Silvio Oddi

He was an actor and writer, known for Death of the Virgin (2009) and Balla che ti passa (2005).

He died on 29 June 2001 in Cortemaggiore and was buried in the parish church of Morfasso.

Silvio Oddi was born on September 9, 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

He took part in the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Pope Paul VI created him a cardinal on 28 April 1969, assigning to him the titular church of Sant'Agata dei Goti. He named him Papal Legate for the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi and gave him responsibility for the shrine of Loreto as well. Pope John Paul II named him Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy on 28 September 1979. He retired at the age of 75 upon the appointment of his successor Antonio Innocenti on 9 January 1986. In 1989 he attended, as Papal Legate, the funeral of Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

He was named Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt on 11 January 1957. He was named Nuncio to Belgium and to Luxembourg on 17 May 1962.

On 30 July 1953, Pope Pius XII named him Titular Bishop of Mesembria and Apostolic Delegate for Palestine, Transjordan and Cyprus. On 27 September of the same year, he received his episcopal ordination from Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII.

He became the senior official, chargé d’affaires, of the Apostolic Nunciature to Yugoslavia in 1951. When the Vatican stonewalled the government's attempt to negotiate an agreement and instead Pope Pius XII made the regime's most prominent critic, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, a cardinal, the government expelled Oddi on 17 December 1952.

Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi (14 November 1910 – 29 June 2001) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. He became a cardinal in 1969 and headed the Congregation for the Clergy from 1979 to 1986.