• 22 Dec, 2024

Cardinal Parolin to present book on Cardinal Costantini & China

Cardinal Parolin to present book on Cardinal Costantini & China

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will present a new book on Cardinal Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome on 20 June.

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will present the work 'Cardinal Celso Costantini and China - Constructor of a 'bridge' between the East and West," at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome on Thursday, 20 June. The volume was edited by Msgr. Bruno Fabio Pighin, an Italian historian and Episcopal Delegate in the postulation of the cause of beatification and canonisation of Cardinal Celso Costantini (1876-1958), the first Apostolic Delegate to China, and published in Italian by Marcianum Press. Alongside Cardinal Parolin, those speaking will include the Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization's Section for 'First Evangelization' and new particular Churches, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, and the Secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta.

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