Carlo Margotti (22 April 1891 – 31 July 1951) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia, served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, and was Archbishop of Gorizia and Gradisca for seventeen years.
[1] For part of that time, from October 1915 to September 1919, he also served in the Italian army using his knowledge of Slavic languages to censor mail.
[2] He taught at the Bologna seminary for two years and in October 1921 joined the staff of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches as secretary of its Russian section.
He tried, with limited success, to meet the government's demands for imposing the Italian language against the resistance of his Slovene clergy.
He returned after the end of World War II to an archdiocese that had lost almost two-thirds of its area with the redrawing of national boundaries.