Angelo Scola
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His Eminence Angelo Scola |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan | |
Cardinal Scola in 2014
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| Archdiocese | Milan |
| Appointed | 28 June 2011 |
| Installed | 25 September 2011 |
| Predecessor | Dionigi Tettamanzi |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli |
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| Ordination | 18 July 1970 by Abele Conigli |
| Consecration | 21 September 1991 by Bernardin Gantin |
| Created Cardinal | 21 October 2003 by John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Born |
7 November 1941 Malgrate, Lombardy, Italy |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | SUFFICIT GRATIA TUA (Your Grace Suffices) |
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Angelo Scola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo ˈskɔːla]) (born 7 November 1941) is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church, philosopher and theologian. He was appointed Archbishop of Milan by Pope Benedict XVI on 28 June 2011. He had served as Patriarch of Venice from 2002 to 2011. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.
Scola was born in Malgrate, Milan, to Carlo Scola, a truck driver, and Regina Colombo. He was the younger of two sons; Pietro, his elder brother, died in 1983. He attended high school at the Manzoni Lyceum in Lecco, where he participated in the youth movement Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth).
He studied philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart from 1964 to 1967, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation on Christian philosophy. During this time served as vice-president and thereafter President of the Milanese diocesan chapter of the Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, the university student wing of Catholic Action.
At the university Scola met Luigi Giussani, the founder of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. After earning his degree in philosophy and teaching in high schools, Scola decided to become a priest and entered in the Archiepiscopal seminary of Milan, studying one year in Saronno and the others in Venegono. In 1969 Scola asked to the Seminary of Venegono to be ordained Subdeacon ahead of time but he was not allowed to. Following the advice of Luigi Giussani, in summer 1969 Scola moved to the seminary of the Diocese of Teramo-Atri where he studied one year. On 18 July 1970 Scola was ordained to the priesthood in Teramo by Bishop Abele Conigli.
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