(24 March 1887 – 17 September 1950) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as an educator and superior of the Vincentians until 1936 and then in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
[1] After the war he returned to teaching and began his fifteen years in charge of the Vincentians' principal Italian-language publication, the Annali della Mission, moving its operations to Rome, where he directed the Pontifical Liturgical Academy and as editor transformed Ephemerides Liturgicae, the oldest international Catholic journal regarding the liturgy, a publication that had close links to the Congregation for Rites.
There he initiated a revival of studies devoted to Thomas Aquinas and undertook the translation into Italian of the works of the founder of the Congregation of the Mission, St Vincent de Paul, as well as the expansion of its science program and art gallery.
[1][3] On 7 March 1936, Pope Pius XI appointed him a titular archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to Iran.
He received his episcopal consecration on 24 May 1936 at the hands of the Secretary of State Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli.