Login Sitemap
The Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus
Grand Magesterium
Carlo Cardinal Furno
  • Born at Bairo Canavese (Turin) in the diocese of Ivrea: 2 December 1921
  • Secondary education: Diocesan College, Ivrea
  • Higher education: philosophy & theology at the Diocesan Seminarv, Ivrea
  • Ordained priest: 25 June 1944
  • Assistant Parish Priest at Ozegna (Turin) for 3 years
  • Faculty of Theology at the Salesian Pontifical University (TurinCrocetta) for 1 year
  • Studied Law at the Lateran Pontifical University: Degree in "utroque iure", April 1953
  • Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (1951-1953) · Attache, then
  • Secretary to the Nunciature in Colombia (1953-1957)
  • Secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Ecuador (1957-1960)
  • Secretary to the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem ('1960-19'02)
  • Served with the Secretary of State - Division for Special Ecclesiastical Affairs - responsibility for Palestine and the Middle East (1962-1973) ·
  • Professor at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (1966-1973)
  • Titular Archbishop of Abari and Apostolic Nuncio in Peru: 1 August 1973
  • 1973-1978: Apostolic Nuncio, Peru
  • 1978-1982:
  • Apostolic Nuncio, Lebanon
  • 1982-1992: Apostolic Nuncio, Brazil
  • 1992-1994: Apostolic Nuncio, Italy
  • 26 November 1994: appointed Cardinal
  • 21 December 1995: appointed Grand Master of the EOHSJ
  • Cardinal Furno is a Member of the Council of the Second Division of the Office of the Secretary of State, of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, of the Congregation for Bishops, of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of the Peoples and of the Supervisory Commission of Cardinals for the I.O.R
  • 27 June 2007 Retired as Grand Master of the Equestrian Order