Mario Luigi Ciappi
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Mario Luigi Ciappi, OP (October 6, 1909 – April 23, 1996) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as personal theologian to five popes from 1955 to 1989, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1977.
Born in Florence, Mario Ciappi studied at the seminary in Lucca. He later entered the Order of Friars Preachers, more commonly known as the Dominicans, and professed in the convent of Santa Maria della Quercia in Viterbo.
After studying at the convent of San Domenico in Pistoia, he attended the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, where he obtained his doctorate in theology in 1933 with a thesis entitled De divina misericordia ut prima causa operum Dei. Ciappi was ordained a priest by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani on March 26, 1932. He continued his studies at the University of Louvain and University of Fribourg until 1935.
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