Frediano Giannini OFM (16 June 1861 – 25 October 1939) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to Syria from 1936 to 1947.
[1] He joined the Franciscans on 8 August 1876, took his final vows on 22 November 1881, and was ordained a priest of the Order of Friars Minor on 21 December 1883.
He received his episcopal consecration on 5 March 1905 from Archbishop Aurelio Briante, Apostolic Delegate to Egypt.
With the changing political jurisdictions occurring during the First World War, Giannini, along with his colleague Angelo Dolci, Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople, disputed Ottoman attempts to confiscate Church properties as if they were French-owned and contended that the Holy See was the owner of the properties in the care of the Custody of the Holy Land.
[5] On 12 February 1936, Pope Pius XI named him Vice Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.