Giovanni Umberto Colombo
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His Eminence Giovanni Colombo |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Milan |
| Appointed | 10 August 1963 |
| Term ended | 29 December 1979 |
| Predecessor | Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul VI) |
| Successor | Carlo Maria Martini |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 29 May 1926 by Eugenio Tosi |
| Consecration | 7 December 1960 by Giovanni Battista Montini |
| Created Cardinal | 22 February 1965 by Pope Paul VI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest of San Martino ai Monti |
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| Born |
6 December 1902 Caronno Pertusella, Italy |
| Died | 20 May 1992 (aged 89) Milan |
| Buried | Cathedral of Milan |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Milan |
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Giovanni Colombo (6 December 1902 – 20 May 1992) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1963 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Giovanni Colombo was born in Caronno Pertusella, Lombardy, the sixth of the seven children of Enrico and Luigia (née Millefanti) Colombo. His mother worked as a shirt-maker and embroiderer. Colombo was baptized two days after his birth, on 8 December.
Initially studying with the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Ivrea, he then attended seminaries in Seveso, Monza, and Milan (where he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1926), and received a doctorate in letters from the Catholic University of Milan in 1932. Receiving the clerical tonsure on 26 May 1923, Colombo was eventually ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Eugenio Tosi, OSSCA, on 29 May 1926 in the Cathedral of Milan. He was then made Professor of Letters at the Seveso seminary in October of that same year.
At the seminary in Venegono Inferiore, he served as Professor of Italian (named in October 1931), Professor of Sacred Eloquence (1932–1944), and rector (2 August 1939 – 1953). Professor of Italian language and literature at the Faculties of Education and of Letters and Philosophy of the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore of Milan, 1937–1939. Colombo was raised to the rank of Monsignor on 7 December 1948, and later Rector Major of the Seminaries of Milan on 23 July 1953. On 30 August 1954, he administered Extreme Unction to Ildefonso Schuster, who would be beatified in 1991.
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