, the Pontifical Roman Seminary, and the Pontifical Gregorian University where he earned a licentiate in philosophy in 1955 and a licentiate in theology in 1959. He was ordained a priest on 29 April 1960. He entered the University of Munich where he studied for a doctorate in canon law which he was awarded in 1965. Then in 1965 he entered the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy to study diplomacy, leaving in 1968.
He entered the service of the Secretariat of State in 1970. He worked in the nunciature in Germany collaborating with Corrado Bafile, future cardinal, from 1970 to November 1974. He was a staff member of the Council for Public Affairs of the Church from November 1974. He was named counselor of nunciature on 1 January 1983. He closely followed the negotiations that led to the signing, in 1984, of the revision of the concordat between Italy and Holy See.
On 3 October 1988, Lajolo was appointed Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and Titular Archbishop of Caesariana by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1989 from John Paul himself, with archbishops Edward Idris Cassidy and José Tomás Sánchez serving as co-consecrators, in St. Peter's Basilica. Lajolo was later named Nuncio to Germany on 7 December 1995, and Secretary for Relations with States on 7 October 2003. As Secretary, he served as the foreign minister of the Vatican.
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