Virgilio Noè

Styles of Virgilio Noè
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Voncaria (Titular)

Virgilio Cardinal Noè (30 March 1922 – 24 July 2011) was an Italian Catholic prelate.

Virgilio Noè was born in 1922 in Zelata di Bereguardo, Lombardy, where the house is marked by a commemorative plaque. He studied at the Seminary of Pavia and was ordained a priest on 1 October 1944 by the Bishop of Pavia, Carlo Allorio. After ordination he became parish priest of the parish of San Salvatore in Pavia and founded a youth association with the aim especially of promoting participation in the Liturgy.

In 1948 Bishop, Allorio sent him to Rome for studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he gained a doctorate in ecclesiastical history in 1952, with a thesis entitled La politica religiosa dei re longobardi (The Religious Policies of the Lombard Kings).

On returning to the diocese he taught Ecclesiastical History, Patristics, Liturgy and Art History in the seminaries of Pavia and Tortona. In this period he was also spiritual director in the Collegio Sant'Agostino and the Collegio San Giorgio, and played a leading role in the diocesan liturgical commission. Among the projects undertaken were diocesan Eucharistic Congresses in 1956 and 1964, in the first of which the Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini took part.

In the years 1964-1969, starting therefore during the period of the Second Vatican Council, he was in charge of the national Centro di Azione Liturgica (Centre for Liturgical Action) in Rome, and editor of its journal Liturgia. He was also lecturer in Sacred Art at the recently founded Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant'Anselmo in the city, and when a commission was formed to revise the papal liturgical celebrations, he was made a member. From 1966 to 1968 he also served as vice-rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary (Pontificio Seminario Lombardo dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo) in Rome.

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