Giovanni Panico
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His Eminence Giovanni Panico |
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| Cardinal-Priest of Santa Teresa d'Avila | |
Panico at a garden party in Sydney in 1936
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| Installed | 17 October 1935 |
| Term ended | 19 March 1962 |
| Successor | Aurelio Sabattani |
| Other posts | Titular Archbishop of Justiniana Prima (1935–1962) |
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| Ordination | 14 March 1919 by Cardinal Basilio Pompilj |
| Consecration | 8 December 1935 by Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi |
| Created Cardinal | 19 March 1962 |
| Rank | Cardinal Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Santo Giovanni Panico |
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12 April 1895 Tricase, Lecce, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 12 July 1962 (aged 67) Tricase, Lecce, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Parents | Carmine Panico & Marina Zocco |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University (1910–1915), Pontifical Roman Seminary (1915–1919) & Pontifical Lateran University (1919–1922) |
| Motto | Respice stellam |
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Styles of Giovanni Panico |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Justiniana Prima (titular see) |
Giovanni Panico (12 April 1895 – 7 July 1962) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as nuncio to several countries during his career, and was created a cardinal in 1962.
Panico was born in Tricase, in the Province of Lecce, to Carmine Panico and his wife Marina Zocco, a farming family. The sixth of eleven children, he was given the baptismal name was Santo Giovanni. After studying under a private tutor, he attended the minor seminary in Ugento. He then went to Rome, where he lived in the Leonine College, a residence for students from southern Italy at the Gregorian University (1910–1915), then studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary (1915–1919). An accomplished musician on both the organ and the piano, he was the official organist for the seminary during his time there.
Panico was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basilio Pompilj on 14 March 1919, in the Lateran Basilica. That summer he founded a boys choir and a separate girls choir for the children of Rome. He then attended the Pontifical Lateran University until 1922, obtaining a doctorate in theology in 1919, and later a doctorate in canon and civil law in 1922.
Panico then did pastoral work in his home town from 1922 to 1923, and was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 25 August 1923. Invited by the Cardinal Secretary of State to join the papal diplomatic service, he was appointed the auditor of the nunciature for Argentina (1926–1931) and for Czechoslovakia (1931–1932) before becoming the chargé d'affaires in Bavaria in 1932, and again in Czechoslovakia in 1933. During his time in Prague, he also contributed to the foundation of the University of Bratislava. He was created a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 20 August 1934, and later awarded the Legion of Honor by France.
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