Ermenegildo Florit

Ermenegildo Florit (5 July 1901 – 8 December 1985) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1962 to 1977, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

His Eminence Ermenegildo Florit
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Florence
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Florence
See	Florence
Appointed	9 March 1962
Term ended	3 June 1977
Predecessor	Elia Dalla Costa
Successor	Giovanni Benelli
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum (1965–85)
Orders
Ordination	11 April 1925
Consecration	12 September 1954 by Clemente Micara
Created cardinal	22 February 1965 by Pope Paul VI
Rank	Cardinal-priest
Personal details
Born	Ermenegildo Florit (1901-07-05)5 July 1901 Fagagna, Kingdom of Italy
Died	8 December 1985(1985-12-08) (aged 84) Florence, Italy
Previous post(s)	Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Syria (1954–62) Coadjutor Archbishop of Florence (1954–62)
Alma mater	Pontifical Roman Seminary Pontifical Biblical Institute Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Incrementum dat Deus
Coat of arms

Styles of Ermenegildo Florit
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Florence (emeritus)

Biography

Ermenegildo Florit was born in Fagagna, and attended the seminary in Udine, the Pontifical Roman Seminary, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Before finishing his studies in 1927, he was ordained to the priesthood on 11 April 1925. Florit served as a professor (1929–1954) and later the dean of theology and vice-rector (1951–1954) at the Pontifical Lateran University, while also doing pastoral work in Rome. In 1951, he was made a canon of St. Mark's Basilica and, on 21 August, a domestic prelate of his holiness.

On 12 July 1954, Florit was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Florence and Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Syria. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 12 September from Cardinal Clemente Micara, with Archbishop Luigi Traglia and Bishop Emilio Pizzoni serving as co-consecrators, in the Lateran Basilica. Florit succeeded the late Elia Dalla Costa as Archbishop of Florence on 9 March 1962, and then attended the Second Vatican Council until 1965. During the council, he was heavily involved with the drafting of Dei verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation.^[1]

Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum in the consistory of 22 February 1965. In 1968, the cardinal engaged in a dispute with the popular Florentine priest Enzo Mazzi, whose rebellious attitude the former saw as a threat to "ecclesiastical unity".^[2] Resigning as Florence's archbishop on 3 June 1977, Florit was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively.

He died in Florence, at age 84, and is buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore.

References

1. Alberigo, Giuseppe & Komonchak, Joseph A. (2006). A Brief History of Vatican II. Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1570756382
2. . Time. 27 December 1968.

External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Elia Dalla Costa	Archbishop of Florence 1962–1977	Succeeded by Giovanni Benelli