Ottavio De Liva (10 June 1911 – 23 August 1965) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Early in his career, in 1950, he was expelled from Czechoslovakia as part of the young Communist government's campaign to exercise control over the Church.
Biography
Ottavio De Liva was born on 10 June 1911 in the town of Sevegliano, Bagnaria Arsa, Province of Udine, Italy, the sixth of seven children.[1] He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Udine on 8 July 1934.[2]
In 1950, during a period of intense conflict between the Church and the government of Czechoslovakia, De Liva, though only the secretary, was the last Vatican diplomat remaining in the nunciature. He therefore acted on behalf of the nunciature there for eight months as the government delayed approving a visa to allow the newly appointed chargé d’affaires to enter the country. The government launched a campaign of press denunciations against him in late February. On 16 March, the government ordered him to leave the country within three days; it accused him of "subversive, anti-state activity", staging phony miracles, interfering in internal affairs, and "misusing his official position". He had visited Prague Archbishop Josef Beran, under house arrest, repeatedly over several months and made another visit immediately upon receiving the order to quit the country. At the time, the New York Times described De Liva as "a 39-year-old rotund, mild-mannered Italian from Udine". In a demonstration of support, much of the diplomatic corps in Prague saw him off at the airport.[4][5][6]
^Schmidt, Dana Adams (17 March 1950). "Lone Vatican Aide Ousted by Prague". New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
^Schmidt, Dana Adams (19 March 1950). "Prague Departure Cuts Vatican Link". New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
^De Marchi, Giuseppe (1957). Le nunziature apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 (in Italian). Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 84.
^Barry, Coleman Janes (1969). American Nuncio: Cardinal Aloisius Muench. Saint John's University Press. p. 90. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
^Acta Apostolicae Sedis(PDF). Vol. LIV. 1962. p. 412. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^Steenbrink, Karel (2015). Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945–2010. Brill. pp. 417–8. ISBN9789004285422. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^Acta Apostolicae Sedis(PDF). Vol. LVII. 1965. p. 752. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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