Carlo Confalonieri

His Eminence Carlo Confalonieri
Dean of the College of Cardinals
Appointed	12 December 1977
Term ended	1 August 1986
Predecessor	Luigi Traglia
Successor	Agnelo Rossi
Other posts	Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina (1972-1986) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (1977-1986)
Orders
Ordination	18 March 1916 by Andrea Ferrari
Consecration	4 May 1941 by Pope Pius XII
Created Cardinal	15 December 1958 by Pope John XXIII
Rank	Cardinal-Priest (1958-1972) Cardinal-Bishop (1972-1986)
Personal details
Birth name	Carlo Confalonieri
Born	(1893-07-25)25 July 1893 Seveso, Kingdom of Italy
Died	1 August 1986(1986-08-01) (aged 93) Rome, Italy
Buried	Seveso
Nationality	Italian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Previous post	Archbishop of L'Aquila (1941-1950) Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum (1950-1958) Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities (1950-1958) Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (1958-1972) Archpriest of the Liberian Basilica (1959-1973) President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (1961-1967) Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (1961-1965) President of the Commission of Cardinals for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompeii and Loreto (1962-1969) Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops (1965-1967) Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops (1967-1973) President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (1969-1973) President of the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral of Emigration and Tourism (1970-1973) Cardinal Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals (1974-1977)
Motto	Regnum tuum Domine (Your kingdom)
Coat of arms

Styles of Carlo Confalonieri
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Carlo Confalonieri (25 July 1893 – 1 August 1986) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops from 1967 to 1973, and Dean of the College of Cardinals from 1977 until his death. Confalonieri was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Confalonieri was born in Seveso. His father was cabinet-maker. Carlo was baptized by Fr. Ambrogio Sirtori the next day, on 26 July. Confirmed on 13 February 1901, Confalonieri received his first Communion on 5 May 1904. He entered the seminary in Seveso in 1904, and then archdiocesan seminary of Monza in 1909. After studying at a Milanese lyceum, he went to Rome to attend the Pontifical Seminary Ss. Ambrogio e Carlo and the Pontifical Gregorian University (from where he obtained his bachelor's degree in theology in 1913). Confalonieri then served in World War I from 1914 to 1916.

He entered the ranks of the clergy upon receiving the tonsure from Andrea Ferrari on 14 June 1912. Confalonieri was eventually ordained to the priesthood on 18 March 1916 by Cardinal Ferrari. After working in the Italian Army and Milan, he was named private secretary to Achille Ratti in 1921. Confalonieri travelled with Ratti to Rome as his attendant, or conclavist, for the 1922 papal conclave, at which the Cardinal was elected to the papacy as Pius XI. He continued to serve as Ratti's secretary until the Pope's death in 1939, and during that period he was raised to the rank of Monsignor (7 February 1922), Protonotary Apostolic (24 December 1935), and canon of St. Peter's Basilica (1935). Confalonieri was intended to be appointed Substitute, or Deputy, Secretary of State in 1937, but the position instead went to Giovanni Battista Montini. Moreover, when Pope Pius XII invited Confalonieri to become Archbishop of Modena and Abbot of Nonantola on 16 December 1939, he declined.

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