Antonio Cardinal Samore

In 1950 he was ordained as a Titular Archbishop and appointed the Nuncio to Colombia . He returned to Rome , to serve in the Roman Curia in 1953 and was made a Cardinal-Priest by Pope Paul in the Consistory of 1967 . The next year, Pope Paul named him the Prefect of the Congregation For The Discipline Of The Sacraments . In 1974 he was appointed Archivist for the Vatican Secret Archives and Librarian for the Vatican Library . Later that year, Pope Paul elevated Samoré to Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto.

In 1977 - 1978 , he acted as a representative for Pope John Paul II to operate a mediation between Chile and Argentina , in the brink of war, because of a disagreement concerning the ownership of the strategic Picton, Lennox And Nueva islands.

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