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Press Release CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE HOLY SEE TO RECEIVE 2004 PATH TO PEACE AWARD On 20 September 2004 His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Secretary of State of the Holy See, will receive the 2004 Path to Peace Award from the Path to Peace Foundation. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, and President of the Path to Peace Foundation, announced that His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Sodano has been unanimously selected to receive the Award by the Board of the Path to Peace Foundation, established to carry out projects to support the work of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations. He was ordained a priest on 23 September 1950 and joined the Holy See’s Diplomatic Corps in 1959. After having graduated from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, he served in Ecuador, Uruguay and Chile, as Secretary of the Nunciature. In 1968, he was called to Rome to serve in the then Council for Public Affairs of the Church. On 30 November 1977 he was named titular Archbishop of Nova di Cesare and Apostolic Nuncio in Chile. He was also the pontifical mediator between Chile and Argentina, for the peaceful solution to the controversy over the sovereignty of the two States in some zones of the austral territory. On 28 May 1988 John Paul II called him to serve as Secretary of the then Council for Public Affairs of the Church. On 1 March 1989, with the entry into force of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus, he assumed the title of Secretary for Relations with States. He is also the President of the Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe from May 1988, which at that time, was known as the Pontifical Commission for Russia. On 1 September 1990, he was appointed as Pro-Secretary of State. On 28 June 1991, he was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope John Paul II, and the following day was named Secretary of State. Cardinal Sodano is the Pope’s first collaborator in the government of the universal Church and is responsible for all that concerns the embassies accredited to the Holy See. He personally represented the Holy Father at the State funeral of former President Ronald W. Reagan. It is in recognition of his outstanding efforts on behalf of the cause of peace that the Path to Peace Foundation honors His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Sodano with the 2004 Path to Peace Award. In addition, the Servitor Pacis Award will be posthumously bestowed to His Excellency Archbishop Michael Courtney, Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi, who was killed in December 2003. The Awards will be presented at a Reception held by the Foundation at the University Club in New York City. New York, 1 September 2004 |
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