Antonio Magnoni (13 June 1919 – 18 March 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent forty years of his fifty-year career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, interrupted for a ten-year posting in the Roman Curia.
Antonio Magnoni was born on 13 June 1919 in Nonantola, Italy, the youngest of eleven children.
[1] He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was first assigned to the nunciature in Costa Rica on 1 March 1954, and then in Belgium and Chile.
[citation needed] On 8 April 1970, he became undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
[3] He received his episcopal consecration in 1 June 1980 from Cardinal James Robert Knox.